Xedni

INDEX

{A full-page drawing of a wooded path snaking off into low hills. Quadrupeds graze in a distant field. Four characters are walking away along the path. The most distant, the character I, is followed by the characters N, D, and E. Each has a body shaped like a blocky letter of the alphabet, with stick feet, four-fingered stick hands, and a head with a simple round hat. In the foreground, the character X stands facing the reader and sticks his tongue out. A creature with rabbity ears pokes its head out of a nearby hole, ejects a visible question mark from its mind, and displays its own long forked tongue.}

{And here ends the First Gibberbook.}

Acknowledgemoulds

ACKNOWLEDGEMOULDS

We would like to thank the following for their help and lack of insistance during the preparation of this boot:

£1,000
    British Petroleum Ltd Plc
    British Rail
    British Beef
    Brutish Behaviour
    Hideossomarne Ghastlitecture
    Kellogg's Nasty Bran Things

£500
    The Floor
    The Kettle
    The Nettle
    John Kettley
    Angus Eayton (Deceased)
    Angus Eayton (D Ceased)
    Ivor the England
    The Pope
    The Poltroon
    Aled Jones

3p
    Mr Acker Bilk and his Career

By hook or by crook

"By hook or by crook,
I'll be last in this book."

"By eggs or by bacon,
I think you're mistaken."

["A way a lone a last a long the"]

            Amen.

            That makes seven.

... which all means that the book is full!

LOOK, NO SPACE!

Full of rubbish (and the letter xi)
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{tucked into the corner}[negative]

Diaphragms of realitude

UPSIDE-DOWN DIAPHRAGMS OF REALITUDE:

{upside down}

                  author
                 /      |
                /       |
"Actuality"    |   GAP  |
  \        \   V        |
    \       text        |
      \     |  |        |
        \   |  |   change over time
          \ |  V        |
            text        |
            ^  |       /
            |  |     GAP
            ^--V     /
            reader  /
               |   /
               |  /
               V
              TEXT
              ^
              |
              Not bad. However --.
             ____________________/
            |
            v
        ---------
      ("Actuality")
        ---------
           GAP
 _______    |    __________
|       v   v   v          |
| perception (of "author") |
|           |              |
|           v              |
|    thought (text) -------'
|          GAP
|           |
|           v
writing - text (and reading
                by author)
           GAP
            |
            v
    reading (by other)
           GAP
            |
            v
 "perception", impression
 of information, &c (text)
      - paraphrase

    Picasso