Splinters

Via the kindness of Fitzroy Cyclonic, I have finally found something I've been looking for a long time; a complete web-based reproduction of  Wyndham Lewis' famous journal BLAST, issues one and two. Only two were ever made of course. Flick through the pages at glorious leisure. 

And what splendid documents they are, especially the first. Stunning, striking, almost literally, in a smack about the head kind of way.  I've not read all the poetry, but the manifesto is wonderfully abstruse, skewed and vicious, and the artwork marvellous. Enemy of the Stars, they "play" which I’m still reading now, is quite something too.  A dreaded cliché I know, but these look impossibly modern now, when they first came out it must have been like reading something from another world. Given Lewis’s well-documented weirdness and nastiness, there may be an element of "sound and fury signifying nothing", but what a sound, and what great fury! Come on, how can you not like stuff like this, this, and this? Oh well, please yourself…. 

Okay, the next issue is how can I get hold of a proper paper copy, whilest sticking within my naturally stingy Yorkshireman’s budget? I’ve seen it on e-bay for £100, surely it can go for less than that? I’d consider anything up to £50…and that shows how keen I am…….