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| Illustrated Guide for Raymond Roussel by Shiro Takahashi | ||||
"Impressions d'Afrique"  |
"Locus Solus"  |
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| Chapter 1: | The coronation of Talu VII , on that 25th June. at Trophies Square of Ejur  Zouave tombstone a stone-coloured building three life-size statues a cabin without a door a rubber tree a marble-coloured alter a giantic palm tree a vertical cylinder a red theatre a wooden pedestal cells |
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Chapter 2: |
Entrance and Ceremony Executions "a huge axe" "a growing rod" "a gold pin" "thunder" |
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Chapter 3: |
"Motion" Gala performance The festivitions of the Incomparables The four Bucharessas brothers The fencing engine (Ejur: trip through the air) the automatic orchestra The gigantic button-stick The worm and a zither |
 a steeply sloping path "Earth" |
Chapter 4: |
"Languag" Gala performance (Ejur: TaluVII performed Aubade) The lecture of the Electors of Brandenburg The lecture of the sturgeon-skate Tabcred Bucharessas company Cuijper's Squeaker The great tragic actress |
 a broad promende  "Wind" |
Chapter 5: |
"Tableau vivant" |
 a gigantic diamond "Water" |
Chapter 6:  |
"Element" at the plain (Ejur: Alcot family's Polyphony at the Tez river (Ejur: Sirdah's recovery) The river stream controled loom The ripple picture in the river The fireworks |
 a gigantic cage of glass "Death" |
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"Growth" Seil Kor's recovery Psychedelic Plants and Movie Therap Collaboration The tragic mime: Romeo and Juliet The embryo of a picture in a seed |
 a little stone edifice "Fire" |
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"Living Art" Finale (Ejur: Image memory plant and Marine biology) Award and leave |
 a river bordered by rocks "Life" |
Chapter 9: |
"Artificial Art" the next morning The digital photography system |
 a vast and romantic glade "Freedom" |
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| Reymond Roussel authored the bizarre and fantastic work of novelistic imagination "Impressions of Africa" in 1910. It is a tale of the coronation of Talu VII、Emperor of Ponukele, at which the nature-based arts of Africa and the scientific arts of Europe are placed in competition with one another. In his 1914 novel "Locus Solus", the Pabilions of art built on a hillside near Paris by scientist Martial Canterel is the site of Canterel' unveiling of the results of his own resrarch. The four elements of air, water, earth and fire play a prominent role in these works, along with other timeless themes such as life and death. It is instructive to contrast Roussel's writings with those of Jules Verne. While Verne's scientific novel "Extraordinary Journeys" is a vision of what everyday life might someday become, and its prophecies are being borne out in the real world around us 100 years after it was written, Roussel's novels express a lofty, intellectually integrated fantasy world that 100 years later, serves as an analogy for the contemporary realm of cyberspace. | ||
