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This a surreal story about a dictionary with innovative page layouts dealing with definitions and syntax. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first trade edition printing. It was originally supported and published as a limited edition artist book by Circle Press in 2005. The Sackners visited Sam Winston in his London studio In September 2010. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Files under "slash" = [\} -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The single, unique, unbound perforated page that depicts a poem entitled "Breath" was provided to this deluxe edition. The other four deluxe copies had different poems. A unique copy contained the manuscript. The following has been taken from the Web Site of Sam Winston: "Since 1999 I collated scraps of paper, diary notes and typed word document all pertaining to this one idea I was trying to express through a story. And when in 2010 I finally did reach a final draft, I also realised I had generated a history of documents that said something about the process of writing itself. For Orphan I wanted to present both my final tale and show the archaeology of that writing process. By cutting out the words from my previous drafts I created clouds of text that I could use as the "typeface' for my final draft. It is a book in which you have both the story and its history presented on the same page. The second section is comprised of the previous drafts that didn't make it into the final...