Re: psychoceramics: de Selby et al

[acb @ cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C. Bulhak)]

[Rob]
> 
> Hi, new to this list I wonder if anyone can give me a kook rating on
> the following:
> 
> http://users.aol.com/bigsecrets/Keeler.html
>   (still not sure this writer is not an invented one)
> 
> http://www.tassie.net.au/~jpalmer/index.html
>   (obsessed, yes. A Kook? Possibly.)
> 
> http://www.ling.nwu.edu/~sburke/dada/
>    (a recent spate of haiku has swamped the dada list)
> 
> http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~ngzF92/jarrypub/commence.html
>    (Author of the legendary Dr Faustroll.)
> 
> http://www.cybertheque.fr/perso/anita/vian/menuvian.html
> 
>    (Boris Vian. Both he & M Jarry are of French extraction and dead.)
> 
> Another favourite of mine is de Selby but no web reference that I know
> of, a few on Flann O'Brien, but none devoted to the savant himself.

I haven't found any of O'Brien's books mentioning de Selby, but I 
believe he (and his theories of teratological molecules, six-dimensional
plenumary time and similar things) were mentioned in the footnotes of
Robert Anton Wilson's novel, "The Widow's Son".  I'd like to find out
more about de Selby.

I've read _Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician_ though.
Well worth reading.  The final chapter deals with mathematically finding
the surface area of God.

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