53 Comments

1. April 27th, 2012 / 9:09 pm Anonymous—

   For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.

   I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least, of his peculiar disposition; for every one knows that this early air, whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; and as in time of the cholera, some people go about with a camphorated handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise, against all mortal tribulations, Stubb’s tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent. – Melville

2. April 27th, 2012 / 9:13 pm Anonymous—

   I i want it

3. April 27th, 2012 / 9:21 pm Tyler Crumrine—

   This looks absolutely fascinating. The pdf alone is beautiful. I can hardly imagine what it must be like bound.

4. April 27th, 2012 / 9:26 pm Bobby Dixon—

   I am staying in on a Friday night just so I have an opportunity to hug this book  

5. April 27th, 2012 / 9:27 pm Shannon—

   I am at work on a Friday night. I want this book.

6. April 27th, 2012 / 10:04 pm OG—

   Love the cover art work. Beautiful. 

7. April 27th, 2012 / 10:19 pm Scott Riley Irvine—

   Yes, please. 

8. April 27th, 2012 / 10:33 pm Luke Weldon—

   cccccccomment. me love book.

9. April 27th, 2012 / 10:40 pm Bobby Dixon—

   Got off work two hours ago. You beat me. 

10. April 27th, 2012 / 11:02 pm Anonymous—

    visiting the parents is a seemingly good deed–though the seams seem to be slipping. I’m in my highschool bedroom–bedded, bound–I need that book!–I need not I, but heads whose names are always and never known all the time so we can sleep and breathe and then make omelets for everyone in the morning.

11. April 27th, 2012 / 11:10 pm Drew Kunz—

    lovely.

12. April 28th, 2012 / 12:20 am Anonymous—

    ah ken, you are the Ark Codex! you silly goose

13. April 28th, 2012 / 12:46 am Anonymous—

    [wish I was clever enough to earn this book with dumb words]

14. April 28th, 2012 / 1:16 am Michael Filippone—

    I would love to win and read this book.

15. April 28th, 2012 / 1:39 am William VanDenBerg—

    Oh! Calamari!

16. April 28th, 2012 / 1:52 am Chadwick Redden—

    Hi

17. April 28th, 2012 / 2:00 am Christopher Lirette—

    I got some magic to work on it.

18. April 28th, 2012 / 4:27 am Anonymous—

    I need a mystery.

19. April 28th, 2012 / 4:27 am Anonymous—

    I need a mystery.

20. April 28th, 2012 / 4:28 am Anonymous—

    I need a mystery.

21. April 28th, 2012 / 5:15 am Jiggy Athilingam—

    alone in the mud yes the dark yes sure yes panting yes someone hears me no no one hears me no murmuring sometimes yes when the panting stops yes not at other times no in the mud yes to the mud yes my voice yes mine yes not another’s no mine alone yes sure yes when the panting stops yes on and off yes a few words yes a few scraps yes that no one hears no but less and less no answer LESS AND LESS yes

22. April 28th, 2012 / 7:07 am MLillie—

    Oope!

23. April 28th, 2012 / 7:09 am MLillie—

    Oope!

24. April 28th, 2012 / 7:39 am Jackson Nieuwland—

    lol if some variation of “i want this book” wins. i’m all for honesty but where is the honesty in that simplicity? offer more of yourself and you might receive something in return

25. April 28th, 2012 / 8:14 am Mark Thomas Stevenson—

    This’d be really nice to have.

26. April 28th, 2012 / 9:09 am Jeremy Bauer—

    thanks for putting up these contests all the time. it’s a lottery i can get behind.

27. April 28th, 2012 / 9:10 am Jeremy Bauer—

    i <3 witchcraft 

28. April 28th, 2012 / 9:19 am Sugar Bear—

    To make French Macaroones.

    Wash a pound of the newest and the best Iordane Almonds in
    three or foure waters, to take away the rednesse from their out-side, lay
    them in a Bason of warme water all night, the next day blanch them, and
    dry them with a faire cloath, beat them in a stone morter, vntill they
    be reasonably fine, put to them halfe a pound of fine beaten Sugar, and
    so beat it to a perfect Paste, then put in halfe a dozen spoonefuls of
    good Damaske Rose-water, three graines of Amber-greece, when you haue beaten
    all this together, dry it on a chafingdish of coales vntill it grow white
    and stiffe, then take it off the fire, and put the whites of two new laid
    Egs first beaten into froath, and so stirre it well together, then lay
    them on wafers in fashion of little long rowles, and so bake them in an
    Ouen as hot as for Manchet, but you must first let the heat of the Ouen
    passe ouer before you put them in, when they rise white and light, take
    them out of the Ouen, and put them in a warme platter, and set them againe
    into the warme Ouen, & so let them remain foure or fiue houres, and
    then they wil be throughly dry, but if you like them better being moist,
    then dry them not after the first baking.
     

29. April 28th, 2012 / 9:42 am Anonymous—

    Ooh, ooh, pick me!

30. April 28th, 2012 / 9:44 am Anonymous—

    I could use a tasty beverage…

31. April 28th, 2012 / 10:24 am Richard Grayson—

    “The old folk from Indiana and Iowa and Illinois, from Boston and Kansas
    City and Des Moines, they sold their homes and their stores, and they
    came here by train and by automobile to the land of sunshine, to die in
    the sun, with just enough money to live until the sun killed them, tore
    themselves out by the roots in their last days, deserted the smug
    prosperity of Kansas City and Chicago and Peoria to find a place in the
    sun. And when they got here they found that other and greater thieves
    had already taken possession, that even the sun belonged to the others;
    Smith and Jones and Parker, druggist, banker, baker, dust of Chicago and
    Cincinnati and Cleveland on their shoes, doomed to die in the sun, a
    few dollars in the bank, enough to subscribe to the Los Angeles Times,
    enough to keep alive the illusion that this was paradise, that their
    little papier-mâché homes were castles.”

    ―
    John Fante,

    Ask the Dust 

32. April 28th, 2012 / 10:41 am Anonymous—

    …

33. April 28th, 2012 / 11:46 am Buck Wilkins—

     Thank you for reminding me to read Ask the Dust again. Maybe I’ll have to go an adventure to hunt down a copy in the libraries of Northern Virginia. Bonus points awarded based on distance between where the book was found and the National Mall.

34. April 28th, 2012 / 12:01 pm Michael Jacobson—

    It’s probably the greatest book published this year. I want to win one!

35. April 28th, 2012 / 12:28 pm j orloski—

    i’d love this shit for free

36. April 28th, 2012 / 2:14 pm Anonymous—

    want

37. April 28th, 2012 / 2:15 pm Jeff Jackson—

    This looks great & mysterious 
    a textual 
    j;u;n;g;l;e

38. April 28th, 2012 / 3:15 pm Ben Roylance—

    HAND IT OVER. I’M NEEDLES

39. April 28th, 2012 / 3:45 pm Barrett White—

     
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40. April 28th, 2012 / 4:32 pm Anonymous—

    I agree with Michael. A truly beautiful and historically significant contribution to the post-literate movement.

    Also, PICK ME, PICK ME!

41. April 28th, 2012 / 4:45 pm Anonymous—

    but you are cleverer

42. April 28th, 2012 / 5:21 pm Molly Tolsky—

    Hey, um, I would like this!

43. April 28th, 2012 / 5:24 pm Daniel Long—

    I would like that book, please. Thank you! 

44. April 28th, 2012 / 7:32 pm Anonymous—

    This book looks brilliant. Absolutely gorgeous art and design. I am glad these things are being preserved.

45. April 28th, 2012 / 9:01 pm Nathan Curtis Warner—

    Off on a tangent, my professor sings,
    in a wailing sort of way, the makings
    of Amy Hempel’s “Tumble Home”
    and his drooling aspirations have now
    become apparent for the first time
    Beyond anything, even writing well, 
    he wants us to learn how to make love 
    with literature each and every day.LET ME HAVE IT AND IT WILL AGE WITH THE GRACE
    OF A CAT FALLING ON ALL FOURS, BUT WITH A TORNEAR FROM A FIGHT WITH A DOG OR PERHAPS A FEWSTAINS OF COFFEE AND SALIVA. 

46. April 29th, 2012 / 10:34 am Samuel Sargent—

    I like turtles.

47. April 29th, 2012 / 3:13 pm Henry Fry—

    Sick. Gimme them sweet leaves, bra. 

48. April 29th, 2012 / 9:37 pm Ashley Ford—

    I’d like that book.

49. April 29th, 2012 / 11:09 pm Anonymous—

    I really like how beautiful it looks. It’s a beautiful book. Now if I could see it in person I’d be one happy sloth. 

50. April 30th, 2012 / 12:48 pm Jamie Felton—

    Me, please.

51. April 30th, 2012 / 10:10 pm Jonathan King—

    Yes, please.

52. May 1st, 2012 / 11:39 pm Ken Baumann—

    You won! Email your address to satorpress at gmail dot com.

53. May 3rd, 2012 / 3:45 pm Merzmensch—

    I know, I am too late, but I want this MERZ-Book. I think, Schwitters would became insane seeing it. lanke trr gll.