Pathetic fallacy from allusive typography to Cancel Culture. An extrapolation from word-fetishism in Edmund Wilson's Night Thoughts

by Gallo, Philip

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[Saint Paul]: Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press, 2023. Edition limited to 31 copies signed by Gallo, press numbered 1-26 and 5 lettered A-E; 8vo, pp. [34]; frontispiece printed in silver, "from Bric-A-Brac [J Swift] and first appearance of Hermetic Press imprint :: 1966," the whole printed in red, blue, green, and black, in roman and cyrillic type, on Johannot, with extracts from Montaigne, William Massey, John Ruskin, Laurence Sterne, Ralph Ellison, and Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice Adventures in Wonderland; stiff card wrappers with black dust jacket, stamped in silver, in a plexiglas slipcase. An overtly political book, on the "limitations, if not the failings of Cancel Culture.

• Publisher: Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press
• Year: 2023
• Binding: unknown

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