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crucifix with the words: "call her, rememberSteve Powers - fucker", messily, but just aboutdecipherable, written underneath it. Franz wasalways noted to have messy handwriting thatAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAslanted heavily to the right, when he made notesof amendments to his manuscripts I would oftenfind it difficult to read what he had written, andthought his handwriting was particularlychildlike. In this same newspaper; there is also ared mark underlining an article about anAmerican woman with persistent genital arousaldisorder. He loved weird facts and would ofteninclude these in his books.In the hallway bookshelf there are threerows of books with a balanced amount of emptyspace of about a quarter on each of the shelvesand exactly thirteen books on each row. Which isfunny as the number 13 was the name of a shortstory Franz had sent to me before I signed him toElysium Books, with his cover letter commentingthat it was his lucky number, which is humourthat I came to find as typical Franz.Although the rest of the apartment hasmore shelves of books, I find the selection of thebooks in the entry hallway as being of particularnote, on the basis that they must have been thebooks Franz would have wanted quick and easyaccess to, being in the apartment's entry one candeduce that they were the books often referenced(and taken to the coffee shops Franz wouldfrequent etc). His work can give evidence to this,(debatable as it can be) and is therefore of curious64
interest in understanding the literary influencesFranz gravitated towards, and perhaps give usinsight into how this affected his work. Theseworks will be listed to allow readers to decideof its interest. They read from left to right:The top row:The Holy Qu'ranAlton Gordunov - Port de brasLeila Dios - ElysiumLeila Dios - A Deathly SerenadeSamuel Beckett - The Complete DramaticWorksLouis-Ferdinand Celine - Conversations withProfessor YThe Bible - Saint James VersionFranz Bema - A Voyeuristic SupperWilliam S. Burroughs - Naked LunchThe Writings of Marcel DuchampJames Thurber - My Life and Hard TimesMichael Cunningham - The HoursThe Gateless Gate - ZhaozhouThe middle row:Maya Angelou - Just Give Me a cool Drink ofWater 'fore I DiiieArthur Rimbaud - Selected Poems and LettersTHE PENGUIN BOOK OF ZEN POETRYPablo Neruda - Twenty Love Poems and a Songof Despair65
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still be a joke. But as the rain fa
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Casagemas. Love, sex and death are
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may try and ruin me with, hence suc
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stood up and said: "I don't actuall
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after his books began to sell milli
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everywhere a sermon…Devil…Good
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women’s. And a notebook with thes
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latent Desires Of......I walk along
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watching her caress the pavements f
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he lost his arm. Have you told Ahme
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vegetables, clothes and shoes. A ma
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warming a pair of my old underwear.
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I then took a better look at her, h
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conspiracies. Antonin spoke passion
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into a scene like an Ingmar Bergman
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I read this message and always knew
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door a fat black girl then loudly t
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by these sporadic sensations—I ig
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go to the Police (even those words
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time spent in Northern Spain, stran
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Bizarre EstrangementsThe tube arriv
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'Portrait of Leila Dois with Black
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'Taking of Christ'oil pastels on pa
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'After Otto'oil on canvas125 x 75 c
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'Death of Ego'oil on canvas125 x 75
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do......and be..?...why will the ni
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