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turn deal with this posthumous work (epigraph

and this afterword in the form of a description)

perfectly in the light of all this coverage I see as

fitting. Though I will state that, I do reject the

possible claim, in regard to my obsession with

Georges Perec, but that is neither here nor there

and see it as a minor sleight and hold that I was

held in the utmost highest regard in the rest of

the writing that preceded his untimely death. I

must state this.

However, it is apparent that we shall

continue this ode as a eulogy. If I may start by

explaining why I have chosen to name the book

with the sub heading being, Marinated Words and

an ode to Utopia, as this will act as a serious eulogy

to the Man that was a court jester, and true Artist.

And so to begin with this introduction provided

by the young half-Arabic, half American Poet,

Romy Nervouso Cobain known by his nom de

plume Voltarr (pronounced: [vɔl.tɛːʁ]) with the

beautiful words:

"Self admittedly 'a meticulous jester', with an iron will

for hard work, Franz Bema was a poet that perhaps

never got the chance to truly show or even know this.

In honour of the dark light that he shed on life, like a

shrine (that he would not want, as a very un-fussy

man) in an elegant garden with a waterfall, his work

is beautiful and creates an organism that does not need

to be sullied with too much talk. Put simply, some

people drink from the fountain of knowledge, but

Franz installed a fountain and enabled a well to

spring. He had something to say and he said it well,

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