Scope and Contents The notebook consists of a sketches for art works, poems, articles clipped from newspapers, meetings, reminders, quotations, philosophical thoughts, and moneys due and owed Phillips. The beginning of the book has a permutation poem on the word "open," e.g., open openn opin opens openne opone oun ... The next section consists of full-length figurative drawings and notes. The middle section deals with ideas for the painting "C LOOPSEEND." This is followed by notes for an experimental music score with a reference to John Cage and a mushroom poem. On a later page, Phillips appropriates Marshall MacLuhan's "The Medium is the Massage" to "The Tedium is the Message." Such wordplay antedated his 1995 print relating to the auction of Van Goth's painting,"Irises" for 65 million dollars in NYC, "Auctions Speak Louder than Words." The last eighth of the book (1966) begins the experiments with the "Humument" format of cancelling text. The first try is cancelling words using superimposed x's of...

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The text was incorporated into a painting by Phillips entitled, "Ephemerides II." The latter is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.