Canto VII/1 The image of the Wheel of Fortune was based on a tiny drawing (less than an inch high) that I made in the first notebook of 1977. The drawing was blown up to the present size and both positives and negatives were used as the basis of the image. The adapted South African banknote exists as an autonomous print made in that Republic in 1975. The slogan with which it is overprinted is in Afrikaans: I invented it in response to the many notices I saw throughout South Africa saying 'Reserved for Whites' (Slegs vir Blankes) and had a rubber-stamp made of it with which I overprinted the banknotes that passed through my hands `Slegs vir Almal' (`Reserved for Everybody'). The face appearing on the note is tinted brown to indicate my hope that the wheel of fortune will turn eventually so that the black population will not always be, as they are here, at the bottom, a hope reinforced by Virgil's description of the workings of Fate. The idea reappears in Canto XXVIII/3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.