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Williams writes in his forward, "The fables - on the right-hand pages of the book - came first. Only gradually, after several exhibitions of these far-fetched fictions, did I come to realize that there was at least an iota, a jot or a tittle of truth - and sometimes a big blob of reality - in each and everyone one of them. And here, for the first time, the documentation appears opposite the collages themselves...on the left hand pages, opposite each of the cartoons, are enlightening documents from the author's personal archive relating some of the unlikely things that really happened in Performance Art 'show biz' over the years." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This copy is the third printing of the book that was first published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cinicolo aknowleges receipt of corrected proofs of Newcastle catalogue and mentions telephone coversations with John Cage and Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This piece deals with body sounds Cage heard during a stay in Harvard University's anechoic chamber. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents New York Times book review: William S. Burroughs "didn't say anything for shock value," his student Sam Kashner once observed. "His life had shock value." Born to a prominent St. Louis family in 1914, Burroughs linked his lineage at every point to the fatal plotlines of American hubris and power. His mother's family had been slave owners in the antebellum South; his paternal grandfather invented the adding machine, a building block in the embryonic military-­industrial-media complex. His uncle Ivy Lee, a pioneer of public relations, counted Hitler's regime among his preferred clients. Burroughs himself spent time in Vienna in the 1930s and learned a lesson he never forgot: Everything Hitler did was legal. Laws could spur, not deter, the blackest of crimes. To top it off, young Bill had also attended the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, which in 1943 would be co-opted for the Manhattan Project. "The sick soul, sick unto death, of the atomic age" became his great...

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Exhibition consisted of historic and experimental dance and music scores. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue presents a world-wide survey of avant garde music scores with documentation by the composers that forms a logical sequel to Cage's book "Notations" Something Else Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawings in the margins accompanying "Empty Words" and the neologisms of the text are reminiscent of Jake Berry's style of writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue provides a listing of current books in stock with annotations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the photocopied material has transferred in part to the polyvinyl looseleaf inserts and cannot be removed without damage. This book documents the artistic biography of Hansen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition consists mainly of Fluxus instructional drawings, writings and typings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.