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Messieurs Russel Ash et Brian Lake ne sont pas un tandem d\u2019assassins sortis d\u2019un livre de Thomas De Quincey ou de Marcel Schwob mais une paire de bibliomanes timbr\u00e9s comme on les aime. De leurs moissons infatigables dans les brocantes, les charity shops<\/em> et chez les bouquinistes, ils ont rapport\u00e9 plusieurs milliers d\u2019ouvrages plus improbables les uns que les autres. Bizarre Books. A Compendium of Classic Oddities<\/em> distille la substantifique moelle de leurs folles trouvailles. Qu\u2019on y picore \u00e0 ses moments perdus ou qu\u2019on l\u2019\u00e9pluche page apr\u00e8s page \u2014 car cet inventaire engendre une accoutumance grave \u2014, on y fera provision de titres \u00e0 l\u2019humour involontaire, que l\u2019\u00e9volution de la langue a lest\u00e9s de sous-entendus scabreux \u00e0 l\u2019insu de leur innocent auteur : Drummer Dick\u2019s Discharge, Games You Can Play with your Pussy, Shag the Pony, Queer Chums, Erections on Allotments, The Nature and Tendancy of Balls, Seriously and Candidly Considered in Two Sermons, Cock Tugs, Scouts in Bondage, Invisible Dick, Two Men Came Together<\/em>, etc.<\/p>\n On y arpentera tous les champs du savoir, de la botanique \u00e0 la sexualit\u00e9 et des sciences appliqu\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019hygi\u00e8ne domestique en passant par la linguistique et le droit. On y croisera chemin faisant une procession ahurissante de th\u00e9ories fumeuses et de manuels d\u00e9di\u00e9s aux mati\u00e8res les plus absurdes. On v\u00e9rifiera par l\u00e0 que, quelque aberrant sujet que puisse concevoir l\u2019esprit humain, il s\u2019est trouv\u00e9 un savant Cosinus, un inventeur en herbe ou un illumin\u00e9 pour lui consacrer un ouvrage avec un s\u00e9rieux imperturbable. Vous r\u00eaviez de maigrir par la pri\u00e8re ou de fabriquer un Stradivarius dans votre cuisine ? Quelqu\u2019un y a pens\u00e9 pour vous !<\/p>\n On constatera en somme qu\u2019une simple nomenclature de titres de livres est susceptible de provoquer l\u2019hilarit\u00e9 \u00e0 toutes les pages. Merci \u00e0 H, complice en choses anglaises, pour cet \u00e9patant cadeau.<\/p>\n \u00c9chantillon<\/strong> Messieurs Russel Ash et Brian Lake ne sont pas un tandem d\u2019assassins sortis d\u2019un livre de Thomas De Quincey ou de Marcel Schwob mais une paire de bibliomanes timbr\u00e9s comme on les aime. De leurs moissons infatigables dans les brocantes, les charity shops et chez les bouquinistes, ils ont rapport\u00e9 plusieurs milliers d\u2019ouvrages plus improbables […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-au-fil-des-pages","category-choses-anglaises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe Supernatural History of Worms
\nUnderstand Your Tortoise
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\nThe Second-Hand Parrot : A Complete Pet-Owner\u2019s Manual
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Russel Ash et Brian LAKE, Bizarre Books. A Compendium of Classic Oddities<\/em>. Harper Perrenial, 2007.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/img8\/bb02.jpg\")
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