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OVO 12

November 1991. 200 numbered copies. 60 pages, 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches. Black and white photocopy.

“At every turn in its thought, society will find us waiting.”

Publisher/Editor: Trevor Blake

About OVO

OVO is a magazine published on an irregular basis introducing new works to the public domain. Issues are available in electronic form free of charge, printed editions at a nominal fee. Complete information on subscriptions, back issues, limited editions, errata, books and more is available on the Internet or by sending a send a self-addressed stamped envelope. See below for address.

Inquiries

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The person or persons who have associated their work with this document (the "Dedicators") hereby dedicate the entire copyright in the work of authorship identified below (the "Work") to the public domain. Dedicators make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of the Dedicators' heirs and successors. Dedicators intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights under copyright law, whether vested or contingent, in the Work. Dedicators understand that such relinquishment of all rights includes the relinquishment of all rights to enforce (by lawsuit or otherwise) those copyrights in the Work. Dedicators recognize that, once placed in the public domain, the Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.

Contact

Trevor Blake

P. O. Box 2321

Portland OR 97208-2321 USA

http://www.ovo127.com/

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Annotations

OVO 12 was first published in 1991. The information on page two is accurate but it is unlikely that any of the addresses seen elsewhere in this issue are still valid.

ovo1201 – Front Cover. The stylized atom graphic came from a company that made buttons. The overturned statue is a picture of the aftereffects of an earthquake.

ovo1202 – Indicia. OVO was available in three stores and had advertisers, a distributor and subscribers.

ovo1203 – Introduction & Table of Contents.

ovo1204 through ovo1206 – Thoughts on Experimentation by Feral Faun. The top graphic on ovo1206 is by Jim Ellis, used as the cover art to OVO 11. The center and bottom graphics are piles of glasses stolen from people killed in the death camps in Germany, an image is used throughout this issue.

ovo1207 through ovo1218 – Liznap and Resume by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE. It is criminal that tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE continues to go unrecognized as the greatest mad scientist of our age, while many merely eccentric scientists achieve fame and fortune. The graphics on ovo1218 are again by Jim Ellis and from photographs of glasses.

ovo1219 through ovo1222 (continued on ovo1226) – Recipes for Non-Survival by Esperanza Godot. This critical review of the Anarchist Cookbook continues to be ignored by the publishers and distributors of that book. A piece of American samizdat originally published in New Libertarian, Volume V, Number III, April 1988.

ovo1223 – Excerpts from Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars by anonymous. This document was available as early as 1987 via a Fidonet BBS in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It was supposedly found on 7 July 1986 in the feeder tray of a photocopier bought second-hand from Boeing. Excerpts from this pamphlet were also published in William Cooper's book Behold a Pale Horse in 1991, the same year as this issue of OVO. This document is a satire, presenting a fiction as truth in order to make a comment about society. The images on ovo1226 in the upper left and lower right are more glasses. The image in the upper right is of a dog with another dog's head surgically attached to it.

ovo1227 through ovo1229 – Bellowing Forth and Brandishing by Richard Ford. Cut-up computer generated poetry was a novelty (at least to me) in 1991. The text source is the fiction of Kenneth Robeson, a shared pen-name that Doc Savage magazine was attributed to. The graphic on ovo1227 is from Philip Farmer's book Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, and I think the image on ovo1228 is from an original Doc Savage magazine. Writing on computer was a strange enough idea to me in 1991 to specifically mentioning that contributions to OVO could occur on a screen.

ovo1230 – Cursed Object by Trevor Blake. Black and white collage, paper glue and ink. The text largely comes from an inversion of claims made in a paranormal magazine. Where the original advertisement read “I can make everyone love you,” I changed it to “I can make everyone hate you.” Some of the text is original, to make the inverted sections flow better and be more confusing and evil-sounding. The text is deliberately inconsistent; it claims to be both beneficial to the reader and harmful to the reader, to be both all-powerful and doomed. This text was available as a booklet to be given to people the buyer didn't like: one person bought it and presumably gave it to their enemy. I hope they got their money's worth. Someone later transcribed it for the Internet.

ovo1231 through ovo1240 – The List of Recalibrations by Walter Alter. The images on ovo1240 are more glasses and the ovo television logo. Little Wally's Reader was sent to me on computer disk, an early inspiration to move OVO to an electronic format.

ovo1241 through ovo1245 – A Pit Stop Along the Inward Journey by James V. Scianna. The images are advertisements for horror movies.

ovo1246 through ovo1253 – Three Letters by Chris Gross. Interest and belief in alien abduction in 1991 had not reached the popularity it would in three years later with the success of The X-Files. I like Chris' letters for their sense of humor, although he did believe he experienced exactly what he described. The image at the bottom of ovo1253 is by Chris, the image on the right side is more glasses.

ovo1254 – Index and References. Cable television was a new source of information for me.

ovo1255 – Contacts. Smile is the magazine of Neoism. Film Threat made the transition from zine to magazine to Web page long before OVO.

ovo1256 – Catalogue.

ovo1257 – Advertisements to reprint in other zines. No one ever did.

ovo1258 – Paid advertisement.

ovo1259 – Back cover. Postage to mail this zine was 75 cents, but I suspect I was overcharged.

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