Recebi hoje os livros:
e surpresa das surpresas o livro Rhysop’s Fables “is the one with the title spelled wrongly.”
Aqui o temos em companhia dos seus irmãos mais pequenos.
rhysop’s fables
Sou mesmo um tipo com sorte.
Next item is an autopsy to a poem from the book “The Gloomy Seahorse” by Rhys Hughes.
Why does the poet ask me to go with him to Indonesia? He has no friends and that is why he needs me? Is he afraid to go alone? If he is afraid, is this a reflection of a childhood trauma? An unresolved Oedipus complex? I’m sorry, but I have to refuse. I do not like Indonesia in February and I get sick just from thinking about the Komodo Dragons.
Again the poet reveals that he values his dental hygiene. We must take a toothbrush, and bath salts! Clearly he’s an addict in personal hygiene which reveals an unresolved Oedipus complex. I could argue that even if I go to Indonesia I will only take the toothbrush, but never the bath salts. I like showering.
The poet reveals that we will not pass beyond Borneo!! If so, why ask me to go with him to Indonesia if he doesn’t have enough money for a full ticket? He reveals that he is a liar with this fake invitation. He tries to blame the toaster. We know that it is never the toaster’s guilt, but always the butler’s. This is an unresolved Oedipus complex.
rhys hughes and the jungle picnic!
He states that picnics with blueberry jam in the jungle are uncommon. This sentence shows a disturbing innocence mind, because we never do picnics in the jungle. This demonstrates that the poet did not go far away from home in his childhood. This reveals an unresolved Oedipus complex.
Then he says that we won’t get as far as Java? For the love of God he could decide once and for all. Why did he make a poem without the minimum knowledge of geography. This reveals an unsolved Oedipus complex. He even poses the hypothesis to swim in the sea, but only if the water isn’t cold – he lives in Swansea and he has problems with the cold?
Then I discovered that the poet is a voyeur. His neighbor Polo went shopping and did a good bargain, and that is the envy of our poet who covets his brown bread and jam.
With all this I end up not understanding the reference to Xanadu. The poet could be more specific. We’ll have breakfast in Xanadu or eat Xanadu? And if the latter hypothesis, is Xanadu the jam’s brand? The poet really needs a compass.
Arrived today. It will be read in the comfort of the bed.
the gloomy seahorse
Mais novidades para breve.
he escape!
[…]
Read the poems of Rhys Hughes was quite amusing because I discover a new Rhys Hughes and I could compare his creative progress in each poem.
I suppose that for the poet gather in the same book poems that are temporally distant from each other by more than 10 years has been a complicated task because the Rhys Hughes of today certainly wouldn’t write some of the ancient poems, or doing it they would be written differently – I praise his courage.
“The Gloomy Seahorse” is a book time capsule: in it we have a new/old Rhys Hughes fighting among themselves.
“The Gloomy Seahorse” is a collection of poems that are worth reading because they are a poetic reflection of a master who plays with words and has the luxury of offering in each poem a different flavor.
Just submitted a drabble. The title: “Shy Heahrug”.
For the record “Shy Heahrug” is a anagram with the words Rhys Hughes. More terror than this I can’t imagine.
My drawing and the beautiful words by Rhys Hughes in the book More Than a Feline.
more than a feline
One of my favourite drawings in my recently published illustrated book of cat stories is this clever geometric piece from Paulo Brito. He took the letters in the word CAT and made a drawing from them — of a cat! So I wrote a little poem to accompany it…
Rhys Hughes
I’m so happy with this!!!!
It is not possible to do a normal evaluation of a uncommon book. As such my opinion is not worried about having more than 1000 words or be in real time.
I will autopsy the book to the bone and giving scores for each point.
01. has a cover, but not a dust wrapper (score -10)
02. has a cover with pages to read. is annoying to have a cover with nothing inside (score +10)
03. the main character is a teenager who is not a vampire (score +20)
04. there is also a grandmother, this always gives the “family touch” (score +10)
05. there is action in outer space and beyond, I like it very much (score +10)
06. has many word games which requires to read with great attention, I’m afraid of having missed a pun and that annoys me (score -20)
07. the teenager Jenny is not only flat, but it is also perpendicular, parallel, and even had, as I read the book, a position up to 10%, all depended on my position on the bed, on the couch, on foot – this greatly values a character (score +10)
08. the fact that the book provide, for only $14.75 USD, 13.5 laughter, 23 giggles and a BIG laugh accompanied by sneezing with mucus, especially since it occurred while reading The Young Dictator at the train station of Barcelos; the people looked strangely at me, which is normal because at that time I was a stranger reading a strange book at a not strange train station (score +60)
09. the book has a glossary, I did not like to be left in doubt if I am an adult or an older teen (score -10)
10. and very important the book comes to THE END (score +20)
the young dictator
Total assessment 100. Not bad on a scale of 0 to 100, but not in one from 0 to 1000.
I don’t know drawing. The first image is a example of this. I always tried to draw a cat with the words cat… without success.
So I tried to get something more simple.
word cat
That’s when the drawings? surrounded in blue caught my attention. Would this be the solution?
A few more attempts, but now with a compass and ruler.
word cat
I loved what I got in the right side of the image; so I attacked the Photoshop. I loved the final outcome.
The cover of the ebook The Ironic Fantastic #2 as made by Rhys Hughes and
is the famous pitta bread monster Snagtooth Toasta who appears in my TWISTHORN BELLOW novel. I made this model of him four years ago but he was eaten by a squirrel…
Rhys Hughes via facebook
eaten by a squirrel
I’ve a story in this issue.
The last book by Rhys Hughes, “The Strange Abnormalities of Stringent”, is in fact a asset to any head. It’s like a fly in a soup plate – a new ingredient.
And, since, any powerful mind constantly needs a steady flow of knowledge to be free from the shackles of lethargy this book provides everything: action, adventure, mystery, suspense, twists, turns, science fiction, eroticism, dinosaurs. There is no program on the Discovery channel that provides so much information, misinformation, philosophy, metaphysics – ufa!
With “The Strange Abnormalities of Stringent” Rhys Hughes goes further and drags, so audacious, into the book the reader as part of the story in a way that has never been done.
after reading 125 pages of the book “the strange abnormalities of stringent”
This book even dares break the barriers of space-time; some times hugs, other times attacks the “hole argument”. Be aware, howsoever, that the book isn’t a hole but one whole!
This book:
Unfortunately we can not make a good stew with it, if it were possible it would be using the book to the maximum power of 0.99% (you see the use of the word “it” three times in a sentence!).
At last but not least Stringent absolutely declines any responsibility regarding any usage whatsoever that you may come across with.
Finis.
Here I will start with my online and in almost real time review of the book “The Strange Abnormalities of stringent” by Rhys Hughes. It will be a noble review, with jumps and bumps – as it should be! And will be a review with more than 1000 words… of course.
12h40 – the book has not yet arrived.
14h45 – I asked my mother to call me if I received a parcel from abroad.
15h42 – she has not yet called me.
the strange abnormalities of stringent… in style!
18:10 – My mother fell asleep. And don’t realize that the postman had left a package for me. It’s the mania of the Spanish siesta. I went to check … is the book.
18:15 – I was upset with her. But she told me in double interrogation: “what’s your problem? How could you have started reading the book where you were?” I attacked with a exclamation “This was a disappointment my mother!”
18h16 – I shook my head 10 times.
18h18 – My mother does not understand me! I do not understand my mother and I know her from inside and outside.
18h25 – I went to take a picture … for the style.
18h30 – I’m tired and sweating. The excitement gives me hot flushes. Am I in some sort of male version of menopause?
18h40 – I started drinking a Westmalle Trapist. And I’m looking at the book. I think I’ll just read the book at night.
the strange abnormalities of stringent
22h05 – I lay down on in the bed.
22h06 – I rub the buttocks on the mattress until they are well packed.
22h10 – I am adequately acclimated: candles broadcast a shimmering, creamy and fragrant atmosphere. In another situation I, also, have switched a red light – but I will not have sex with the book … dah!
22h15 – I love the smell of a new book in the morning… at night.
22h17 – I look at the primate of the cover and the idea that I’ve been lately finding many monkeys, especially political monkeys, puts me glum.
22h30 – I reread the title and the word “stringent” makes me think of oranges, and I don’t know why!
22h31 – I’m now in the kitchen squeezing lemons for lemonade – I’m without oranges.
22h40 – I lay down on in the bed.
22h41 – The cover is spectacular. Congratulations to Keith Howell.
22h43 – I stop while reading the phrase “16: capricornus” – wtf I’m Leo!
22h46 – Upset I put the book in my belly and I end up falling asleep.
02h15 – I woke up with a monkey staring at me. Nothing unusual, considering that I already woke up with “things” that I don’t know how I carried to bed. It was 02h15 that my eyes saw on the watch display, or it was the time that the brain assimilated – my life is a constant dichotomy.
02h30 – We are undoubtedly facing a book that not only forced the author to an intense research, listen to these words “Pratt & Whitney R-1830 14-cylinder radial engine”, but also reveals that he’s a traveled man, certainly already has made even sexual tourism, when inform the reader that French prostitutes are good. France a country with a good production of prostitutes and other wonders, such as the Louvre, the Seine River and the historic Battle of Waterloo – amazing! This book promises good surprises.
Some unexpected visitors were amazed by discovering a ape speaking. I do not know the reason for the astonishment – frankly! There is more disturbing to see a man like Tarzan played by Johnny Weissmuller talk like a monkey! What would say Edgar Rice Burroughs of this ridiculous mess made with his literary creation.
The daily task of reporting the reading is too much for me. I would advise you to read the book, it is an asset to any head.
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