It is independent of the fickleness of fortune

April 2, 2020 11:32 AM

How to Spend 42 Days Stuck in Your Room
posted by Chrysostom (6 comments total)

Well this is utterly delightful and not at all what I expected.

Will Schwalbe does an admirable job of illustrating some of the highlights.

Thank you so much for posting this, Chrysostom!
posted by kristi at 11:46 AM on April 2, 2020

Oh! And there's a sequel!
posted by kristi at 11:48 AM on April 2, 2020 [1 favorite]

This is a wonderful book. The message here is that each of us, sitting in our room, are surrounded by stories, and we could make a similar trip discovering these stories we may have never told ourselves or anyone else. Another example is An Annotated Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri. In that book we learn about all the stories that were found on his kitchen table on October 17, 1961 at 3:47 pm. Spoerri is most famous for his "snare-pictures" where he would capture and fix all the objects, for example on a table top, and then hang the table top on the wall as art. All that stuff around you, which you have either been just seeing or ignoring all this time can come back to life with just a change of your point of view.
posted by njohnson23 at 12:37 PM on April 2, 2020 [1 favorite]

Has anyone here seen Tatami Galaxy? This makes me want to rewatch it, I wonder if it was inspired by this book
posted by weewooweewoo at 2:07 PM on April 2, 2020

The Land of Counterpane
posted by clew at 2:21 PM on April 2, 2020 [5 favorites]

Available on archive.org.
posted by Theiform at 3:43 PM on April 2, 2020 [2 favorites]