Book selected: YOURS, by Phillip Callow
New title: Sweet Nothings
The original novel took the form of “an autobiographical love-hate letter from a woman to the man who once gave her short lived happiness and longer lasting pain.”
Keen to continue the theme of letters and intimate communications through the altering of this book, the new book form takes the shape of a collection of personal letters tied together in a secretive bundle: The pages from the original book as ‘letters’ in the envelopes - words cut out of each page are re-arranged on the front of the envelope to form a new jibberish-like narrative of ‘sweet nothings’ between two lovers.
Given that it is considered rude to read other peoples’ personal letters, the fact that these words and emotions are on the outside of the envelope suggests some sort of wild abandon way in which these messages are communicated: so intimately, and yet also so boldly, with an apparent disregard for immediate surroundings or onlookers.
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