which is found on the library floor
Volume the Fifty-Fourth is the fictional index of a self-referential library.
I wrote it after visiting a university library in Brighton, which featured a comments book from library visitors,
which (of course, being a comments book about the library) referred only to the library itself.
It set me wondering what a library might be like whose every book was concerned only with the world inside those walls.
In April 2008 one of a very limited edition of hand-bound copies of the text was featured in the exhibition From Book to Book, in Leeds Art Gallery.
You can read a hyperlinked version online on the Goldfish creative writing journal from Goldsmiths College.
The last available copy of the limited edition hand-bound run is currently being auctioned on ebay. Search for 'Wes White' and you'll find it.
"Volume The Fifty-Fourth is amusing, infuriating, mind-boggling -
and guaranteed to make you struggle to ascertain precisely where imagination ends and reality begins"
- Bypasszine
"Like the TARDIS: I would have thought that restricting the whole universe to 60 books would feel claustrophobic,
but it's amazing how much ground it covers - it just seems to expand further and further out as you go through it"
- James Lappin, World Flapjack Day
Finally, here is a self-portrait by Attack!!!! contributor Gethan Dick, in which she can be seen reading a copy of the book:
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