Raoul Tranchirer's Encyclopedia for Intrepid Readers

Advice, explanations, and notes for a variety of occasions in both the upper and lower worlds, organized from A for eel to Z for intermediate carriers; including entries on apple spinning, rubber men, bang silver, life-shortening agents, patented nutcrackers, Rossmähler's works, swing machines, arching ratios, and audience duties. Because: "Not only the body should rest, but the mind must also be protected from any excitement and unrest" (Ror Wolf). The encyclopedia, written under the pseudonym Raoul Tranchirer, is not only a sarcastic reckoning with the madness of world interpretation and regulation but also forms a multifaceted cosmos full of shallows, puzzles, and secrets. This edition gathers all the keywords from the six previous individual volumes. It is illustrated throughout with surrealistic collages created by Ror Wolf from publications of the 19th and early 20th centuries.