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Mistigram: #PaulBacon’s famous “Big Book Look” cover art design to #JosephHeller’s 1961 satirical anti-war novel #Catch22, featuring “the little guy that I tore out of a piece of paper, representing #Yossarian in full flight from everything”, was adapted to #ANSIart by Cthulu for the recent books-themed MIST026 artpack collection.

#ANSIArt #BigBookLook #Catch22 #cthulu #JosephHeller #MIST0426 #PaulBacon #Yossarian

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Mistigram: “Awkward grammar appals a craftsman.” Cthulu made an #ANSIart adaptation of the cover design to experimental writer #ChristianBök’s unforgettable 2001 univocal lipogram anthology #Eunoia, whose colours are informed by Arthur Rimbaud’s 1871 poem “Voyelles”. Look on hotbot dot com to know who’s who or wot’s wot. How now brown cow. This piece was included in the recent books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

#ANSIArt #ChristianBok #cthulu #Eunoia #MIST0426

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Mistigram: for the recent books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection, Cthulu made this #ANSIart adaptation of #BertholdWolpe’s cover design for the 1957 novel #Justine, the first volume in #LawrenceDurrell’s Alexandria Quartet, featuring a #hamsa handprint to ward off evil spirits.

#ANSIArt #BertholdWolpe #cthulu #hamsa #Justine #LawrenceDurrell #MIST0426

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Mistigram: because ‘books’ doesn’t just mean ‘fiction’ and ‘non-fiction’, here’s Cthulu’s #ANSIart adaptation of #RoyKuhlman’s 1960 cover design to #EugeneIonesco’s allegorical play #Rhinoceros. This piece was included in the recent books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

#ANSIArt #cthulu #EugeneIonesco #MIST0426 #rhino #rhinoceros #RoyKuhlman

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Mistigram: #MyronGrossman and #MichaelTedesco’s cover illustration to #JohnKennedyToole’s postumous 1980 New Orleans novel #AConfederacyOfDunces, depicting antihero #IgnatiusJReilly getting his earring unexpectedly removed by a trained cockatoo, was here adapted to #ANSIart by Cthulu. It was included in last month’s books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

#AConfederacyOfDunces #ANSIArt #cthulu #IgnatiusJReilly #JohnKennedyToole #MichaelTedesco #MIST0426 #MyronGrossman

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Mistigram: If you haven’t had the strange pleasure of reading #ThomasPynchon’s 1973 magnum opus #GravitysRainbow, “ostensibly about an American G.I. who seems to have a psychosexual connection to Nazi Germany’s V-2 rockets”, no gloss will really suffice. But because a picture says a thousand words, we here post Cthulu’s adaptation of #MarcGetter’s cover art to the postmodern novel, included in last month’s books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

#ANSIArt #cthulu #GravitySRainbow #MarcGetter #MIST0426 #ThomasPynchon

Forget pearls—clutch your sides laughing. It’s #BAWK time. 🐓 #ChickenInChief #resistance #Cthulu

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Mistigram: perhaps Cthulu was overcome with hubris, his tragic flaw, attempting to depict everything in the heavens and on the earth using only 80 columns, but nevertheless he attemped to adapt the cover to #DAulaires 1962 Book of Greek Myths, a formative collection, to #ANSIart, and managed to cram in, if not exactly exalt, all of the subjects. This depiction of #Helios’ solar chariot was included in last month’s books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

#ANSIArt #cthulu #DAulaires #greekMythology #Helios #MIST0426

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Mistigram: trotting an old joke around the track once again, in last month’s new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection Cthulu made a batch file DOSbox adaptation of George Nachman’s #RichardCory Interactive Adventure from 1998, a joke about #EdwinArlingtonRobinson’s 1897 poem from over a hundred years earlier. This is its splash screen, with its weird Braille-like low-#ASCIIart logo to accommodate the dictates of the MS-DOS command line. You can play it via https://16colo.rs/pack/mist0426/CT-RC.BAT or see the original at https://www.llamas.org/corey.html

#ASCIIArt #batchFile #cthulu #EdwinArlingtonRobinson #GeorgeNachman #MIST0426 #MSDOS #RichardCory

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Mistigram: OK, we shared Burroughs and Kerouac, so let’s wrap it up and complete the Beat set. ‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked’, but Cthulu couldn’t draw all that in #ANSIart, so instead he just adapted #Howl’s 1956 #CityLights cover design. This piece was included in last month’s books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

#AllenGinsberg #ANSIArt #CityLights #cthulu #howl #MIST0426 #monochrome