June 18, 2003
Music of Borut Krzisnik
The musical quotations on the site are by the Slovian composer Borut Krzisnik from Ljubljana A CD of the music of the film is at this moment being manufactured. (info@borutkrzisnik.com)
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June 17, 2003
Moscow and Leipzig
My colleague archivist will be traveling to Leipzig by train tomorrow, he will meet some Luper experts there and hopefully will bring back some material for the Tulse Luper Suitcases Archives.
Thursday June 19 I will be flying to Moscow to do some research on a Luper project called Augsbergenfeldt. Tulse Luper is supposed to have written it while being in a prison in Moscow in the fifties. I do not know if I will have a chance to go online while being there but I will be back again on Monday, June 23.
The Archivist
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June 11, 2003
Location Antwerp - 1938
Today I have added some information on Tulse Luper (character nr. 01), Martino Knockavelli (character nr. 02), Passion Hockmeister (character nr. 10), Sophie van Osterhuis (character nr. 17) and Cissie Colpitts (character nr. 24) during their stay at Antwerp in Belgium from 1938 till 1939.
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June 10, 2003
Nomen est Omen, isn't it?
Under the title "Nomen est omen, isn’t it? Etymologic-onomastic attempts on the name ‘Tulse Luper’" there has been an examination of possible sources in different European languages for the analysis of the name ‘Tulse Luper’.
Gianfranco Sobillatoro a Luper expert from Leipzig University (Institute of Theatre Science), specialised in the examination of unusual names took the
challenge to work with this rare sample to deepen the general understanding of the evolution of names and to give the international Luper research some new traces and tools to examine his special history.
In the Archives section of this site under Category, subcategory nr. 5 Experts, expert nr. 12 Gianfranco Sobillatoro, can be found a small collection of first results of this research.
Firstly the surname ‘Luper’ is examined. According to hints, which are given by Luper or were drawn from other sources, the possible regions, from which the family of Tulse Luper might have come from, could be named.
Later will there be a presentation of some hints for the first name ‘Tulse’. Unfortunately it is unknown, why the parents of Tulse Luper gave their son that particular name. But some speculations can be done about the influences of their decision. From this the deduction of some remarkable indications for the emergence of the name ‘Tulse Luper’ shall be possible.
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June 03, 2003
Tulse and the southern hemisphere
To our knowledge Tulse has never travelled south of the equator - but like Kafka inventing an America he had never visited, it might not be entirely impossible to imagine an apocryphal visit. He writes of Kangaroo Island, south of Adelaide, as though he might have been there, and there is a story about a gifted uxorious marsupial that Luper is known to have written after his photograph was taken in 1940 outside the Marsupial House in Antwerp Zoo.
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Aptesia Fallarme
Aptesia Fallarme, "the waterfall on legs", "a creature designed to render the services of an oasis", "the welcome visitor to a water-starved garden lawn" whose biography is number 18 in The Falls, was a recollection of a character that Luper probably met in Rome, in the forum close to the Arch of Settimio Severo. On a more metaphorical level, Luper is known to have stood in the
Piazza de Repubblica in Rome, and stared at the decadent female sculptures posing langorously under cascades of water pumped in from the Tivoli Hills.
These sculptured females are curiously unviewable in close erotic detail because like sirens thy poise on an island - albeit a traffic island - in one of the busiest spaces in Rome. A lack of close inspection gives rise to much erotic speculation. Forever running with water, their slippery bodies seem to be a permanent invitation. Aptesia may also be an invocation of Isadora Duncan before she met the sewing-machine manufacturer, and a lady Tulse once viewed taking a surreptitious leak on a hot afternoon on a public platform in Dublin whilst she was enthusing about At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien, the pink peonies on her flowered skirt darkening to a rich and sombre purple.
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