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Bill Wilson
Ray Johnson The Paper Snake
May 31, 2004 07:51PM
<HTML>A copy of Ray Johnson's The Paper Snake, with an inchoate introduction by me, is being auctioned at eBay, with an opening bid about seventy dollars. The entry reads, in part, "Noted avante-garde artist, Ray Johnson, expresses in book form his philosphy of art including mail art.

Very fine condition from collection of an art curator. Dust jacket in fine shape with one very small tear on upper spine of DJ. Price of $3.47 on DJ. An excellent example of this rare book."

Anyone who buys this book at auction will receive by mail (or UPS) a book which is largely of mailart sent to Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins. The book has some aesthetic problems with the mechanical reproduction of colors, but increasingly it looms as a historical artifact conveying some of Ray's writing, and evidence of rather early Johnsonian mail-art. Bill Wilson</HTML>
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May Mail
Re: Ray Johnson The Paper Snake
June 01, 2004 12:02AM
<HTML>IF ANY ONE WANTS TO PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR THIS
HOP ON DOWN TO URSUS BOOKS!

Bill it looks like You and Me Ursus the World !

11.
RAY JOHNSON: The Paper Snake
Johnson, Ray

Price: US$ 375.00 [Convert Currency]
Shipping: [Rates and Speeds]

Book Description: 1965. . Unpaginated; fully illustrated in color. Oblong 4to, cloth. New York, Something Else Press, 1965. With a piece of artwork in an envelope in front of book. Bookseller Inventory #111237

Bookseller: Ursus Books and Prints, Ltd. (New York, NY, U.S.A.)

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Merlin
Re: Ray Johnson The Paper Snake
June 05, 2004 02:47PM
<HTML>Rain Rien, please slow down!!!
Please!!!

OK! you are right this is no democratic boared!
Yes I am the censor of it Yes I am the boaredmaster.
ITS BOARING!!!

I KNOW!

You need not to hide her to become not deleted - try to
learn to become true about yourself instead kicking others!

OK?

PS: Yo9ur ProxyAOL is an absolutely shitty dialinaccount - your provider
is absolutely ugly!

By the way btw I am not understanding inglaise language.

parlevou francaise?

Provoking MERLIN

(interested into having a look to rainriens girlsartistssoul.....)+
he is a faker!</HTML>
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Merlin
Re: Ray Johnson The Paper Snake
June 05, 2004 02:32PM
<HTML>hey dealer,
this book is a faked poor copy I think.

this Board is not a commercial one - it is made for con+ac+s.


Snail - Mai- Art had been Undergroundart cheap and easy worldwide.
In the century of computers this board is made for contact for snailmail.
Yes I am a computerfreak, yes I am a mailartfreak, yes I studied fineart.

got some contacts to china????

I am an artterrorist - some sleeper in Germoney.

Do not deal with items that are not your own, leased or stolen.

Ray Johnson only was one gone sleeper in USA.

built up contacts to those people worldwide living that what Ray
Johnson wanted to live - before he gave up jumping into
the Harbour!

WE did not give up we ar alive we are the artist - join our ideas
This messageboard survived aol, microsoft, t-ohnein and much more
providers here in Germoney.
Lot of x-penses and providers telling "you go to jail if..."
we f++++ed them all we are online!

OK! this is not EBAY ok?

Merlin</HTML>
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Bill Wilson
Re: Ray Johnson The Paper Snake
June 05, 2004 06:24PM
<HTML>As I say farewell forever, Merlin, I do want to point you toward your presumption in thinking that you have an explanation for the drowning of Ray Johnson: "...before he gave up jumping into
the Harbour!" As Shakespeare said, "What great ones do, the less will prattle of."

I posted a mention of a copy of The Paper Snake for sale at eBay because some mail-artists might want to connect with the historical origins of their network. The issue is not the auction of one book, but gratitude for a gift of aesthetic liveliness from Ray Johnson, who set in motion a process you participate in today, 42 years later. I think that your messageboard does well to appreciate the initial conditions of this Network which you have done so much to nurture. Bill Wilson</HTML>
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May Mails A June Moon
Re: Ray Johnson The Paper Snake
June 05, 2004 07:04PM
<HTML>

Bill,

Don't Give Up on Merlin..
Ray never gave up on May.
the erlin bird catches the whim.

Firm those stilts.

eBaby paper snake is still a little bidless.
anyone who bids will be sent ten dollars bye rain rien
and a tin cup from tim buck too. (all d rage in wales)

Ask and you shall re-shelve.

rain rien nevermind
2101 baneberry way east
chanhassen, MN 55317 you sofa</HTML>
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