Described as "a guide to the extreme present", and a "self-help book for planet earth", The Age of Earthquakes is a quick-fire compendium of thoughts from Doug – along with his friends, writer Shumon Basar and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Described as "a guide to the extreme present," and a "self-help book for planet earth," The Age of Earthquakes is a quick-fire compendium of thoughts from Doug along with two friends, writer Shumon Basar and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Its front pages tend to be compendiums of outraged articles about British deaths from American fire and the havoc wreaked by American bombs gone awry in Baghdad; the paper has printed articles in its news pages by, among others, a British "human shield" who was ejected from Baghdad along with his comrades, even after one volunteered to stay and fight on the side of the Iraqi Army.
Mentioned several times in the New Testament (e.g., Matthew, Mark, Luke, and James) as a place in which fire will destroy the wicked, it also is noted in the Talmud, a compendium of Jewish law, lore, and commentary, as a place of purification, after which one is released from further torture.
Fired by "the undeniable pleasure of losing control", Szifron's scabrously satirical compendium owes as much to the American TV show Tales from the Crypt as to the scandalous European subversions of Luís Buñuel.
It is a compendium of allusions.
(1995), is a one-volume compendium.
5/28 † Old Apparatus, "Compendium" (Sullen Tone).
A pop-up dinosaur compendium.
