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Each of the small booklets contains part of the three volume story. The booklets are bound in black fabric and tied to small wooden toothpicks with thread. The booklets are placed in a small metal case that is hand engraved with the title Academy of Memory. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text is based upon Maurice Blanchot's "The Writing of the Disaster." the Sackner Archive also holds another copy of slightly larger dimensions that has photocopied pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The first letter of each page is collaged and colored red. The Circus of the Dead is a midsummer event of Melbourne's gay and lesbian festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text is printed on the right facing pages. The left facing pages consist of varyied typographic designs of rubberstamped letters of the title and Asian calligraphy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The two loose sheets describe undesirable side-effects of capitalism and a site list of watchdogs and gadflies. The currency consists of five photocopied 20 dollar bills, realistically reproduced on the recto and containing environmentally incorrect sites on the verso, e.g., Mexico strip mining, Rewanda genocide, Burma forced labor, Brazil deforestation, and Los Angeles toxic ghettos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Theme of this book is peace and cooperation among people. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The texts used in this book were written by Margaret Atwood, Nick Hornby, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others. Stored with Archetype Press material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author indicated that the "book" is a translucent envelope containing six "certificates" with texts addressing: Surveillance & Knowledge, Surveillance & Purity, Surveillance & Reciprocity, Surveillance & Glamour, and Surveillance & Absurdity. In between the certificates are the SurVeils - masks of onionskin paper with different life-sized images of closed eyes with little eye-holes: To hide your open eyes and aid in "surveilling your surveillors." To reinforce the deception, at the bottom of each veil is rubberstamped "my eyes are closed." Adhesive dots can be attached to the eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text that is printed as a horizontal line of words on the translucent paper pages is taken from "crowds and power" by Elias Canetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book deals with the kikking of great auks byhumans on Funk Island. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page contains 16 rows of handmade X's for a total of 4668 crosses in this book. They represent approximately 1/500 of the votes cast in Scotland on the general election of May 5th. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page contains 16 rows of handmade X's for a total of 4668 crosses in this book. They represent approximately 1/500 of the votes cast in Scotland on the general election of May 5th. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.