Robert Chasse: The Comedy of Print [ca. 1968-70]

Chasse, Robert. The Comedy of Print: Being an Investigation into the prevailing use of Words by the Newsprint Industry, wherein their own Words are rearranged Somewhat according to a Magic Formula that summons their Truth. n.p. [New York, NY]: n.p., n.d. [c. 1968–1970]. Mimeographed, stapled wrappers. This first Comedy was, per its title page, “put together by Robert Chasse” — the same Robert Chasse who, with Bruce Elwell and Tony Verlaan, founded the New York-based Council for the Liberation of Daily Life in 1967, and who went on to become a member of the American section of the Situationist International until December 1969. No copy of this piece appears to be recorded anywhere online; the present example may be unique, or at least unlocated in institutional holdings (including Yale and the BNF) The premise is announced on the second page, under the header “YEAR OF NEO-CYCLIC GENERALIZATION / Time of passive acceptation and forced resignation to the permanence of the way things…