Small question about Pentiment: Was the character of Vácslav and the metaphysical theories he can explain if you ask him nicely enough in any way a reference to Menocchio, the 16th Italian miller that was the subject of Carlo Ginzburg's 1976 The Cheese and the Worms?
Yes. Some players have identified Vácslav's beliefs as Gnosticism. While many of the things he says are consonant with Gnostic thought, others are not. It's really his own blend of absorbed traditions mixed with his own theories. Like Menocchio, Vácslav has taken a lot of ideas from different places and has formulated his own particular cosmology.
Another source of inspiration came from the Fournier Register, records of the inquisitorial process applied to southern French Cathar credentes, Catholics, and non-believers. Many of the people whom Jacques Fournier interrogated had syncretized their own beliefs that could best be understood as a blend of Catharism or Catholicism, local folk beliefs, and their own personal ideas.
While people like Menocchio or the character Vácslav represent an extreme level of cosmological development, I wanted to push back against the idea that common people lacked the curiosity or drive to formulate their own ideas about the world around them (and beyond).
Also like Menocchio, Vácslav cannot shut up about his beliefs. Menocchio was not condemned only as a heretic, but as a heresiarch, the founder of a heretical movement. His drive to constantly talk with his neighbors about his beliefs was seen as proselytizing.
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what kind of man doesn't & better than your best by menocchio, also known as 'road boys' (or it was when it was being posted and I was reading!).
I decided to continue down the design path I took with Tucked!, printing titles directly onto book cloth and using single-colour endpapers. My second project was actually bootstrapping, but I messed up that binding so much I didn't want to share it at first - one day I might cut the text block out of the case, re-do the case and case it in again, to fix all the problems I had. I do console myself with the fact my colour and cover paper choices were on point, at least. check out the mad 80s/90s energy of this, I'm in love. (I'm pretty sure I had a tracksuit in the early 90s in those exact colours.)
what kind of man doesn't and better than your best are a series so I wanted them to match. I chose yellow/orange as the colours for wkomd because of how when I started reading it, the image seared into my mind was that of a hot and golden California sun. for btyb I went with a dark green and blue because it's a kk3 rewrite, and I associate it very strongly with bonsai so I wanted a more down-to-earth colour palette for it. as it happened I had Dubletta (same brand bookcloth as for Tucked!) in those colours so it was an easy choice.
specs and process photos under cut
bootstrapping
Typeset in Charter. Printed on 100gsm 100% recycled eco-craft oatmeal paper and bound in seafoam blue bookcloth of dubious origin (possibly Windsor, a tissue-backed rayon) and paper from designed by Kelly Hyatt 2019 and sold by LAGOM DESIGN, over 2mm boards with Daler-Rowney Canford Fuchsia 150gsm as ends. 254 pages
what kind of man doesn't
Typeset in Charter. Printed on 80gsm 100% recycled Context Natural 80 paper and bound in Dubletta Yellow Orange 3272, a woven cotton on acid-free paper backing, over 2mm boards with Daler-Rowney Canford Buttercup 150gsm as ends. 360 pages
better than your best
Typeset in Charter. Printed on 80gsm 100% recycled Context Natural 80 paper and bound in Dubletta Duck Egg Blue 3267, a woven cotton on acid-free paper backing, over 2mm boards with Daler-Rowney Canford Sky Blue 150gsm as ends. 744 pages
so many things went wrong with the bootstrapping binding, starting with...my printer deciding to do an adjustment thing and me forgetting about this, so when I put in the carefully cut and measured book cloth sheet in, it printed...like this:
I should've recognised it for the Omen it was.
I redid it, and then between measuring and cutting the boards for the case and casing in, the textblock swelled (or I measured wrong?) which meant the textblock was pressing against the insides of the hinges, making them look bulky and gross instead of crisp and square. and also, the cover paper I used didn't take the moisture from the PVA well AT ALL so it instantly wrinkled and could not be smoothed out hard as I tried, so the cover is just. wrinkled now. I also somehow managed to lay it down askew so the cover paper is not parallel (notice the overlap differences between the bottom and top of the front cover).
as if that wasn't enough, the logo on the spine is off centre too! sheesh. not to mention the endpapers! I somehow missed an edge curling over and so it...glued in place like this. and the corresponding corner has a starch paste stain now.
I was so mad about it all that when I put it in to press, I faced it away from me. think about what you did, asshole
in beautiful contrast, almost* nothing went wrong with wkomd and btyb!
*I accidentally glued the spine piece down to wkomd incorrectly so I had to reprint that book cloth and cut a new spine piece. I tried to gently cut the spine piece off the original book cloth to see if I could re-use the book cloth, but I just cut through the cloth and also left a layer of board on it in places so, no, lol. I did salvage the back and front parts of the cloth to use in other projects and only discarded the spine piece. it could've been a lot worse.
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Can someone tell me if Graft by menocchio ends with an happy ending? I love their works and have read all of the others but can't stand angsty endings and that one looks like it could have one.
I don't mind spoilers just tell me if it'll break my heart
