【Secret Confessions (2025) Tubong Lugaw Episode 47】
The Secret Confessions (2025) Tubong Lugaw Episode 47Suffering of Books
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Alexis Arnold, San Francisco Phone Book, 2013.
For centuries, books have enjoyed the benefits conferred on inanimate objects, chief among which is their immunity to pain. So lucky they are, so smug, sitting painlessly on their shelves, passing the time. But it is winter, and it is cold, and now our books must freeze as their readers do.
To that end, Colossal has introduced me to the work of Alexis Arnold, who, in her Crystallized Book series, dips found books in a borax solution (is this proprietary? Can I buy some?) that freezes, crystallizes, destroys, or preserves them—whichever verb suits your fancy. Arnold aims to return books to a kind of prelapsarian state as aesthetic, functionless objects, unburdened by the complications of text. Her frozen books, she writes, are “artifacts or geologic specimens imbued with the history of time, use, and nostalgia. The series was prompted by repeatedly finding boxes of discarded books, by the onset of e-books, and by the shuttering of bookstores.”
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Linux: The Complete Manual, 2013.
All’s Well That Ends Well, 2014.
Dan Piepenbring is the web editor of The Paris Review.
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