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how to make poisonbooks by *Basia-AlmostTheBrave:iconBasia-AlmostTheBrave:

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just a part of a little late birthday gift for the lovely Gosia :iconfossil-cloud: my dear (and greatly talented as well as incredibly funny and witty) friend, because she's is fascinated with poison books, so I thought I would make her a kind of an instructional picture about how to make poison books;)
I may move it to scraps, because i'm not really pleased with how it turned out to look like:paranoid:I mean especially in that photo of the original

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*Basia-AlmostTheBrave has a very characteristic style: somehow mixing solemnity with humor, a bit of darkness and sunlit innocence. how to make poisonbooks is one of those oddly balanced, endearing works that effectively transports the viewer to her own fantastic world. (Featured by `stigmatattoo)

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=westernphilosopher Dec 7, 2007, 4:32:07 PM
I quite like it, for what it's worth. :)

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*invent-a-shell Dec 7, 2007, 4:32:55 PM
This is amazing. :O

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~vladder Dec 7, 2007, 4:42:17 PM
Śmierć jest przepiękny. Śmierć jest najlepszy.

A jakież to są książki, te Poison Books?
(poza Henrym Millerem? ;p)
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~PorcelainFawn Dec 7, 2007, 4:43:03 PM
this is sooo lovely! your friend is quite lucky. I'm a little jealous ;)
forgive my silly question, but what is a poison book?
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~fishbot Dec 7, 2007, 4:50:44 PM
its a beautiful composition, i love the colors too

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*Basia-AlmostTheBrave Dec 7, 2007, 5:03:58 PM
dziekuje:hug: tez bylam ze smierci najbardziej zadowolona:nod: (ojej troszke to dziwnie zabrzmialo:zombie:)

a poison books to - najlepiej zacytuje Gosie, bo sama nie jestem pewna, czy rozumiec pod tym pojeciem cala dobra literature, czy tylko te naprawde ekstremalnie toksyczne rzeczy:confused: - wg. definicji Gosi to "te zbójeckie,piękne do bólu, piękne bólem, te, po przeczytaniu których masz siniaki na ciele, bo cię własna dusza skopała do nieprzytomności." (czyli, ze Henry Miller chyba sie zalicza:))
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~Arempilu Dec 7, 2007, 5:14:15 PM
uah..wonderfull!!!
...what's written in these books?

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*Basia-AlmostTheBrave Dec 7, 2007, 5:19:00 PM
:bow:
but why to be jealous? I could make it so much better:stupidme:

according to Gosia's definition - the poisonbooks are the ones that affect your mind totally and toxically, painfully beautiful and painful to read,
for me such books were for instance (lemme think:meditation:)... "The Possessed" or "The Brothers Karamazov" or Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell" or Burroughs "Naked Lunch" or Budelaire, or even Milton's "Paradise Lost", and many many more, I think the best literature is always poisonous somehow, so it's pretty clever of Gosia to be obsessed with the poison books first of all:nod:,wouldn't you agree?
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*Basia-AlmostTheBrave Dec 7, 2007, 5:24:19 PM
:whisper: all the deadly poisons of good literature.
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