Anyone heard of Graham Rawl? Not read any of his stuff, but there's an article in this week's Time Out about how he's written a novel made entirely of phrases cut out of 1960s women's magazines!

There's an extract here: http://www.grahamrawle.com/books_womans/popup.html

I just thought it was an interesting idea. Anyone tried anything like this?

Cath

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Apart from psychopaths (i.e. anyone who got the andwer to Dee's thread. Beadle?) who may use collage to write ransom notes, etc.

The real Graham Rawl was an avid DIY-er.
His father had a business in the Fibre and Hemp Industry. As a boy, Graham became very familiar with the wide and interesting uses of the materials produced at his father's factory. Such products as underwear for prisoners and miscreants, light balls of Ammunition to throw at performers in the Variety Theatres of the day and an early form of condoms.

It was when Graham was putting up a shelf that his big idea came to him. The shelf had fallen down no less than five times, despite the increasing size of screw that Graham used. He reached a point when the largest screws fell out leaving holes in the wall and a useless shelf.

Graham's great idea came to him through plugging the holes with hemp and fibre from the factory. The screws were held tightly and that shelf may still be seen today.

Graham simply called the developed product 'plugs'... it wasn't long before the general name became world famous - RAWLPLUGS.

Len

Interesting piece in last week's TLS about how Anthony Powell was a life-long collage maker, eventually covering the walls of a whole basement room with it, while writing A Dance to the Music of Time. He also assembled two scrap-books of collage-like collections of images. The descriptions sound absolutely fascinated: surreal and revealing juxtapositions.

Emma