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transition 24 was published in June 1936. Edited by Eugene Jolas with associate editor James Johnson Sweeney.

Cover art by Fernand Léger.

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Contents of Issue 24

VERTIGRAL

James Agee - Lyric - 7

— A Song - 7

Samuel Beckett - Malacoda - 8

— Enueg II - 9

— Dortmunder - 10

Richard Eberhart - Alphabet Book (for I.A. Richards) - 11

— “Mais l’amour infini me montera dans l’âme” - 15

Eugene Jolas - At Watch - 17

— Ergriffenheit - 17

— Hypnologues - 19

— Grunewald - 21

James Johnson Sweeney - Watching the soft advance… - 22

Georges Pelorson - Le Nombre - 23

Charles Tracy - from “Seven Ages of Women” - 29

— Temptation - 30

— Motherhood - 31

— Portrait of Our House - 32

— The Painting - 34

O.D. Wells - Yorkshe - 37

— Love Poem - 37

— Poem - 37

George Whitsett - Dancing rope - 38

— Hotel - 38

PARAMYTHS

Wayne Andrews - Take a Number From One to Ten - 40

Fernand Auberjonois - Chalumeaux des voix tressées - 46

Georges Pelorson - Le Roi dans la Vallée - 48

Eugene Jolas - Alamasatl - 53

— Spuk of the Present - 54

— Oorana - 56

George Whitsett - Sonances - 59

THE EYE

James Johnson Sweeney - Seeing and Representation - 63

Hans Arp - Human Concretions, 1935 - 67

Charles Biederman - Composition, 1935 - 69

Alexander Calder - Mobile, 1935 - 71

Alberto Giacometti - Composition, 1931 - 73

Fernand Léger - Marionettes (Combat de Boxe) - 75

Suprematist Composition, 1914 - 77

Suprematist Composition, 1915 - 79

Joan Miro - Composition, 1927 - 81

Wooden Seat, Greater Antilles, Santo Domingo - 83

Joseph Pickett - Coryell’s Ferry - 85

Unknown Painter - Portrait of Creole Child - 87

Pablo Picasso - Petite Fille Lisant, 1935 - 89

Kurt Schwitters - Merzbild - 90

Kurt Schwitters (trans. Eugene Jolas) - C o E M - 91

Description by a Schizophrenic Patient - 93

Pencil Drawing by a Schizophrenic - “The Miraculous Shepherd” - 95

THE EAR

Edgar Varèse - Two pages from score of Ionization, 1933 - 98

CINEMA

Mack Sennett - Bathing Beauties, 1917 - 101

Walt Disney - “Steamboat Willie”, 1928 - 103

Charlie Chaplin - “Modern Times” - 105

DOCUMENTS

Vertigral Workshop

Eugene Jolas - Glossary - 109

— Romanticism and the Dream - 109

— Race and Language - 111

— Dreamers of the World Unite - 113

— Notes for a Lexicon of Night - 113

Eskimo Dance Mask, Alaska - 116

Martha Champion Huot - Peyote Songs - 117

— Ceremonial songs from: A sauk and fox sacred pack - 119

Mariel J. Bruhnes Delamarre - Chansons Populaires du Canada Français - 121

— Au bois du rossignolet - 123

— Tenaouich tenaga, Ouich’ka - 125

— Les Raftsmen - 126

George Rousault - Head of Christ - 128

Leon Bloy - Fragments - 129

Davidson Taylor - Two Dreams - 131

Eugene Jolas - Woola-Woola - 133

ARCHITECTURE

Paul Nelson - Study of a surgical pavillion for the Suez Canal - 134

— Ground Floor Plan - 141

— Second Floor Plan - 143

— Isometric View - 145

— Maquette view as from South-East - 147