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The mailing envelope was addressed to Ulises Carrion in Amsterdam. All contributors are Brazilians. Bruscky's contribution entitled "Poema Linguistico - Linguistic Poem," was made by pressing his tongue coated with ink against the paper sheet to leave a faint outline. Three issues of this periodical constituted the run. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The name of this periodical is taken from the protagonist in James Joyce's novel, Ulysses. The name of the city from which this assembling originates, Szombathely, is the place where Bloom was born. This issue of the periodical was published on Bloomsday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The other copies of this assembling belong to Geof Huth, Nancy Huth, Erin Huth, Timothy Huth, Ficus Strangulensis, and John M. Bennett. Three copies are still held by Geof Huth. The archival envelope that houses the pieces is numbered 255950. Geof Huth provides extensive documentation on this project which is reproduced as follows. FILM CLIPS # 4 A SELF-DESTRUCTING COMPILATION OF CULTURAL ICONOGRAPHY AND MAIL ART O + + + + + . + + + + + R THE ILLEIST'S FRAME OF REFERENCE ENTOMBED WHAT ABOUT THIS IS ABOUT A bagazine of mailart and the ephemeral evidence of the culture we burrow through, "Film Clips" gives us some idea of the changing ways of documenting the world over the course of time. Ge(of Huth)'s life as an archivist and an occasional packrat have allowed him access to all kinds of materials just before their owners have destroyed them forever. He collected these with no idea in mind of what to do with them, and eventually "Film Clips" came to be. The proximate impetus for this...