Do you ever think about how Martians control our minds and machinery? Alice May Williams is one correspondent with such astronomical concerns in No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again: Letters to Mount Wilson Observatory 1915-1935.
This book is a collection of letters written by eccentrics who addressed their bizarre and often urgent notions of the universe to the astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, California. Published quietly in 1993 by the skewed visionaries at the Museum of Jurassic Technology - a cult site in Los Angeles known for its deadpan presentation of artificial science - Letters is derived from their ongoing exhibit of the same name.
Letters is a must-read for renegade cosmologists. Its idiosyncratic authors' rants include earnest - and often paranoid - theories on such topics as celestial dust and "God's electrical machine."
These extraordinary scrawlings - complete with grammatical inaccuracies and excessive, emphatic use of the UPPER CASE - expose a compelling stroke of true LUNAcy.
No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again: Letters to Mount Wilson Observatory 1915-1935, edited by Sarah Simons: US$9.95. Museum of Jurassic Technology: +1 (310) 836 6131, fax +1 (310) 287 2267.
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