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This book, that is also designated Tuumba No.14, was printed by Lyn Hejinian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book, that is also designated Tuumba No.14, was printed by Lyn Hejinian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawings do not have a set order and can be arranged by the preference of the reader. One such order is numbered by Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the prototype novel of psychosexual intrigue and sexual abuse. The letter from Jan McLaughlin to the Sackners thanks them for hiring and firing her from work as assistant to the curator of the Archive so that she could produce something of substance in her life as writer, poet and performer in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This novel consists of a first and last section, four and six pages in length, respectively. The other sections range from one to 12 pages in length. The reader is instructed to read the first and last sections of the book in their order while reading the other 25 sections in random order. The story revolves around a football reporter who visits a city and regains lost memories of the time he spent there many years before with a friend and his wife. Insofar as the page layout, Johnson utilizes wide spacing between words for paragraphs or dashes. Marc Saporta also published a novel, "Composition No.1," (1963) translated from the French in the same format as this book, unbound pages meant to be read in any order. Saporta's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.