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Book of war, mortification and love
the making of
the Book of war, mortification and love
by Ruud Linssen
This book on voluntary suffering
is printed with the author's blood
Step 1
Tapping the blood
Yes, this is the ink for his debut
Step 2
Turning blood into powder
Step 3
Turning powder into printing ink
mixing blood with linseed oil
and some more oil and ink
Just when you are finished everything which can go wrong...
Yes. It went wrong.
It's all about voluntary suffering.
Also the making of this book.
Production failure!
Wrong imposition (arrangement of pages)!
We had to trash lots of printed sheets.
And lots of blood.
New blood was required, the whole process had to be repeated.
Using 5 times the amount of blood as shown in this movie.
Half a liter of blood was used in total.
No human beings were harmed.
And?
This ain’t really suffering, is it?