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The Secret Sexual Life of the Stock Market by Spencer Fleming (aka: C.M. Flumiani)
The Library of Wall Street, Albuquerque, NM, 1970. Flumiani, C.M. (illustrator), Softcover, Reprint, exact facsimile of the original first edition, first printing published in 1970. Numerous scribbled illustrations by Flumiani, 31 pp. Written by Carlo Maria Flumiani under the pseudonym, “Spencer Fleming, pagination is funky, (as expected with Flumiani titles) as the first chapter starts at page 9 even though it’s 6 pages in from the front cover, guaranteed complete facsimile of original.
Contents: Chapter 1. Man The Barbarian, 2. The Tyranny of the Emotions, 3. Love and Power, 4. Indifference, Donation & Possession, 5. The Intima & Perversions, 6. Exaggerations and Perversions, 7. Self-Destruction, Life & Sex, 8. Ignorance, Success & Failure, 9. The Stock Market Advances, 10. The Stock Market Declines, 11. The Reclining Positions, 12. The Law of the Extremes, 13. Moronic Beatitudes & Destructive Dejections, 14. Duality: the Double Contrary & the Concordant Action, 15. Sex-for-Pleasure and Sex-for-Procreation, 16. The Rapidity of the Action, 17. Perfection and Imperfection, 18. The Orgasm as a Vaticinatory Experience. — end. 31 pp.
Summary: This 1970 title, published a year after the summer of love, is Flumiani at his eccentric best. The awkward prose and skewed perspectives Flumiani had on the markets in the 60’s and 70’s are now a welcome diversion to what is otherwise a generally straight jacketed approach by other authors to explain stock market price movement. The Secret Sexual Life of the Stock Market is probably the most entertaining of the Flumiani Collection, and in my opinion actually one of his most coherent. This was the first book Flumiani authored as Fleming, the 2nd was “The Failure of the American Democracy,” in 1973, and at least one more in 1977. Extremely Scarce Title, Collectible Reprint.
ISBN-10: 1945574801
ISBN-13: 9781945574801
The Secret Sexual Life of the Stock Market by Spencer Fleming (aka: C.M. Flumiani)
