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Richard Sharpe Shaver is best remembered as a controversial sci-fi writer\u2014in the late 1940s, his pieces in Amazing Stories<\/em> made outlandishly specific claims about evil ancient civilizations, and it became progressively clearer that Shaver didn\u2019t regard these stories as fiction. Toward the end of his life, Shaver spent his time elaborating an arcane theory about \u201crock books\u201d; in certain stones, he avowed, one could find intricate pictographic texts inscribed by the hyperadvanced races of millennia past. As the art quarterly X-Tra <\/em>has it, Shaver believed he\u2019d begun to decode the texts of \u201ca whole prehistoric Atlantean library<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Shaver accessed the rock books by cutting through stone with a saw to reveal a world of imagery within the fissures. \u201cHumans figures [sic] are distorted by saw-cut as well as by wrong lenses\u2014but recognizable. The enigma of man\u2019s past does not need to be an enigma.\u201d This statement, handwritten in blue ball-point pen on thin typewriter bond, floats to the right of an oculus cut into the paper, which reveals beneath a photograph of what appears to be a random black and white pattern. In fact, Shaver believed the pattern was a holographic picture created thousands of years ago by an advanced ancient technology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It can feel voyeuristic to dwell on the remnants of lunacy\u2014like gaping at the crazies on the subway\u2014but Shaver\u2019s devotion and imagination provoke a strange empathy. As Brian Tucker writes in an excellent summary for Cabinet<\/em><\/a>, \u201cDespite poverty and virtually unremitting scorn, Shaver continued this work until his death in November 1975.\u201d A few years ago, Tucker curated an exhibit including some of Shaver\u2019s papers and theories:<\/p>\n

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The pictorial content that Shaver identified in these rocks is dense and complex. Different images reveal themselves at every angle of view and every level of magnification; pictures mingle with ancient graphic symbols and typography in what he called \u201cthe most fascinating exhibition of virtuosity in art existent on earth\u201d \u2026 Discouraged by critics who charged that the figures pictured in his paintings were mere fabrications from his own imagination, he eventually abandoned painting in favor of the relative objectivity of photographic documentation. In an unpublished manuscript, Shaver writes, \u201cIf I hadn\u2019t been an artist most of my life, I would have realized that people will believe photos, and won\u2019t believe drawings or paintings \u2026 The camera wins, by being honest \u2026 which doesn\u2019t say much for artists\u2019 honesty, I guess. We try \u2026 but people think we lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Earlier this year, the Morgan Library included some of Shaver\u2019s photos in its exhibition \u201cA Collective Invention: Photographs at Play\u201d; a write-up at Hyperallergic<\/a> has a number of examples. Shaver\u2019s descriptions of his pictures are bewilderingly opaque, with lots of cultural references and an occasional erotic undercurrent. \u201cOnce you get accustomed to high-contrast rock-photo prints,\u201d he writes below one photo, \u201cthey have the same charm as a Beardsley black and white drawing, the same erotic fascination \u2026\u2009\u201d He compares another to the Lone Ranger\u2019s mask, and notes, \u201cThe mask is speaking to a larger female with very large breasts.\u201d The back of another photo says simply, \u201cMer feet.\u201d (\u201cWe think of mermaids as a mad sort of myth, but in fact they were our direct ancestors.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt only seems confusing,\u201d Shaver tries to explain of the texts. \u201cThe confusion is because it is four way and has to be separated into one way.\u201d But this you could write off as garden-variety insanity: the frustrated condescension, the seeming obviousness of it all. For me, Shaver is most affecting when he seems too daunted by his discovery to begin to know how to comprehend it: \u201cWhat to do about universal ignorance of man\u2019s beginnings is too much problem [sic] for me. I can\u2019t even sell a rock book.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you want to steep yourself in Shaver lore, check out Shavertron<\/a><\/em>, an online magazine that bills itself \u201cYour Only Source of Post-Deluge Shaverania.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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