transition 18 was published in November 1929. Edited by Eugene Jolas with advisory editors Harry Crosby, Stuart Gilbert, Matthew Josephson, Robert Sage, and Elliott Paul.

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Cover art by Kurt Schwitters.

Contents of Issue 18

The Synthesist Universe: Dreams and the Chthonian Mind:

Eugene Jolas - Reality - 15

Whit Burnett - The Night of the Gran Baile Mascara - 21

Dorothy Boillotat - Escapes - 29

Harry Crosby - Dreams 1928-1929 - 32

Kathleen Cannell - The History of a Dream - 37

Harry Crosby - For a Protection - 47

Oakley Johnson - Nahikian - 48

Eugene Jolas - Metallic Fairy Tale - 52

Edward B. Mayer - The Three Gloves - 59

Peter Neagoe - Dreams - 64

Paul Klee - Little Fool in Trance

— Fish-man; Man-Eater

Roger Vailland - Arthur Rimbaud - 66

Eugene Jolas - Homage to Novalis - 72

Novalis (trans. by Eugene Jolas) - Hymns to the Night - 73

— Fragments - 75

Francis Brugiere - Six Abstract Photographic Studies

Harry Alan Potamkin - Francis Brugiere: Photo - 81

Little Anthology:

Kay Boyle - Dedicated to Guy Urquart - 85

J. Bronowski - Prayer - 86

Edgar Calmer - Printed Opus - 87

— The Letter - 88

— From a Prose Sequence - 88

Emanuel Carnevali - Small Poems - 89

— Queer Things - 91

Emily Holmes Coleman - The Wasted Earth (Fragment) - 92

Hart Crane - The Mango Tree - 95

Caresse Crosby - The Stranger - 96

Harry Crosby - Illustrations of Madness - 102

Lyle Donaghy - The Falcon - 104

William Closson Emory - This Silence - 105

Léon-Paul Fargue (trans. by Edouard Roditi) - Exile - 106

Charles Henri Ford - Somewhat Monday - 108

André Gaillard (trans. by Eugene Jolas) - Lower, Farther, the Ancient Forms - 109

Charles Hodges, Jr. - Ah, if it Were Not for the Walls that Lie Between - 111

Lord Lymington - Personal Poem for C. and G. - 112

Bravig Imbs - Episode - 113

— Poem - 113

Thomas McGreevy - School of… - 114

J.M. Reeves = Football Match - 120

Hugh Sykes - Music in an Empty House - 121

Eugene Jolas - The Industrial Mythos - 123 (introductory note to the series below)

Charles Sheeler - The Industrial Mythos (6 photos)

Explorations:

Stuart Gilbert - The ‘Aeolus’ Episode of Ulysses - 129

William Carlos Williams - The Somnambulist - 147

Michael Stuart - The Dubliner and his Dowdili - 152

H. Christopher Holme - Art and Revolution - 162

Paul Clavel - Cinema and Poetry - 166

The Revolution of the Word:

Eugene Jolas - Statement - 175

Roger Vitrae - Le Language a Part - 176

Roger Desnos - Language Cuit - 191

Jacques Prévert - Un Peu de Tenue ou l’Histoire du Lamartine (Fragment) - 195

Theo Rutra - Requiem - 196

Martha Foley - Cokewold Fore Espousage Abolete Brokelet - 197

Robert Sage - Word Lore - 199

Stuart Gilbert - Functions of Words - 203

Harry Crosby - Short Introduction to Words - 206

Bon Brown - Experiment - 208

James Joyce: Work in Progress

James Joyce - Continuation of a Work in Progress - 211

Stella Steyn - Anna Livia with her Baudelaire maids

— Anna Livia Legging a Jig

— The Old Earwig’s Funeral

Narratives:

The Novel Is Dead Long Live the Novel (an a statement signed by:)

— Harry Crosby, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Theo Rutra, Robert Sage

M.C. Blackman - An I for an I - 240

René Crevel (trans. Kay Boyle) - Mr. Knife, Miss Fork - 242

Ruth Pine Furniss - Answer - 252

Harry Crosby - Apparition

— Aerotics

E. Theodora Herrington - Tache d’Huile - 256

W.C.G. Jitro - A Helping Hand - 259

John Riordan - Billy Does the Talking - 269

George Tichenor - Summertime - 272

Tina Modotti - Crisis

Adalberto Varallanos (trans. August Hurdlebring)- The Death of 21 Years - 279

Louis Lozowick - El Lissitzky - 284

El Lissitzky - Project for Public Rostrum

Extra Material:

Glossary - 287

transition and its Contemporaries: Some Opinions - 288