2003.09.01_15h45m09 est link

~ as our fans may have been able to discern, the date of august 31, 2003, marks the ‘new’ literary release from the angry red planet. now available for purchase is ‘spain, recovered’; please see the zines section for ordering details.

~ a note on the text

The manuscript upon which this text is based was originally composed during a travel through Spain in the winter of 1996. That manuscript, with few modifications, was published as ‘spain’ in March of 1997. At this time it was unknown, but it was to be the first release by the publishing mark ‘the angry red planet’.

While preparing to reprint ‘spain’ for our clamouring audience, an editorial decision was made concerning the alteration of both the content and layout of the text. The original layout of the pages were found to be confusing; for example, the existence of conditions such as passages that should be distinct being forced together. Also, due to a lack of scrutiny, numerous typographic errata were permitted into the final print; a more rigourous editing process was to be undertaken to remove them. In addition, several factual errors, attributed to desultory organization of the source material, were uncovered; the application of research would serve to clear any misrepresentations of the people and places of Spain. Finally, because of the primitive state of technology in 1997, the images throughout ‘spain’ were of a poor quality; the original documents were taken from the angry red planet archives and digitized for a superior image resolution.

However, that which began as a handful of minor cosmetic and grammatical changes grew into a scopious retooling of the entire work. Whereas the original manuscript was written in situ, it contains many stream of consciousness episodes for which the reader, who does not see the whole picture or environment, will be able to muster limited appreciation at best. While the sequence of events has not been altered, an attempt has been made to add colour to this picture – an expanse of this environment. With entire pages freshly crafted, using both the original manuscript and the publication ‘spain’, it was clear that the finished product was something other than a edited reprint of a previous edition.

Instead, the result is a altered account of the same set of occurrences; the events are repeated, but the method in which they are relayed is new. The first publication remains a slightly separate work; it still stands a document on its own, albeit with an outcome divergent from the intentions of this one. Memories that we felt were lost in the original publication are now found in the new one. Herewith, ‘spain’ is not reprinted or re-released; it is, in fact, recovered.

~ happy labor day.
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