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Dedication and Acknowledgements
Excerpts from Table 41 are available here, on this Web page: Table One, Table Two.
If you would like your own copy, you may purchase one here.
Here is a Table of Contents for Table 41.
Dedication and Acknowledgements
Gott versprach sich, als er den Menschen schuf.
God misspoke when he created the human being.
—Elias Canetti
Je edler ein Ding in seiner Vollkommenheit, desto grässlicher in seiner Verwesung.
The nobler a thing in its perfection, the more hideous it will be in its decomposition.
—Moses Mendelssohn, quoting a ‘Hebraic writer’
Dedicated to Joseph Suglia
Thanks to D.H. Lawrence, Roland Topor, J.G. Ballard, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, William Shakespeare, Martin Amis, Paul Valéry, Daphne du Maurier, Will Self, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, Gore Vidal, John Wyndham, Richard Matheson, John Milton, Ambrose Bierce, Georg Trakl, Witold Gombrowicz, Henrik Ibsen, Georges Perec, Roald Dahl, Elias Canetti, Frank Wedekind, Epictetus, H.L. Mencken, Arthur Schnitzler, Michel Leiris.
Reference is made to “Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor” by Sylvia Plath, “Der Panther” by Rainer Maria Rilke, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented by Thomas Hardy, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William Butler Yeats, “Decorative Art in America” by Oscar Wilde, “Voyages” by Hart Crane, and the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.
Copyright 2019 by Joseph Suglia
Dear friends,
My cousin K. and my internet friend “Moments” have persuaded me to publish my masterpiece Table 41 as a physical book. This will happen sometime in 2018 or 2019.
The novel will be self-published, unlike my previous work, which was released by academic presses and small presses. Who cares? The publishing elite is dead, and the stigma with which self-published writing was once inscribed has been lasered away.
In the meantime, please read or re-read the tables [below] and comment upon them.
The first forty-one readers who publish Amazon reviews of the book will receive free physical copies. I only ask that the reviews not be scurrilous (honest reviews are welcome).
Please watch the video below, which contains a dramatization of one of the passages from the book.
Wishing you the best,
Joseph Suglia