1 INGMAR BERGMAN, the introduction to The Seventh Seal 1956
2 BLAISE CENDRARS, Moravagine 1926
3 HUNT EMERSON, from Max Zillion with Alto Ego 1982
4 SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler 1758
5 A A MILNE, Winnie the Pooh (Walt Disney version)
6 TOM PHILLIPS, The Humument 1980
7 RAOUL VANEIGEM, Traite' de savoir-vivre a l'usage des jeunes générations 1967
8 SAMUEL BECKETT, How it is 1964
9 GEORGE JACKSON, Soledad Brother 1970
10 TERRY JONES, Instant Design 1990
11 HERCULES MOLLOY, Oedipus; in Disneyland 1972
12 ANAIS NIN, from Delta of Venus, 'Artists and Models' 1940
13 BUDDHA, sayings
14 MICHAEL ONDAATJE, the collected works of Billy the Kid 1981
15 NICK CAVE, Your Funeral My Trial from 'King Ink' 1987
16 STEFAN THEMERSON, Professor Mmaa's Lecture 1975
17 SESAME STREET, from The Up and Down Book
18 SYLVIA PLATH, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams 1958
19 KENNETH PATCHEN, Panels for the Walls of Heaven 1946
20 T.S.ELIOT, Burnt Norton from 'Four Quartets' 1935
21 JORGE LUIS BORGES, 'Death and the Compass' 1945
22 HANIEL LONG, The marvellous adventure of Cabeza de Vaca 1939
23 THOMAS PYNCHON, The Crying of Lot 49 1966
24 ARMISTEAD MAUPIN, Tales of the City 1978-84
25 ARUNDHATI ROY The God of Small Things 1997
26 JEAN GIONO The Man Who Planted Trees 1953
27 JULIE BURCHILL AND TONY PARSONS The Boy Looked At Johnny 1978
28 JOHN BUCHAN The Thirty-nine Steps 1941
29 PAUL VERLAINE Art Poetique 1884
30 DOUGLAS COUPLAND Generation X 1991
31 LAURENCE STERNE The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. 1760s
32 EUGENE IONESCO Rhinoceros 1959
33 ANONYMOUS The Death of Queen Jane [?]
34 JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The Reprieve 1945
35 HANNAH ARENDT On Revolution 1963
36 VAGUE/MERCER Instructions for Taking Up Arms (If) 1984
37 DORFMAN AND MATTELART How To Read Donald Duck 1971
38 e.e.cummings I like My Body When It Is With Your Body 20thC
39 JEAN GENET The Thief's Journal 1949
40 HENRY MILLER Tropic of Cancer 1934
41 ART PEPPER Straight Life 1979
42 WILLIAM BURROUGHS The Naked Lunch 1959
43 NATHANAEL WEST The Day of the Locust 1939
44 POPPY Z. BRITE Swamp Foetus 1985
45 MATT GROENING The Simpsons 1987
46 MOTOWN Various Artists 1959
47 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnets 1609
48 HENRY GREEN Pack My Bag 1940
49 STUDS TERKEL A Life In Words 1996
50 ANNE FADIMAN Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader 1998
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