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foew&ombwhnw
foew&ombwhnw, by Dick Higgins, was published in 1969 by Something Else Press. The title was an acronym for "freaked-out electronic wizards & other marvellous bartenders who have no wings."The design of the book was unusual. It was made to look like a prayer book, with black cover and thin pages. Inside, the text was divided into four columns. To read the book in order you had to first read all the left-hand columns, then all the second-to-left columns, etc.
The book itself was a collection of essays, plays, and poems. Or, as Higgins described it, "a grammar of the mind and a phenomenology of love and a science of the arts as seen by a stalker of the wild mushroom."
Copies of it generally go for over $100, for anyone interested in adding it to their collection of weird books.
More info: DickHiggins.org
source: printedmatter.org
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 10, 2022 -
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Category: Literature, Books, 1960s
Teach your wife to be a widow
Donald L. Rogers was financial editor of the New York Herald Tribune. He originally wrote "Teach your wife to be a widow" as an article for Collier's Magazine, and later expanded it into a book (1952).
The article (and book) urged husbands to educate their wives about finances, so that in case the husband died the wife wouldn't end up going destitute.
I think Jean Mayer's article, "How to murder your husband," pairs particularly well with it. Both appeared in the 1981 Reader's Digest collection, Love and Marriage.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 04, 2022 -
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Category: Money, Husbands, Wives, Books, Marriage
Sun Ra Cover Art Book
Looks like a great Xmas present for WU-vies.Here's the publisher's page, with the Amazon link below.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 01, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Eccentrics, Holidays, Music, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Books
Cheese Problems Solved
If you've got cheese problems, this is the book you need.More info: Science Direct
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 12, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Books
The Blood Book by John Bingley Garland
Read the fully story here, with all the illos.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 28, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Outsider Art, Books, Nineteenth Century, Blood
Magical Healing Powers of Blue Light
Read the whole thing here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 26, 2022 -
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Books, Nineteenth Century
Kings Dethroned
Did you know our Sun was only 13,000 miles distant?Read it here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 25, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Books
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
Are you ever at a loss for words? Then this book is for you!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 02, 2022 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Rhetoric, Eloquence, Public Speaking, and Vocabulary, Books, 1910s
Cannery Row in a can
Created by artists Peter and Donna Thomas in 2003.Info from UW Milwaukee library:
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 17, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Books
How to get a teenage boy
"step-by-step stalking strategy"More info: flashbak.com
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 14, 2022 -
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Category: Teenagers, Books, 1960s, Love & Romance
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