Third Dialogue with the Publisher

Questioner: Well, it has been seven months since we last met. You have been busy. And you are in a new location?

Marianne: I have been very busy getting the writer to write. This has not been easy, she seemed to bury herself along with (the novel) PEASANTS AND POETS last September 25. And yes, we are now in the desert. I had to bring her here for her reckoning.

Q: Have you had success?

M: Yes. The final edit of a nine year work is completed and we are at present binding the first edition. We will soon launch gospel of the cells.

Q: Will this book find a burial in the woods too?

M: Never. I think we learned our lesson. But it had to be done. That was the death necessary to bring in the new. We really are pressing into the new mythology …

Q: I’m glad you are back in business.

M: Thank you. It is the business of cells, you see.

Q: I don’t really see…

M: The writer has her muse and the muse is her publisher and we are publishing the efforts of one cell becoming conscious. This is our gospel and it is only one cell in the larger gospel.

Q: I still don’t get what you are saying.

M: You may want to read the book.

Q: Er…

M: We’ll let you know the launch date as soon as our little edition is ready.

Dialogue with the Publisher

Questioner: What exactly do you mean by your slogan?

Marianne: We mean to gather individual voices who are excavating their riches from the past and present, who are forging their individual images that will take us into a new story.

Q: Your headline implies you are a press for publications?

M: We have published a few very small editions.

Q: With a small readership?

M: Very small.

Q: Why So?

M: The market for what we have to say does not yet exist. We are not commercially viable. We predict a wider readership in 25-1500 years.

Q: You are kidding…

M: No, our predictions point to a renaissance in poetry and mythological quest coming out of the ruins. But this will require a great change in the world.

Q: Does this have something to do with your location?

M: Yes. Here is the castle ruin where 250 creative heretics were burned at the stake 750 years ago.

Q: Do you consider Marianne Press heretical?

M. If that means breaking away from convention and pressing into a whole new way of creative imagining, into a new living myth, then, yes. Our location is a metaphor.

Q: A ruin?

M: This is where it begins.