We're publishing on the 111th birthday of one of our heroes, René Daumal. Poet, warrior, magician - he remains to us today through his two novels, both masterpieces: A Night of Serious Drinking and Mount Analogue.
There are no videos of these works, both published long before the internet. Mount Analogue was the inspiration for Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain, the 1973 avant-garde classic financed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
So spit, spot - in the spirit of Daumal's beloved pataphysics - "the science of imaginary solutions" - we're going to illustrate his birthday art with that of his own personal god, Alfred Jarry, author of Ubu Roi and uncrowned king of the surrealists.
First performed in Paris in 1896, Ubu Roi is particularly apt for today, as it tells the evil tale of a pompous, megalomaniacal tyrant who uses deception to seize power and terrorize a large, sophisticated country.
Closing out the ceremonies at great length, in Daumal's honor we drink our first Toast to the Idiots!
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