The Reading Room
Subtitle: a novella in three parts
Edition: ebook
Publisher: Schism Neuronics  https://ansgarallen.com/the-reading-room/
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
ISBN-13: 9798497442090
First sentence: The city was surrounded on three sides by marsh and on
the fourth looked out to the estuary.
Description: BOOK DESCRIPTION

The Reading Room is a novella in three parts. In the first, a city is described in its attempts to build a worm farm as an incursion on the marsh. In the second, the command is given to go and see the pig farmer. In the third, the arrangement of Parisian abbatoirs is discussed.

Across each account texts are encountered, Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, Büchner’s Force and Matter, Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist, and a Description of the Abbatoirs of Paris.

Every text witholds its secrets but lends a piece of itself to The Reading Room where the determination to read exists alongside the uncertainty of its effects.
Notes: online edition is free
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1258sjAI1kNdYrRPW-5iyhUGW2tPy_ffH/view
Table of contents: title: 01 The reading room; title: 55 The pig farm; title: 69  The report