“A new grimoire of the natural and metanatural sciences. A book about the work begot by João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva between the years of the grace of our lord 1 and 21 of this century. A list of various matters examined by different authors and authorities on the theoretical and practical arts of aesthetics with selected prescriptions and testimonies: a duck witnessing its own demise, a space knife and a potato planet, the seven and a half lives of a phantom cat (visions and apparitions), a floppy hammer and a similar broom, a two-holed-ball, an eclipse and an un-eclipse, a collection of diaphanous cloths, one two eggs ready to fry and one two three already fried, a set of graphic instructions for fortune telling, a frozen freezer, a sunflower in the moonlight, a winter tyre, three donkeys born from the same mother, flying spaghetti, a mnemonic mirror, a t-shirt from the abyss, the mere tip of a camel’s hump, two men, a horse!, a portrait of Rocinante!, a dog with a remarkable tail, a water-melon moon, an open box, oh, it’s empty!, the Devil’s stuck wheel, a flattened rabbit, a defenestrated photographer, etcetera, etcetera and so on and so forth…”