Item #17907 THE CRAZY THING: Starting Over from the Beginning Somewhere Near the End. Carl Lehmann-Haupt.

THE CRAZY THING: Starting Over from the Beginning Somewhere Near the End

Codhill, 2014. 78 pages. Item #17907

Paperback in new condition.

The Crazy Thing is an artist’s book, composed of drawings, photographs, and fragments of text. The fragments describe events from the author’s past, which alternate with journal entries from the present, in which the old man confronts the younger man he once was. The book is made up of many pieces, but all of them point to one conclusion — the picture of a man in search of his full stature.

As for the Crazy Thing itself no one can tell what it is. It is the X-factor that can’t be named because it is not a thing among the things of the world. Nor is it a power. Anyone may feel its inexplicable influence, but they will search in vain for the cause. The Crazy Thing is present only in its absence.

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