Forrest’s Reviews > The Journal of the London School of Pataphysics, #21 > Status Update

Moving beyond the Quays' "Embellished Version of On the Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets," past Holtzmuller's Liber Perutilis and on, now, to the Alfred Jarry texts on marionettes and puppets.

I also need to note the Quays' supposition on figure-8s, which are ubiquitous in their films, that their fascination with these figures is because of their natality.

Note to self: Quote the interchange on p. 45 re: stories. It makes explicit what you love in the peripheral interstices of works you read and your writing, the shadowed recesses that are not always explicitly "plot," but that make the difference between adequate writing and enjoyable writing. The Quays make peeking into those crevasses their primary concern, but they exist in all truly great work.

There are 13 photos in here of the Quays' studio, which has now moved, according to the text. I have only seen glimpses here and there, so this is incredible, seeing the full-on photos of their workspace. It's as quirky as you would probably expect, a cinematic wunderkammer lab.