Everything's going to hell...

The lack of education becomes widespread. Whether among the young people who take examinations or among the old folk who display it in the street.

Everybody knows that in French the noun "herbe" (grass, weed) is feminine. But it is not a reason to write its possessive "ma". Because of the hiatus, we have to write "mon". Everybody knows it...

Moreover what is below is a plant, not a weed!

Bis

Received by post today, two books which marvelously complete our lot. Offered by a generous and mysterious donor whom we deeply thank and without reserve here.

Thus, as agreed dear (and not expensive) JT Maston, you will have your engraved plate of generous donor in place promised.

Assay:

Roger-Henri Guerrand, Les Lieux, La Découverte, 1985.

Lyric poetry:

Cami, Voyage inédit de Gulliver ou L'Ile des culs-de-jatte, Balnibarbi, 3047.

Tree

These three trees laughed*. They prove it.
Why?
For nothing...
For a trinket: because they are in front of Bagatelle**!

(In French : * ri=laughted ** bagatelle=trinket. Jokes. One more time. Sigh!)

LOT

Our century glorifies more and more the physical health, the vigour of the muscle, the elasticity of the skin and seems to abandon a little the intellectual health and the spiritual plasticity. This small chronicle is an attempt of rebalancing the situation. It studies the possibility of improve the mind - to read - in a devolved place in its totality to the body and its hygiene, a place where it stabilizes by getting rid of superfluous solids and fluids. In a word, it is the study of the constitution of a lot, a library of toilets. The tranquillity of the place and the sat position facilitate the intellectual concentration. Nothing remains to give to the place, after the ease and the convenience, an easy access to the enrichment. One or two shelves and some well chosen books will allow it easily. We shall find, in the bibliography which follows, our choices on the matter. This bibliography proposes a very precise theme; it is not exhaustive, naturally. It evolves according to finds.

Lot of cls, july 5th, 2008

Generalist work:

Pipi Caca Popo, histoire anecdotique de la scatologie, Liber, 1996.

University studies:

Cucu, caca and C^ie, le closet et ses à-côtés, École nationale supérieure de création industrielle, 1988.

History textbooks:

John Crombie, Balade à travers les toilettes publiques de Montparnasse à la Belle Époque / A Ramble Round the Public Conveniences Situate in Montparnasse during The Belle Epoque, Kickshaws, 2004.

John Crombie, Un lieu de mémoire, des lieux mémorables / A Lulu a Loo, The Gladiator in the Museum, Kickshaws, 2005.

Tourist guides:

Guide Porcelaine des Lieux de Paris, La Jeune Parque, 1967.

Comics:

Tybo & Goupil, Guide indispensable du Petit Coin, Vent d'Ouest, 1994.

Biography:

Jean Nohain et François Caradec, Le Pétomane (1857-1945), sa vie, son œuvre, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1967.

Assay:

Guy Tassigny, Les Merdophages, Ocia, 1946.

Bernard Miot, Célébration du trou, Robert Morel, collection « Célébration » n° 50, sd.

Practical manuals:

Anonyme, L'Art de péter, essai théori-physique et méthodique, Éditions du Raisin, 1929.

Luc Étienne, L'Art du contrepet, petit traité à l'usage des Amateurs pour résoudre les Contrepèteries proposées et en inventer de nouvelles, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1957 / Le livre de Poche, 1971.

Travel journals:

Bienvenu Merino, Diarrhée au Mexique, Atelier du Gué, 2006.

Humor:

Didier Lévy, Le P'tit Livre du P'tit Coin, Tourbillon, 2005.

Laurence Gillot, Le P'tit Livre du P'tit Coin 2, Tourbillon, 2006.

Literature:

François Rabelais, Gargantua, chapitre XIII, « Comment Grandgousier congneut l'esperit merveilleux de Gargantua à l'invention d'un torchecul » édition quelconque entre le 16^e et le 21^e siècle, ici Bibliothèque Elzévirienne, P. Jannet, 1863.

Jack Shepheard, acrobate, Les Soirées du Merd's Bar !!, Jouve, 1926.

Marc Beigbeder, Les Cacagons,  Robert Morel, 1966.

Serge Gainsbourg, Evguénie Sokolov, Gallimard, 1980.

J.P. Donleavy, La Dame qui aimait les toilettes propres, Calmann-Lévy, 1998.

Unfortunately, this bibliography does not have in the Religion heading the book The Gospel according to Saint Luke-a-rebours, one of the centerpieces in the library of the great scatologist Ralph Messac. We have never been able to obtain any edition.

Manuscript

Among the pleasures and the cross (the two sides of the same coin) of the publisher we find the reception of not sought manuscripts by mail way (now - technological progress obliges - they also arrive by e-mail).

Everybody knows that, in the matter, the worst mostly border on... the worst. Exceeded, the publisher is transformed into an old grumbling bear. Then he reacts as a consequence and sends back the incriminated manuscripts with a sybillin cardboard in place of report, like that of Deleatur: "Pierre Laurendeau loathes the poetry!" (Printed by myself for my friend and colleague) or, with a good consummate taste, like that one we find above for the Éditions du Fourneau.

Self-criticism: the typography of this cardboard is more than questionable but its documentary interest (and history) is evident.