t seems to us that in this book artist Sam Samore and “failed” NY poet Max Henry have made a case study of the French poet Mallarmé’s UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N’ABOLIRA LE HASARD. Sam had some dice made up with words engraved on them (love, fear, with , lust, etc.) instead of numbers and Max made phrases by tossing them. Their Case study pretends to scientific objectivity, but in fact they take Mallarmé’s sense of serendipity quite literally. Too bad they haven’t (yet?) developed an interest in the Marquis de Sade. They might take Justine for a life-style recommendation. But for now they prefer surrealism to sadism.

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