Paul Grimstad
The Number 42
From Tether 4, pages 72–77
When Alice is dozing in her sister’s lap, thinking about and ultimately rejecting the idea of setting out to collect flowers to make a daisy chain, she sees a White Rabbit take a watch from its waistcoat pocket. John Tenniel’s crosshatched image of the Rabbit is the first of forty-two illustrations in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland andLewis Carroll, it seems, was particularly drawn to this number. As Martin Gardner put it, the number 42 had “some sort of special significance for him.”
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Tether 4 contains Salomo Friedlaender’s musings on the work of George Grosz; poems by noted German poet Durs Grünbein; a poem by English Modernist Joseph Gordon Macleod; Erik LaPrade’s look at the peculiar papier-mâché works of Otis Burger; Mark Ford’s translations of two episodes from the draft of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus; an interview between painters Elliott Green and Catherine Murphy; John Reid Currie’s melancholic poetry; Paul Grimstad exploring the number 42; early photographs by Diana MacKown; Kreg Hasegawa’s curious short story; Paul Maziar’s look at pastry chef portraits by Chaim Soutine and August Sander; Barry Schwabsky’s recounting of an experience with the Farnese Sarcophagus; a portfolio of Paula Wilson’s vibrant paintings; Erica Van Horne’s prose poems; John Yau, Carol Szymanski, and Siv Støldal's playful bee keeper costume collaboration; and Francis M. Naumann’s unraveling of the fantastically cryptic Dada poems by Walter Arensberg.
Printed in the USA
Edition of 500
32 color and 34 black and white images
Item Weight : 0.69 pounds
Paperback : 156 pages
ISBN: 978069219455351800
Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
Publisher : Sienese Shredder Editions; Pap/Com Edition (2018)
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