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DECYFRING LE SONY'R RA by Klaus Detlef Thiel |
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For higher resolution or printed copies, please contact the webmaster Klaus Detlef Thiel, born 1957 in Neuwied, Rhine, studied philosophy and history at Trier University, Ph. D., lives in Wiesbaden. Published a book on Jacques Derrida (1990), another one on Plato (1993), numerous essays and reviews on Thomas of Aquino, Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, Francis Bacon, Kant, Husserl, Jan Patocka, Sun Ra and others. Focuses on theory and history of writing. At present, together with Hartmut Geerken, he is working on a 'forgotten' German philosopher and satirist, Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona, preparing a comprehensive bibliography and several editions: Kant for Children (1924), reprint Hildesheim/New York 2004; Kant contra Einstein (1932), reprint Wartaweil 2005. In his edition swumfsl Thiel also published some twenty booklets of experimental poetry, in German, English, Latin etc. A few words on this project -
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Cribs slips of paper, secret messages, stiff, cassibers, pamphlets, invectives - papers with written printed painted things on it, but multiplied in a different way, through other channels. Remember Basho ? "Old pond. A frog jumps in. Plop !" - In a language now dead for centuries there is a word that does not only mean or signify this Plop! It describes the whole situation, it evokes the scene: swumfsl! Can you pronounce this ? The Goths, marching from the East and North through Italy to Spain, used this word for 'pond' - If Literature is the ocean, then the edition swumfsl is a pond, pre- even para-literary. You can throw in everything, you will not get anything out of it - and in spite of this it gives a damn on literature etc. In Slavic, not Slavish, language, samisdat means published by the author him/herself, at one's own expense. This is the very beginning of the so called age of Gutenberg. All old books were conceived this way, Klopstock 1774, Poe 1845 - In the 1970's the government of Tasmania banned the publication of its list of banned publications. Brian Miller, minister of justice, declared he found the 2000 titles almost scandalous - But what about all those publications that don't manage to appear on such a list ? |