2008-12 (collected 2012) / Ebook / 61 pages / UK
****
"I'm a tautology lover, therefore I love tautologies."
I've abandoned as many Calvino books as I've made it through, knowing my place. I hadn't noticed that these were tributes when some of them snuck into earlier collections, but in their mathematical precision and self-awareness, it makes sense. More sense than I could make of the Cosmicomics.
I've abandoned as many Calvino books as I've made it through, knowing my place. I hadn't noticed that these were tributes when some of them snuck into earlier collections, but in their mathematical precision and self-awareness, it makes sense. More sense than I could make of the Cosmicomics.
Fave: 'Climbing the Tallest Tree in the World'
2008 / Ebook / 173 pages / USA
***
The most apologetic entry in the series this side of the Celine Dion essay, the track-by-track analysis did seem particularly pointless this time around, but interviews with the band explain the sex magick connections and other depths that won't be apparent to normie squares who think it's just some boring noise or whatever.
1991 / Ebook / 40 pages / USA
**
With the USSR dissolving around them, you'd think that even a NASA publication would give more acknowledgement to the other side of the story than a fleeting namecheck of Sputnik, but I guess they wanted to keep stoking the national pride to help them fulfil the prediction of the next 30 years of space missions being just as exciting as the first. Better get a move on.
1970-84 (collected 1985) / Ebook / 48 pages / USA
**
Fucked-up industrial nightmares, classical perversions and indecent imagery I'd rather not have made myself endure, with a brief biography revealing why he's like this.
1992 / Ebook / 128 pages / UK
**
Dull correspondence, contemporary reviews and modern-day autograph hunting take up most of the book before the music is touched on, and that doesn't prove to be especially insightful beyond the connections between the pieces.
