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This book, which is divided into four sections, consists of black and white photographs of Masic striking different poses against a poster with the word, 'ego' printed in a dense, rectilinear grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The book consists of two parts entitled eunoia and oiseau. Bok notes that Eunoia is the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels and means 'beautiful thinking.' Eunoia is a univocal lipogram in which each chapter restricts itself to a single vowel and owes a debt to Georges Perec. As Bok notes, all chapters also abide by subsidary rules. Oiseau is a French word that means bird and is the shortest word in the French language with all five vowels. It is an anagrammatic text. Although this is the 14th printing of the book, Bok struck through this phrase with ink and overwrote "1st Edition By Fiat." Steve Venright was the producer for the campact disc reading by Bok.The cover states" " 'Euonia', which means 'beautiful thinking', is the shortest English word to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them all, except that each one appears by itself in its own chapter. A unique personality for each vowel soon emerges: A is courtly, E is elegiac, I is...

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This book reflects the "multimedia art project that uses high technology and lowbrow kitsch; it encourages will-intentioned dialogue between different ethnic groups and razas as well as exposes some of the trashiest jokes and ethnic slurs found on mid-America's minds." The performances documented in this book deal with the low esteem that Americans place on the the role of Mexicans in American society. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.