§ Discover the Letter-Land

litteraterraLITTERATERRA
Magazine of books and ideas

ISSN: 1792-0892

Issue 1, December 2009
15*23 cm., 120 pp., Price: €5

Once upon a time, there was – they say – a far away land. An island full of magic it was – they say –, a place made of letters. Trees were made of “Ts” f.e., with “Ds” on their top. And rivers looked like “Ss” from above, and carried little “Os” made of water, &cet. leafPeople discovered this island and moved in. Busy people. They adopted easily in this paradise of letters, and started playing games in this letter-land, changing the shape of things. So they started writing words in real space, and then came the sentences, and then the texts, and their world started becoming a world of real physical books, a paradise of wonders and of letters. leafBut, as you probably know, all these belong to the forgotten past of the human race, a memory lost in the depth of time, the forgotten memory of the lost letterly heaven.

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Issue 2, April 2010
15*23 cm., 136 pp., Price: €6

But, then came a moment that they got bored to change the world through letters. So, the Wise of them, held a meeting. They talked about what they could do to build the World a new , to make him easier, more logical, more predictable.

This is what they decided: to melt the letters in order to build blocks from them, quadrangular, and using them to build new cities, houses, to fill the empty space. Needless to say, they were all excited by this idea, and than they started dismantling the letters, and transforming their island according to this new Logic…

Litteraterra is a books magazine, aiming to explore the existence of the lost land of letters…