Zoë : or, The Clockwork Spheres of Paradise
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].
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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.]
1 See The Annotated Snark by Martin Gardner.
2 See The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Martin Gardner.
3 The Kelmscott Press.
4 The Fantod Press.
5 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.
6 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.