In EXPERIMENTALISM, PART 1, “experiment” was traced back to its etymological connection with “experience” as the process of departing from what has been tested, of gaining knowledge by venturing beyond the known grounds – just as Joyce, Borges and Beckett did in both their lives and fiction. The particular sort of experience engaged with in the fiction promoted by Equus Press has been described as “translocal,” aiming to counter the explicit nationalism of the literary establishment. Contemporary fiction and poetry – even though written in and about a world arguably marked by increasing globalisation and internationalisation – is still very much an endeavour with nationalist underpinnings, this for a whole array of reasons: from linguistic ones (translation as a delay