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Somebody writes a book
for someone else to read it.
He is writing. And she?
She’s reading this.
So that some other he could read that thing
written by another her
someone must publish that tome of hers.
And thus, a tome to a tome.
Which brings us home to his and hers, to their writings.
They read well or they don’t.
I could go on like that for long chewing paper pulp,
turning phrases about books, of books, in books...
Worn-out phrases, threadbare plots.
Whole pages worn-out, torn out of con-text.
The writer doesn’t write a whole book,
he only puts a text in it.
The reader doesn’t read a whole book either.
He only reads the print.
If writers really wrote books, literally,
beside words, they would have to write them from cover to cover
beginning with the front cover
ending with the back cover.
Unless one wanted to do away with book covers altogether.
Come and see that it’s possible.
Enter liberature.
Visit the only reading room of such books in this country,
of this kind.
Try Krakow, 27, Karmelicka street.
Unique books are collected here.
Since who actually said that the author
cannot contain a novel on loose sheets in a box?
Or hide a poem as a jinn in a bottle?
And what about joining three tomes
into one inseparable work?
ask creators of liberature.
Who could forbid us to roll and unroll books
into alleys, roads of words,
of images, of houses, says, says, says
Who says so to you, reader of liberature
of works liberated from all editorial conventions,
those bookish limitations...
A liberary writer writes also with blanks.
Blanks are empty spaces
between letters, verses and chapters.
The liberary writers don’t know how to stop.
For them those empty spaces are full of meaning.
"Visible words invisible words.
Mobile words immobile words.
In total literature in books in freedom."
wrote Zenon Fajfer,
creator of the coinage “liberature”, and of liberary books.
Emptiness and silence are also for reading.
This is the liberary ABC.
This is a smooth page that one is rough.
This one is white that one is dyed.
Another one cut into strips.
Look, that one has a corner ripped off.
Fix your eyes on it and fix the rip.
This is a transparent scroll,
and that is a cover with an opening and a piece of rock.
When you give a different form to these words,
meaning is changed in those tomes.
English subtitles Katarzyna Bazarnik