What The Math Is A Book Anyway?

On the 28th January 2015, our first real site specific seminar was based on the idea of what a library

is, what a library is ultimately doing and what in turn this means for the books in the library. Does

the incorporation of different materials presented in books change the meaning and ideology of a

library? Does it change what a library does? Does it change a library’s social context? What if the

categorisation of books was a massive contributing factor in how a person learns? Perhaps libraries

should be more social, perhaps a library should become what it entails in its book.

In this seminar, we were asked to clear our minds of all thoughts (if that’s even possible) and

subconsciously write 50 book titles. Whilst doing this task I adopted a method in which I counted

back from ten whilst controlling my breathing in order lose focus of anything around me. I had to do

this several times whilst performing the task in order to keep my desired mind state.

50 Potential Books: (yeah, right?)

1. 72 Virgins & Counting

2. The Complete Collection Of The History Of The Lizard Kingdom

3. What If We’re Not Alone?

4. Conspiracies theories about 911

5. Charles Manson: Our Lord & Saviour

6. This is becoming apparently futile

7. Life as we know could come to an end

8. The only thing you’ll ever need to read

9. 9/11 was a hoax

10. Stephen Fry is a Lizard

11. Bring me that horizon and other things Jack Sparrow said that no one really understands

12. OK, time for plan B

13. Wake & Bake

14. The Cruel intentions of David Cameron

15. Dragons and China

16. The Terrorist’s will win

17. North Korea: the Script for the musical

18. The Theories behind the conspiracies

19. Nuclear relationships: A blast of a time

20. Wibbly Wobbly Wongle Dong

21. The A-Z of Lizards

22. The encyclopaedia of the troubled north

23. Suicide Season is over

24. Bass is best

25. Come toward the light and live in fear forever

26. The Evil Living

27. Cut off from all

28. How to assassinate a president/prime minister or other worldly leader

29. Deicide

30. The Yoghurt Thieves

31. The universe isn’t expanding

32. I think you’re the fucking antichrist

33. Why are you wearing that stupid man suit

34. Farage is a dictator

35. Why being political is boring

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36. What if we’re all to blame?

37. Or Maybe not

38. Grandma Death

39. Scream

40. How to have common courtesy

41. An open letter to no one

42. Watkins should hang

43. How to kill a vampire-werewolf hybrid

44. How to set a fire

45. How to not get caught

46. How to not plead guilty

47. Solar Plexus

48. Smoke

49. Cooking with fire

50. Breaking the 3rd wall

Okay, so maybe some of them are a little unorthodox. Next we were asked to come up with a few

categories in order to section these books off from each other. So here they are:

Potential Sections:

1. Conspiracy theories

2. How to:

3. Miscellaneous Items

4. Why we all hate politics

5. Statements

So maybe I’m a little disturbed but whatever, not like I’m actually going to publish one of these

books. Oh Wait…

Billy Cummock

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