Impulse – Volume 9 Numbers 3 + 4, Spring 1982

Impulse – Volume 9 Numbers 3 + 4, Spring 1982
Author: Eldon Garnet (Ed.)
Publisher: Impulse [b]
Language: English
Pages: 70
Size: 28 x 28 cm
Weight: 215 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: -
Availability: In stock
Price: €20.00
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Product Description

Publisher: Eldon Garnet.
Editors: Eldon Garnet, Shelagh Alexander, and James Dunn.
Contributing Editors: Judith Doyle (Toronto) and Lisa Baumgardner (New York)
Editorial Assistant: Robbyn Grant.
Design: Shelagh Alexander.
Advertising: Robin Wall.
Typography: Alphabets.
Mascot Trainee: Severin.

Table of Contents:
Frank Geiger, ‘Illusion of Survival’; Joan (Adaire) Brouwer, ‘Release and Detonation’; Susan Britton, ‘Fiscal Dread’; Comite De Defensa, ‘Uruguay Prison’; Caroline Simmons, ‘Herpes’; Peter Wronski, ‘TV: The Semiotic Conspiracy’; Peter Wronski, ‘Fear’s Invention’; Kenneth Decker, ‘Where Seldom is “Herd”‘; Lisa Baumgardner, ‘Diary Excerpt’; Eduardo Galeano, ‘Of Virgins and Saints’; Lynne Tillman, ‘Diary of a Masochist’; Karl Jirgens, ‘A Bedtime Story’; John Wadsworth, ‘Stars False/Stars Fallen’; Dotty Attie; Michael Merrill, ‘Birthday’; James Dunn/Eldon Garnet, ‘David Cronenberg’; James Dunn, ‘Topology of a Monster: Jaws’; Gord Smith, ‘Anatomy of a Special Effects Technician’; James Wines, ‘Fear of the Albany Mall’; Keen, ‘Span’; Andrew James Paterson, ‘Glenn Branca’; P. L. Noble, ‘Jules Baptiste’.

Editorial:

Patiently we waited to be scared. Obligingly, the images and stories poured in – grotesque faces, contorted bodies, distorted situations, gruesome accidents. Nothing scared us. It was all too contrived. Looking for images of the Hiroshima aftermath, a librarian asked: “You’re not going to say anything bad about the bomb, are you?” We realized that we did not really fear extraterrestrial invasion or supernatural possession. We discovered that our fears were much closer to home. We fear the world as it is. We fear ourselves as we are. We no longer have enough time to speculate and anticipate future fears. In our attempts to create a world in which nothing “bad” could happen, we have created a world which is almost unfit for human habitation. “Of course you know that millions of lives were saved by the bomb,” added the librarian. We did not fear her; we feared the way she had so conveniently neglected to learn from the past. One bomb, one city.

The Editors would like to thank the following people for giving their time and energy: Andy Paterson, Amy Wilson, Kenny Baird, Tim Jocelyn, Leighton Barrett, Michael Woods, Aaron Milrad, Carol Off, and especially The Cameron (Herb, Paul, Debbie) for providing Impulse with an office when our furnace blew up.

-Eldon Garnet-