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Volume 11 , Issue 5 (September + October 2004) table of contents
Funology

SPECIAL ISSUE: More funology: inspiration table of contents

Pages: 53 - 56

Year of Publication: 2004

ISSN:1072-5520

Authors

William W. Gaver	Royal College of Art
Andrew Boucher	Royal College of Art
Sarah Pennington	Royal College of Art
Brendan Walker	Royal College of Art

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

When reason is away, smiles will play. --- Paul Eluard and Benjamin Péret

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	2	Gooding, M. (1991). Surrealist games. In A Book of Surrealist Games, M. Gooding (Ed.). London: Redstone Press.
	3	Menand, L. (2003, March 24). The Historical romance: Edmund Wilson's adventure with Communism. The New Yorker, 80-81.

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