George Brecht

Three volume annotated facsimiles of George Brecht's Champion Note Books kept from June - September 1958 (Notebook I); October 1958 - April 1959 (Notebook II); April 1959 - August 1959 (Notebook III), when he attended John Cage's class held at The New School for Social Research. Edited by Dieter Daniels in collaboration with Hermann Braun. Includes writing and drawings by the artist. Texts in English with transcriptions and "A Kind of Introduction," an interview between George Brecht, Hermann Braun, Dieter Daniels, and Kasper König, edited by Dieter Daniels.… (mer)

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Goes through the standard paradoxes - the class of all classes that do not include themselves, Zeno, Cantor on infinity, the unexpected hanging, etc, and many variations. Slightly confusing layout in that every page has a vaguely relevant quotation at both top and bottom, which breaks up the main text rather abruptly. Mostly of interest to teenage proto-geeks, but I laughed out loud when Russell, worrying about the class of all classes that do not include themselves, confides his concerns to Whitehead, who ripostes, "never glad confident morning again!" You bastard, Whitehead, is the thought which probably went through Russell's mind.… (mer)