Today I am continuing my look through Ash and Lake`s Bizarre Books to see what they have included. My last blog ended with New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers. Today, the first entry is:
Ants and Some Other Insects: an Enquiry into the Psychic Power of These Animals (1904) by Auguste Henri Forel (trans. William Morton Wheeler) (1)
Fish who Answer the Telephone (1937) by Yuri Petrovich Frolov (So that was the strange noise on the phone the other day, Graham!)
“A technological breakthrough that was never fully expoited….” (2)
Did a Hen or an Egg Exist First? Or, My Talks with a Sceptic (1892) by Jacob Horner (3) This book is available on abebooks.co.uk for £8.45 not including postage
Favourite Flies and Their Histories (1955) by Mary Orvis Marbury.(4)
Ho, ho, how very droll! I presume this refers to fishermens flies? This is also available on abebooks.co.uk for £17.25 but a 1988 reprint
Carrots Love Tomatoes (1981) by Louise Riotte (5) £1.34 abebooks
The Longevity of Starved Cockroaches (1982) by Edwin R Willis and Norma Lewis (6)
Here ends Richard`s list of bizarre books on beasts. The book these three blogs has been based upon has been superseded by Fish Who Answer The Telephone and Other Bizarre Books by the same authors (2006)
1.R. Ash and B.Lake Bizarre Books (1987) p.71
2. Ibid p.72
3. Ibid. p.73
4. ibid. p.73
5. Ibid p.74
6.Ibid p.76
And in honour of Jon`s return...
CRASS: BIG A LITTLE A
Big a little a bouncing b
The system might have got you but it won`t get me
1 2 3 4
External control are you going to let them get you?
Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
You say you want to be yourself By…do you think they`ll let you?...
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