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pinkwater is god

topic posted Wed, November 19, 2003 - 12:15 PM by  ian23 		Share/Save/Bookmark
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for many years, my prized possession was a (co-owned) copy of Young Adult Novel which had the inside title page hand-colored by the author.

my friend and I had earned this mighty treasure by compiling a list of all his books to that date, under his various pseudonyms.

so happy I found this tribe, I need to go find a copy of 'Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars' now...
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    Re: pinkwater is god

    Wed, November 19, 2003 - 1:54 PM
    Young Adult Novel is the only one I haven't read. My library had it on the shelf for a nanosecond and I haven't seen it since. What's it about?
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    • ian23
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      Re: pinkwater is god

      Fri, January 2, 2004 - 11:25 AM
      oooooooh!

      run right out and read it!

      It's sort of an object lesson in Dada fiction, while exploring the paths of several high school boys who perform various 'art-crimes' or 'art-actions' which invariably get closer and closer to shaping their reality, for better or for worse...

      it's the funniest precursor to the matrix, or homage to surrealism, I've ever run across....
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        Re: pinkwater is god

        Fri, January 2, 2004 - 11:33 AM
        Agree in the strongest possible terms -- read it now, now, now! And know that I'm sitting here stewing in envy, bemoaning the fact that I can never again read that book for the first time...
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        • Re: pinkwater is god

          Fri, January 2, 2004 - 12:20 PM
          YAN corrupted me as far as art is concerned. So much packed into there.

          although I had figured a lot of the DaDa stuff out over the years (I dunno, call me stupid, but there was no way I could connect the toilet prank to Marcel Duchamp [whom I >had< heard of] in high school).... but when I eventually found out that the "[Msr. X] n'existe pas" thing was actually done in Paris in the 50s (60s?) I was astounded.

          Mr. Pinkwater, you are a fiend, sir! A devil, and a god--yea, verily.
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