or Against Nature; a new translation of A Rebours (Alternately translated as "Against the Grain") by JK Huysmans
Selling Price: I'm not certain but I'm sure I lost $1.00 on the sale Is this the turning point?
As of last month it was over a year later and this project was still running itself nicely. Only making a couple of dollars a month but it was still nice to see the shipping notification show up in my inbox occasionally.
I think I read most of the first two Cornelius books. They're an interesting mix of Spi-Fi fantasizing and a typical New Wave SF fondness for ennui and curious stylistic experiments. Moorcock calls it a quartet instead of a quadrilogy: it's not one long story, it's the same story told four times with minor alterations. In the first one super spy Jerry Cornelius is albino, but in the second he's black. Also in each iteration reality seems to be falling apart more severely.
I read these quite a while ago, but Jerry is a space captain in the Moorcock book I'm reading by audiobook now, Doctor Who and the Coming of the Terraphiles, which strikes me as a bit pornographic now that I've typed it out. Yes, Jerry's in this story too I'm told, but I havent gotten there yet. Moorcock can do that, as he's built a huge mythology around elevating his characters to archetypes.
Cornelius is recommended, but one is enough for the most part. As for his venture in the Whoniverse, a subject close to my own heart, well, it's a bit silly.
[Thanks to Prof. Faustaff for fact-checking. ]
It's funny, but after over 250 books sold, not a single person ever commented on the bibliomantic scrap of paper tucked inside almost every single one, cannibalized from a Scientology manual in the furtherance of enturbulation through the stochastic forces of the MEST universe.
Grade: | A (Excellent) |
Status: | Sold |
Sentimental Value: Selling Price: | $333.93 $39.98 |
Grade: | B+ (Difficult but mostly worth it) |
Sentimental Value: Current Price: | $99.99 14.94 |
The English traveler is right to regard the office of exhibiting madmen as beyond the most hardened humanity. We have already said so. But all dilemmas afford a remedy. It is the madmen themselves who are entrusted in their lucid intervals with displaying their companions, who, in their turn, return the favor. Thus the keepers of these unfortunate creatures enjoy the profits that the spectacle affords, without indulging in a heartlessness to which, no doubt, they could never de-scend.This became useful as an additional revenue stream after the ineffectual efforts to exert corrective effects on the markets (by incorporating the inmates into a factory for useful work) devolved into a mission to break man's rebellious animal spirit and restore the divine order, based upon the collective acceptance of the curse of human labor. Kind of the same way the Soviets went down.
Grade: | D (Didn't Read) |
Status: | |
Sentimental Value: Current (Sane) Market Value: | $220.00 (which a couple of fools are selling these for) $38.49 |
Grade: | D (Didn't Read) |
Status: | Sold |
Sentimental Value: Actual Selling Price: | $6.99 $1.25 |
Grade: | A (Excellent) |
Status: | For Sale |
Sentimental Value: | $93.23 |
| Grade: | A (Excellent) |
| Status: | For Sale |
| Sentimental Value: | $19.99 |
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