WORLD'S FIRST Print-on-Demand Novel: ArtemisSmith's 1989 Dot-Matrix Prototype

Description: SUPER-RICH BENEFACTORS: Don't Let This Investment Opportuniy Escape You! Also Call for Viewing a Cornucopia of Other Art Treasures! And get a chance to meet the 88-year-old Legend and Work with Her on a Multitude of Futuristic Projects!FOR DETAILS GO TO OUR NEW WEBSITE: The Savant Garde Institute Art (fineartamerica.com)Buy the Author's own personal copies Signed and Personalizedby the Still-Living Legend: Artemis Smith a/k/a Annselm L.N.V. MorpurgoWhose trademarked penname is now being pirated by illicit Pretenders. Preserve this Rare (25 Copy) barely legible Prototype Edition, the remaining Author's Personal Copy of the historic 1989 FIRST ON-DEMAND NOVEL printed on a 9-pin Seikosha dot-matrix color-ribbon desk-top printer. This 20th Century Futurist Testament by Annselm 'ArtemisSmith' Morpurgo is the fading original edition of "SKEETS:The New Frankenstein Chronicles" ISBN 1-878998-11-0, printer-etched on acid-free 100lb cotton stock that will last nearly forever! (By1990, big-money publishers caught on and got on the print-on-demand bandwagon with high-speed ink jet technology and the Author's homebased dot-matrix factory was scrapped as impractical. But Artemis Smith a/k/a AnnselmLNVM showed everyone else how by doing it first!)What's so SPECIAL about ArtemisSmith's SKEETS series?Would you buy an illegible copy of The Old Testament if you could find one?How about an illegible copy of The New Testament?Then WHY NOT an illegible copy of The Final Testament! Begun in the 20th Century and still continuing.PS: If you can't afford the big bucks to buy this precious FULLY AUTHENTICATED icon, at least buy one of the very affordable on demand new editions of this Futurist Treatise as well as her other works, such as "ArtemisSmith's GrandmaMoseX:The Final Testament before The Apocalypse" ISBN 978-1-878998-20-0 or "ArtemisSmith's THE THIRD SEX" ISBN 978-1-878998-05-7 or "ArtemisSmith's ODD GIRL Revisited" ISBN 978-1-878998-30-9 or "ArtemisSmith's ATHEIST MANIFESTO" ISBN 978-1-878998-28-6 now still on sale worldwide - or read all of them in eBook form, available in Kindle and Nook. To many descendants of all the human rights communities who fought and are still fighting to make this world a better place, THIS RARE COLLECTIBLE is a sacred relic to be prized and lovingly preserved. Proceeds from the Sale will help fund the continuing work of AnnselmLNVM's Foundation, The Savant Garde Institute. Way before 1989 (1973) the Author had wowed the entire budding computer industry by addressing them at the ACM Urban Symposium in New York City with her visionary paper: "The Audio-Visual Novel - Art Form of the 21st Century" which prompted early geeks such as Bill Gates to design software for laptop artists and writers. Get that paper too, as well as an assortment of other Predictions, Memoirs and Reflections by Artemis Smith (also known as poet and futurist Annselm L.N.V. Morpurgo) whose ground-breaking Nominated scientific analyses on the nature of Gender and Human Consciousness still await a Nobel Prize.How can you acquire this Big Ticket Item on eBay? Follow the instructions above. A $1,000,000.00 downpayment wired to eBay will hold it until your check clears so we know you're not scamming. Meanwhile, you can visit the Author at her Studio in Riverhead, New York and see all the goodies in her files before filling your basket with precious letters, etc. as additional throw-ins. Luckily, Artemis Smith has lived long enough to reissue them in current print-on-demand ink-jet legible technology. ALSO WANTED: some billionaire willing to step up to the plate - someone who deeply respects the history of the 1950's Civil Rights era and wishes to help THE SAVANT GARDE INSTITUTE create a home for itself and its artistic/academic community in The Hamptons, U.S.A., to be known as The Attilio and Vilhelma MORPURGO CENTER for The Arts and Sciences. (Funding to be coordinated with the global auction of a multitude of art works some of which are on this eBay Page.)Your purchase also helps a 501(c)(3) educational foundation utilize the special talents of artists and researchers through its community 'think tanks'. Now Also Available for Online Purchase from the Bookstore of Your Choice: ArtemisSmith's ODD GIRL REVISITED:an autobiographical correlate Review by Mel Keegan, 2011: How often have you heard it said (and doubted it), life is stranger than fiction? “ArtemisSmith’s ODD GIRL Revisited:an autobiographical correlate” by Artemis Smith (ISBN 978-1-878998-38-5) is probably the proof of the old adage'-- for if this were not an autobiographical work, in which the details pertinent to the first segment'-- the backstory of Ms. Smith's childhood -- would be easily verifiable, you would have to rank it as one of the most extravagant social melodramas of the century just gone, full of crowned heads, two out of the three True Faith religions in head-on collision, the most exotic of locations, from Paris to Rome to the dark cities of Scandinavia, and the fortunes of individuals and noble households caught up in both war and the cultural upheaval out of which the twentieth century was forged. And all this, in the first 20 pages ... not counting the footnotes, of which there are ... a lot. (I do have a minor problem with footnotes in a work of this kind. The asides and remarks seem, to me, to belong in the text. They are like the marginal notes one makes for incorporation in the next, or last, draft. Footnotes are most definitely the author's fancy, however ... as if she has hit the pause button and turned to the reader to interject some juicy tidbit which was, for some reason, blue-penciled from the project. Who knows how the minds of editors work?) The work is very personal, and told with an almost desiccated humor which I'm sure I'm not imagining, and which I fear will skip right over the heads of most modern readers without even disturbing the hair'-- which is regrettable, since the humor helps humanize a work which deals with a multitude of characters and locations which, at the 'outset,' change with every breath, while the "plot twists" oscillate between the Parisienne café culture, the Roman art studio and post-war New York.' If this were a movie ... it would have to be a mini-series. The settings are exotic indeed, and one wishes more could have been written along the way, amplifying the names, dates, situations, which are conveyed in a shorthand which, though far more articulate than one expects of literature in this day and age, is stripped of almost all human detail. Many times, the stage seems set for what would be an utterly engrossing narrative, if only the author would, for a few pages, paint on the wider canvas ... write of those exotic historical (pre-war) locations, put us into them, make us see, hear and feel the world in which these characters -- in fact ,'Ms. Smith's 'ancestors! --'lived, worked, fought. Survive the first 20pp, and the book shifts gears, entering a more modern scenario,' leaving the European settings, and 'moving to' the United States. The humor I perceive 'is razor sharp;' the story of an individual rather than a wide, freewheeling cast of characters, is often easier to focus on, but you may' want to keep an encyclopedia handy. Not being an American, many references to American events, persons and politicking, especially of an era before I was born, found little familiarity with me. Smart enough to know I was missing a good deal, I looked up some of the references! However, as a reviewer, I must wonder which readers out there in the modern audience will do this. Foreign readers will be head-scratching at the American references, while American readers will miss many of the European ones. Research is the solution; but readers have become notoriously lazy. ArtemisSmith’s ODD GIRL Revisited is a work of' rare scholarship'-- so much so that it's not the "easy read" the mass market is looking for these days. It's a window on a world which is gone, and the savvy reader's brows will be popping up in many places, for many reasons. (For example, Ms. Smith mentions selling her first "mass market" paperback, c1959, for something in the order of' US$1,000, which was considered a paltry sum. By today's standards, this was in fact a vast'amount to be paid for a pulp work'-- or indeed, any work. It was a 'decent percentage of the annual wage of the day, while modern pulp writers are paid a tiny fraction of this, by ratio to the current median wage. So, as you can see, ODD GIRL Revisited is as much an invaluable glimpse into its times as into the lives and hearts of gay/Gay girls who grew up in the decades before most of us were born.) The strength of the book is in its "realness." And I know that's not a word; but it's what I want to say. The people, places and events in this book are real. Fantastic as it seems (and the first 20pp, the backstory of the author's childhood, do seem more in keeping with a big-budget HBO Movie of the Week!) these events took place. As the Chinese curse goes, "May you live in interesting times." Later, the book includes a collection of letters which reinforce the realness of the times, the hardships; and we gain a painful, illuminating insight into the realities of living with mental illness, as the author describes caring for, and loving, a partner whose intellectual brilliance and mental instability apparently rode in tandem. This kind of pain transcends national boundaries, gender identities, time frames. And this later section of the book became fascinating to me in a different way from Ms. Smith's probable intention. One of my personal interests is the history of gay publishing. A social portrait of growing up and being gay in the twentieth century is always of fascination. It takes an odd case(like myself'-- always thinking on the tangent) to have a sub-sub-category of interest, which makes my antennae rotate when the subject shifts to publishing in this genre. Yet again the focus changes, as the author grapples with the packaging and reception of her work, and she evolves logically from this to grapple with the issue of human rights'-- of which women's rights and gay rights are in fact'merely a sub-set. This has been my own philosophy for thirtyyears and more, and on page 73 I stood up, put down the BeBook, and cheered. There is more in the book, but no more space in this review! On many levels, I recommend ODD GIRL Revisited as a'scholarly presentation. The windows which creak open on the 1950s and 1960s are invaluable. If nothing else, those first 20pp might come as a rude awakening to some readers who assume they possess half an education of events outside American shores and prior to their own lives! Grab your encyclopaedia , kids. You'll need it as often as I --'not an American --' needed to check the references to the events, places, persons and politics of your country. In fact (and I regret to say this) the book is not at all for the casual reader. Today's average reader will certainly need to keep not merely an encyclopaedia to hand, but also a dictionary, since the manner of the writing is so scholarly. Constant reference is made to social and cultural dimensions which are most likely far beyond the grasp of a casual reader with an average education. One hopes this 'book' offers a priceless opportunity for the broadening of perspectives and horizons. I do feel that a little background and foundation under the work might have buttressed it against the difficult audience to which it must play in 2011. A development of the historical and social scenes of pre-war Europe and post-war New York would have been most welcome to this reader,and might perhaps have made it more accessible to casual readers browsing the gay shelves. ODD GIRL Revisited by Artemis Smith is launching at this time, around Christmas 2010, and will inevitably be shelved as a gay/Gay memoire (which is accurate), and consequently rubbing shoulders with the more 'easily read' autobiographies of community figures and celebrities. Find it cozying up to John Barrowman in the Autobiographies/Gay, or the Gay/Autobiographies section ...'now, there's'a chalk and cheese categorization! Recommended for the well-read; for the reader who isn't using the encylopaedia to prop up the DVD stand; for the writer researching the period'-- with or without any interest in gay culture of the twentieth century. Ideally suited to the American social and cultural studies, and of great interest as a window on the recent past. Also should catch the attention of executives at HBO, who might easily be captivated with the first 20pp, buy the movie rights and never even read the rest of the book! (One can see it now, starring Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill and'Viggo Mortensen...) --Review by Mel Keegan, BookWorld.editme.com GLBT Bookshelf, December 6, 2010

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