CLAYCOMB, Eva; SAVAGE, Aubrie (ed.)
Exercises in Practical Mischievery #9: Incomplete list of heteronyms, orthonyms, autonyms, semi-heteronyms, proto-heteronyms, para-heteronyms, meta-heteronyms, pseudonyms, aliases, characters and their brothers, used by Fernando António Pessoa

“I’ve always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I’m not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.”
—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, tr. Richard Zenith

The publication series “Exercises in Practical Mischievery” documents the ventures and chronicles the stories of notable individuals who have implemented out of the ordinary forms for the distribution of word and thought, without putting much emphasis on the content of the message (though luckily the two often go hand in hand). The collection serves as an archive for freely accessible tools that facilitate the dissemination of thought. [publishers’ note]

Published by Laura Pappa, 2025
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