Impulse – Volume 15 Number 2, Summer 1989 (The Truth of Broken Sticks)

We spend our life hiding the truth. Education, religion, "the decorative life", are three enveloppes created to conceal the truth. However, there would be no art, no science without "truth", which is the driving power, the means of control for every morning or useful work that man has created.
This cocnern about "truth" is always present in us, around us, everywhere, for truth possesses the force of natural non-controllable events. There is the tempest, the cyclone in it. It can be the cause of irreparable disasters. The "enfant terrible" who speaks the truth is a nightmare for the rest of the family.

- After Fernand LEGER.

II. Publication

Editors: Eldon Garnet, Brian Boigon, Judith Doyle, Donna Lypchuk, and Carolyn White

Contributing Editors: Marc Glassman, Sylvère Lotringer, Alberto Manguel, and Jeanne Randolph

Art Direction: Carolyn White


II. Table of Contents

Sophia Vayda, ‘Ecology’; Eldon Garnet, ‘Homeless’; Tom Sherman, ‘Nature by Any Other Name Is ….’; Alexander Pilis, ‘Architecture Snack Lunch’; Michael Balser and Andy Fabo, ‘Survival of the Delirious’; Ron Geyshick and Judith Doyle, ‘Cannibal Woman’; Brian Scott, ‘Anaesthesia’s Room’; Simon Watney, ‘Laocoon’; Jocelyn Laurence, ‘The Hurricane Party’; Ron Geyshick and Judith Doyle, ‘A Windigo’; Graham Coughtry, ‘Smoking with Philip Marlowe’; Tony Scherman, ‘The Speed of Desire’; Donna Lypchuk, ‘Hypergrafea’; Ron Geyshick and Judith Doyle, ‘Inside Me’; James Purdy, ‘True’; Carolyn White, ‘Safe’

Condition note: the cover might be in worn conditions due to its long-term storage