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OVO 14

March 1992. 200 numbered copies. 28 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

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Annotations

OVO 14 was first published in 1992. The information on page two is accurate but it is unlikely that any of the addresses seen elsewhere in this issue are still valid.

ovo1401 – Front Cover. Art by Jim Ellis. The graphic in the upper left is some horrible thing made abstract.

Reich – Poster. Not found in the original but circa that time.

ovo1402 – The announcement that this was the penultimate issue was wrong. The zine was available in six stores in five cities, and with OVO 14 I began to make a profit (a few dollars). I was moving to a new state. It seemed like a good time to close the project. I wrote “be looking for the OVO BBS!” Over a decade later I'm offering Web pages & PDF files, but the general idea is the same. Only the idea of closing the project has been abandoned.

ovo1403 – Introduction. I am still inclined to agree that there is nothing worth knowing that can only be learned through suffering. Since June 1992 I have moved to Portland, written, played music and made Web sites: mission accomplished. “Eventually I would like to publish again, but on a larger scale.” And I have.

ovo1404 through ovo1409 – Quotes. The graphics are definitely from Sandy Lesberg's book Violence in Our Times, which is where the piles of glasses images came from. The quote from Anton LaVey was specifically cited as a reason this issue was banned form prisons in Texas. Today I might add one more quote, about Harry Crosby from Geoffrey Wolff's biography Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby: “[Crosby's] attitude suggests a calculated posture: the poet, too rare for this world, escapes first into imaginary realms, and finally into the undiscovered country itself from which no traveler returns. [...] A sterile childhood and the ruins of Western culture are held accountable for the poet's dread and anger. He smokes hashish to forget his misery, and dwells upon his misery to loot it for material appropriate to serious verse. [His] early work adds to a world of evidence that disease, weariness, pain and solitude are the safe subjects for a novice man of letters.” (emphasis added)

ovo1410 through ovo1413 – Personal Freedom Now by Orton Nenslo. The author has asked that this text not be reprinted.

ovo1414 and ovo1415 – Ask Yourself. Asking questions is a good part to understanding things, but asking questions is not sufficient in itself to understand things.

ovo1416 and ovo 1417 – Murder, War, Famine, Greed by Hakim Bey. Piles of glasses. Reprinted from T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone.

ovo1418 – Give Up Art, Save the Starving by Karen Elliot. Neoist text. This particular Karen Elliot also wrote Operation Negation. This essay appears in another form in Kooks by Donna Kossy.

ovo1419 – Index.

ovo1420 – Received.

ovo1421 through ovo1426 – Catalogue. Little changed from the previous issue.

ovo1427 – Advertisements. Another paid advertisement, this time from the Church of Explicit Lyrics.

ovo1428 - Back cover. More glasses.

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