A new book available from FORT!/da?.A diificult to characterize offering from Mr. Derek Pasquill (but stylistically let's call it Benjaminian in at least it's pulling of quotes to illuminate a somewhat hidden center) but entries organized encyclopedically
Herewith a few pages:
Fastners Pasquill
An A to Z of the Islamic Prosthesis framed by diverse material
'Why is it all so important to you, Apthorpe?'
'My dear fellow, it’s taken me years to collect.'
'Yes, but what’s in it?'
'That, old man, is not an easy question to answer in one word.'
Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
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Contents
A1: 'Azm – Islam's civilizing mission
B1: Baldwin's Effect – culture genetics
B2: Balthasar's Feast – nocturnorama
B3: Bamboccianti – divine truths probed through indirect means
B4: Bathing – based on reality
B5: Battlefield – shaping
B6: Belly Laugh – laughter, Enlightenment stage
B7: Berserkr – ecstatic battle fury
B8: Biffed – attack, element of surprise
B9: Blasphemous Lingering – upward striving
B10: Brazil – nausea, ontic greed
B11: Breenbergh – fuses figures and landscape into a smooth unity
B12: Bricklaying – concerted but unregimented enterprise
B13: Brocken – Coleridge, upward striving
B14: Buffo – animeme bites man
B15: Bum Bil Bee – repeating act, ashes to ashes
B16: Bumbles – unimaginable rise of Islamism
B17: Bumptious Buckeen - Queneau
