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Ghost Writer - Tim Mackintosh-Smith

This book claims to be one of those 'not absolutely dead things'. A talking book. It talks in the first person, about its birth in Cairo (1204), its author (Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Ali) and its adventurous journey from Aleppo to the Bodleian library in Oxford. It is a manuscript recounting its story, talking about itself being written: 'I'm not the final copy' it mentions. So who's the ghost? the author of the manuscript? the talking book? or the author of the talking book? the book things of itself as a ghost 'we are the voices of the dead, audible and articulate. We don't expect to be listened to; but we still want to be heard.'

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Just a thought

Umberto Eco died recently (19/02/16) His books echo his soul.

Design as Art - Bruno Munari

useless machines, are they really machines? and what makes them become useless? differences between the status of art

Exercise de style - Raymond Queneau

http://www.arjandenooy.com/work/exercises-in-style/ This is a great example of reusing the method with photography!