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Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on February 20, 2020 at 3:33pm

On tearing books: After feeling like you, Martha, for many decades, I now find it almost easy, using only old books that are literally falling apart. If they're not readable and not salable, why not give them new life? Is how I see it now. I'm in love with them (and also with the ones on my shelves -- or in piles, yes -- which are not falling apart and not to be used in art.) Still, there IS pain on discovering a book in its death throes! But then the rebirth in other forms takes that away.

I found Ulysses both funny and heavy, and loved Molly's ending soliloquy most of all. Could never read the whole book again, however. ... 

Comment by Mail Art Martha on February 20, 2020 at 9:52am

Yes that is the general consensus Judi, but then I am  peculiar. Probably it is the length of it that puts people off but as I am reading it in my tablet I do not notice. Until the tablet falls on my nose when I fall asleep reading in bed.

Comment by Judith Dagan on February 20, 2020 at 9:25am

Strange.... I found Ulysses kinda heavy.  Pun intended

Comment by Mail Art Martha on February 20, 2020 at 6:51am

I had such hopes for this group, but it seems to have gone to sleep. As I said, I could not tear a book but much of my artmaking is based on, quotes or otherwise owes its existence to something I read.
There is the problem, or perhaps it is not a problem, that I have several books on the go at the same time, always. One of them is Ulysses by James Joice. Am I alone in finding it it very funny?

Comment by Mail Art Martha on October 5, 2019 at 7:11pm

Really I joined because there are things that intrigue me in relation to books and how they are used.

Do you bookie people keep them in neat piles, or not so neat perhaps, in one room? Or is the term 'pile' used metaphorically? My 'pile' is distributed all over the house plus there are ebooks that lurk in my tablet. Unread or semi read as they might be.

I said semi read because I always have several books on the go at the same time. This is to suit my mood, time of the day, or night, place and wether I am lucid enough to understand what I read.

I may have misunderstood the purpose of this group. Is it about tearing up books to make mail art? Oh! I could never do that!

I have used my old copy of Cannery Row but only because I found it had completely desintegrated all by itself

Comment by Mail Art Martha on October 5, 2019 at 6:49pm

Suppa duppa abstract asemic piece Nancy!  Thank you a joy to see.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on August 2, 2019 at 9:31pm

Fike, I'd like to have seen it that way too, but alas. Let me know the secret if you discover it, ok?

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on August 1, 2019 at 12:40pm

Ooooooh! I'd like to have been a mouse in your ceiling moulding to watch creation of this piece with it's sharp-fine lines and blobby droozly splats'n'drips!

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on August 1, 2019 at 12:36pm

Asemic piece, I think, from a month or two ago, titled Bookcase:

Comment by Alan Brignull on August 1, 2019 at 9:41am

My Tsundoku pile contains a book called "The Anatomy of Bibliomania" ...

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