Showcases discoveries and inventions such as: An African mud-sculpture representing a naked child; a road-mender's tool which, when activated by the weather, creates a mosaic of human teeth; an aquarium in which human's can breathe and in which a depilated cat is seen stimulating the partially decomposed head of Danton.

Containing the texts of Alfred Jarry's three Ubu plays, this book also has biographical notes, an introduction by Simon Watson Taylor, and the text of Jarry's Writings on the Theatre .

Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his "true profession." From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed a schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more than a thousand short stories and prose pieces. Walser's contemporary admirers were few but well-pl