7. Weird stuff starts happening to 7 people in an apartment building. 7 is a number you will see often in this book because 7 is important (not really). One of the 7 dies, leaving behind a key - but to a door to where? One thing’s for sure: 7 will be involved! Or will it…? 7.
Over the course of ten letters from February 1903 to December 1908, Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke gave artistic advice to a younger chap from a similar background who was aspiring to follow in his (only slightly older) footsteps. After Rilke died in 1926, Franz Xaver Kappus, the young poet of the title, collected and published them to share the good advice and insight into Rilke’s life with everyone.
Keanu’s back from space or somewhere and talking psychically with a doctor who shoots ink from her eyes. Why? Cos he wants to grow a giant red metal bird from his chest. I know, THAT old chestnut again! Let’s get stoopid one last time with John Thicko, Kindter Surprise and Garney the Dinosaur in RTRDD, Volume 3.
There are few things more tedious than listening to someone who begins a sentence with “I had a weird dream last night…” so imagine how unutterably dull an entire book of that drivel would be to read. Well, I must be dreaming myself because someone actually published that horrendous idea for a book and it’s by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast!
