DANGEROUS MATERIALS
by John Elmslie.
Toronto], privately published, 1983. 2 unique copies numbered & signed in black marker on last panel.
approx.4-7/8 x 3-1/4, 8 sheets brown corrugated cardboard, all printed black marker holograph rectos only, in a pile held by a brown rubber band.
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• 2nd edition, Spider Plots In Rat-Holes, 1984
a note on the extremely unfortunate state of my copy of this unique item:
still back in Toronto, this had been stored in a metal drawer along with other publications-in-the-form-of-objects. among the things in there was a can of smoked lizard lips – a can of sardines, really, wrapped in a paper wrapper misidentifying the contents as smoked lizard lips, one of at least a case of the things prepared as props for M.B.Duggan's film Smoked Lizard Lips. this was kept right near where we slept &, one morning, we awoke to quite the reek emanating from the drawer, accompanied by a guilty look on our daughter Mlina's face. the top 2 sheets of the set are thoroughly impregnated with sardine-oil, the 3rd partially, the rest're OK & look pretty much as they did in '83 (&, since this occurred (late '8os/early'9os), the set now again smells like cardboard instead of dead fish).
DANGEROUS MATERIALS
by John Elmslie.
Toronto], privately published, 1983. 2 unique copies numbered & signed in black marker on last panel.
approx.4-7/8 x 3-1/4, 8 sheets brown corrugated cardboard, all printed black marker holograph rectos only, in a pile held by a brown rubber band.
___________________________
• 2nd edition, Spider Plots In Rat-Holes, 1984
a note on the extremely unfortunate state of my copy of this unique item:
still back in Toronto, this had been stored in a metal drawer along with other publications-in-the-form-of-objects. among the things in there was a can of smoked lizard lips – a can of sardines, really, wrapped in a paper wrapper misidentifying the contents as smoked lizard lips, one of at least a case of the things prepared as props for M.B.Duggan's film Smoked Lizard Lips. this was kept right near where we slept &, one morning, we awoke to quite the reek emanating from the drawer, accompanied by a guilty look on our daughter Mlina's face. the top 2 sheets of the set are thoroughly impregnated with sardine-oil, the 3rd partially, the rest're OK & look pretty much as they did in '83 (&, since this occurred (late '8os/early'9os), the set now again smells like cardboard instead of dead fish).