[ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p. 96.
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Your mouth is full of teeth, sharp points on my mouth.
Your mouth is too small, I whisper, giggling, into your mouth.
Your mouth is sucking all the air out of my mouth.

Your mouth is a shark.

Sampurna Chattarji

Judith Albert

Rods in a water basin attract or repulse water. When the rod has a wet end, it attracts water, when the rod is dry,  it repulses water. Here rod F is dry and depresses the water nearby. [ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p. 58.

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At noon your shadow
is a slow falling object
coinciding exactly
with my thirst for ink.
In the web of your fingers
a miniature giraffe
nestles, abhorrent
in its fraudulent cuteness.
Lap dog, lap giraffe,
how many degrees of deviance
will make me prove my love?

Sampurna Chattarji

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The rod C, that dips a little into the water, will attract the rod EF (floated by the cork H; the wetted end F sticks out of the water), provided that C is wetted a little above the water surface. [ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p. 57.

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S. 172: Oben, linke Spalte;

S. 172: Mitte, mittlere Spalte;

S. 173: Mitte, mittlere Spalte;

S. 173: Oben, rechte Spalte;

S. 176: Mitte, linke Spalte,

diese Bildbeiträge sind irrtümlicherweise nicht – wie in unserer Publikation (Berlin: Merve, 2014) – angegeben im März 2011 gepostet worden, wir bedauern die Zuordnung. Bei Rückfragen stehen wir gerne zur Verfügung.

All points of me magnetised by you.
One half of me tending obliquely towards one half of you.
Cut to the quick, pierced to the core,
Your green heart, an apple, waiting to be bitten.
This, the middle of our lives, here, where it is hottest.

Sampurna Chattarji

Wrought iron, not magnetized by the loadstone attracts iron. A is cork holding an iron wire reaching a little out of the water; C refers to the end of the second wire, which pulls B. [ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p. 29.
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