12. Rosenberg 3.2 = "...of profanity, after all."
A speed reviewer's reactions to an inanimate book, 13th in a series of 284. "Rosenberg 3.0 Not Violin Music" = original, "Rosenberg 3.1" = art book and "3.1.1" the version for public consumption.
I read, I thought, I wrote.
It made it to facebook. It made it to a museum exhibit. It made it to a book launching party with dogs. It made it here.
Originally Posted March 14, 2015 Written March 2, 2015
On March 2, 2015, while living on B.C. Welfare ($600 at the month at this time of writing), I opened “Rosenberg 3.0 Not Violin Music” at random (pre-selected via a random number generator) and saw this for the first time. What would you write if it were you undertaking the same challenge?
It is at this point that I seem to be wishing to insert personal experience into the perceptual analysis, whether it was called for or not. After reading the above, I wrote this:
Before being a substack series, after being posted as a facebook series, there was this print and online version made available to the masses by the Rosenberg Foundation in Australia:
…which are still available with payments going to the maintenance of the Rosenberg Archives and Museum (even though it seems to be in a “comatose” status for now).
Here are links to free previews of the “original” (3.0) and the art-object versions (3.1, the three copies currently valued at $8,000) and public-consumption version (3.1.1) Unlike the previous two tomes in this series of examinations of the world of Dr. Johannes Rosenberg (The Pink Violin and Violin Music in the Age of Shopping), mail order copies (digital and print) are unlimited but only as long as the self-publisher “Blurb” provider continues to survive in a vicious capitalistic literary landscape.
https://www.blurb.com/b/5664972-rosenberg-3-0