The essay "Rober Racin's Magnum Opus" by Peggy Gale states that "in his peregrinations through history, music and art, this Montreal master of many media pursues a kind of fine madness." His technique and justification for making the "pages-miroirs," from the Petit Robert dictionary, two of which are held by the Sackner Archive, are described in detail. For example, a black square marks the 3 longest definitions on the page. Each time the defined word appears, it is underlined and gilded, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Words and phrases from a French dictionary have been altered in the form of comments, underlines, cancellations, and removal by perforations. Each of two headers of the printed columns of the pages has been retitled to more closely connote the new theme achieved by Racin's alterations. At the bottom of the columns, a printed phrase, denoted by a graphite mark in the vertical margin, has been rewritten to express a unifying theme. Marks and letters in the margins reflect arcane record keeping. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.