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Somebody would smuggle one in, but you didn’t know that person. You asked around, and somebody would give you a cassette: a copy of a copy of a copy.
—Metallica Fan in Bucharest on finding Metallica releases in the early 1980's
‘But,’ said the Empress, ‘there is some likeness between maggots and cheese, for cheese has no blood, nor maggots neither; besides, they have almost the same taste which cheese has.’ ‘This proves nothing,’ answered they, ‘for maggots have a visible, local, progressive motion which cheese hath not.’ The Empress replied that when all the cheese was turned into maggots it might be said to have local, progressive motion. They answered that when the cheese by its own figurative motions were changed into maggots it was no more cheese.
– Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666)
The Invisible Library, a collection of imaginary books cited referenced in real books.
(↝via Crowley)
Implicasphere is an occasional mini-publication that seeks to unearth and revive compelling, illuminating and curious ideas in the form of image and text fragments taken unadulterated from fields as diverse as folk craft, nuclear physics, metaphysical poetry, pulp novels, linguistics, criminology, film noir and astrology. Each issue takes the form of a single printed broadsheet and has as its theme an everyday word that seems direct and concrete: mice, string, the nose.
Since Implicasphere aims to resurrect overlooked and curious things that have evolved in the bell jar of their own peculiar history, on principle, we never commission or use content created specially for us.
Paradigm, now defunct, was the infrequently published journal of the Textbook Colloquium promoting the interdisciplinary study of textbooks of all kinds.
