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What if Barbelith was a book...

 
 
nameless oxymoron
06:53 / 21.06.04
Assume for a moment that an extremely wealthy and insane publisher decided to print everything from the end of last year and back. The font size and page format would of course have a large impact, but in general terms, how large do you think the whole of it would be? Are there enough trees to even make a copy? How large would a building have to be to even hold it? Would anyone buy it? Could anyone buy it?
 
 
Baz Auckland
12:27 / 21.06.04
...[quick look].... there's 60 pages of Conversation between last June 21st and today, so yes, it would be a very large book. It would be a nice bookshelf though. Like a fancy encyclopedia, but much more entertaining.
 
 
*
12:54 / 21.06.04
Black leather binding with gold-embossed occult symbols which, if tilted slightly, form the image of a load of grinning philosophy students standing around in knee-socks wanking off. If we're gonna do it, let's do it right. Now to find the publisher...
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
23:28 / 09.07.04
what a crazy/cool idea. i imagine it would be an encyclopaedia cum scrapbook, all the exuberant posters would have their own fonts. everything Haus wrote would probably be underlined in red.

(damn shame Dorling Kindersley got bought by Pearson.)
 
 
The Prince of All Lies
00:37 / 10.07.04
Damn, now I want a Barbe-book...
one with a glossy Alan Lee cover
 
 
the cat's iao
03:42 / 10.07.04
It would fuel a fire that would keep you warm the whole winter long...
 
  
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