Bio:

Sean Fraser was born in 1953.


His Grandfather introduced him to Chas. Addams and Pogo in 1965. [His Grandfather's complete set of Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, i.e., The Harvard Classics, would be read in the 1980s.] Ballantine Paperbacks and Dover Books were essential. Mad Magazine and, later, Zap Comix &c were read. He was introduced to the works of Edward Gorey in 1970. A fine foundation. 


He graduated High School; and, thereafter, was a writer who studied under Professors Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Apollinaire following High School. His written work includes teleplays, screenplays, white papers, adverts, procedures, manuals, et al. The writing style of his literary works is a portmanteau of Romanticisme, Décadentisme, and Symbolisme wherein those written works may be considered variations on a Theme in which leitmotifs of Chaos, Existence, and Dreams are used in all after having been seen at the Peep-shows and Sideshows of Logic and Reason.


Théorèmes, Rhymes & Tales: Voyages et «Pièces condamnées, galanteries, epigraphes, pièces diverses & bouffonneries1» (including maxims, adagia, and aphorisms, gnomes and saws [unless otherwise acknowledged]) have been written by him. «La Femme Eidôlon : A Tale» eBook [http://self.gutenberg.org/eBooks/WPLBN0004102400-La-Femme-Eid-lon--A-Tale-by-Fraser-Sean.aspx] was written over a Thirty-year Entr'acte. He has Chimera pièces, too. [https://chimeragroup.wordpress.com/category/sean-fraser/] And, an article on book-collecting at Empty Mirror Books [https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/collecting/book-collecting-mirth-marvels].


[ @TheatreSean https://twitter.com/TheatreSean ]


General Information:

HIS THIRTEEN STAGES OF WRITING


1. The Walrus and The Carpenter : Meter and rhyme

2. The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits)[1] : Meter, Rhyme and Structure

3. A Midsummer Night’s Dream : Meter and Rhyme, Sentence structure, Schemes

4. Lewis Carroll[2] : Portmanteau

5. William Morris[3] and Edward Gorey[4] : Word use and Self-Publishing

6. Charles Baudelaire : [Original Texts] Word use and Schemes

7. Stéphane Mallarmé : [Original Texts] Mythos, Schemes, Word use, Line structure and Work structure

8. Guillaume Apollinaire : [Original Texts] Word use, Line structure and Work structure

9. Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, and François Rabelais : Mythos and Polemics

10. Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, Raymond Roussel, H. P. Lovecraft, and Rikki Ducornet : Mythos and Narrative

11. James Joyce[5] : Word use and Line structure

12. Kenneth Patchen : Portmanteau

13. Ambrose Bierce, Lord Byron, Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, Raymond Chandler, G. K. Chesterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Duchamp, William Faulkner, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Eugène Ionesco, Washington Irving, John Keats, Arthur Machen, Richard Matheson, Herman Melville, Mervyn Peake, Edgar Poe, Sade, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Rod Serling[6] : Schemes, Narrative & Divers


[It should be noted that Stage 13 began during the first Stage and

continued the length of this endeavor when those Authors’ works were

found and read with Influences that were forgotten after subsumption of

their Lessons.]


See The Annotated Snark by Martin Gardner.

See The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Martin Gardner.

The Kelmscott Press.

The Fantod Press.

See Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the

Ordinary Reader (also published as ReJoyce) and Joysprick: An

Introduction to the Language of James Joyce by Anthony Burgess.

In 1974, I attended Sherwood Oaks Experimental College for a

screenwriting workshop given by Rod Serling from which I learned

more than how to write a script.


 
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Zoë; or, On the Clockwork Sphæres of Paradise : Volume 4: Intermède

By: by Sean Fraser

It is a Conte de fées of Zoë on a promenade through Avallon and Les Ardennes in France, 1913.

Divertissement: France, 1913 — It is, by Nature, in the stillness of the first Season all plots are laid, Winter: they are with obscure coruscalences by zoetrope set against that canvas of nebulæ in the murmuring Dark.

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Zoë; or, On the Clockwork Sphæres of Paradise : Volume 3: Escapade

By: by Sean Fraser

It is a Conte de fées of Zoë on a promenade through Hookland (England), Mâcon (France), and Bucarest (Romania) in 1913.

Interlude: France, 1913 — The Melancholia influent had passed and those who would set intrigues from Orbis paradisiacus were silenced; the arrangements of Change originating in 1871 were concluded by those of Orbis limbus; and, so it was that Life continued as before in Praesentis vagus as Humanity waxed obsolescent by Man’s contrived magnificence and mores.

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Zoë; or, On the Clockwork Sphæres of Paradise : Volume 2: Entr'acte

By: by Sean Fraser

It is a Conte de fées of Zoë on a promenade through Saint-Étienne, Lyon, and Clermont in France, 1913.

Entr’acte: France, 1913 — Les Dæmons æternels in this play shall perform as they have for centuries done; and, these acts, in which they are seen in this Modern Age, that may have been written in custom-houses of Lunacy when in other times were written in athenæums sublimis ab undaes, shall succor those affrighted and dismayed.

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Zoë; or, On the Clockwork Sphæres of Paradise : Volume 1: Prelude

By: by Sean Fraser

It is a Fairy tale of Zoë on a promenade through Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Vese, Grand Canyon-du-Verdon, Zone-Saint-Cloud, and Tournon in France, 1913.

L’Ancien Régime: France, 1913 — Modern vicissitudes in les Belles Époques had ascended in a progressive era which begat the Machine Age. Presidents, Lords, Kings, Courts, Parliaments and Congresses and Leagues were belaboured against the Senses of Reason and Logic as they indulged with the Seven Deadly Vices: Sloth, Jealousy, Greed, Ignorance, Intolerance, Despair and Fear; and, in the intrigues performed, they would be sent forth on that voyage where all are passenger.

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La Femme Eidôlon : A Tale

By: by Sean Fraser

A Concrete Verse poem which may be considered an elegiac Idyll on Beauty as Idée was written over a Thirty-year Entr'acte. It was composed of and with occurrences that began in 1963 of which some lines may be found in poems from "Miss Crabtree's Daughters" and "On the Nature of Existence".

Light as ponderous settling fog obscures | Reflections of flesh once was | Hundred-year mirror | Age has | photographs belied | They silently exist | by prusse Moon lit: | forgotten | were Reminiscences to be found; | Sorrows in Solitude solace consoled by one not seen; | embraces and caresses adumbrated | by Presence; | Existence frolicked imp-like: | Revelments paled | Resplendences paled | The currents set by Chronos slowed in the dark of Chaos; | And Beauty smiling |...

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