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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 book is dedicated to Linda Depew. The title refers to the slang expression for a woman's unshaved vagina. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The mostly French text consists of hand painted photographic reproductions, collages, and decoupages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The artist has used a large variety of calligraphic styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of brief phrases in varied font sizes. Some the pages are adaptations of the texts in Wyndam Lewis's Blast magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a recreation of the original manuscript, printed in five colors, with additional coloring and stencil cutting by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a recreation of the original manuscript, printed in five colors, with additional coloring and stencil cutting by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a re-creation of the original manuscript, printed in five colors, with additional coloring and stencil cutting by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was critically reviewed by Marjorie Perloff in Harvard Library Bulletin Vol.3 No.2, 1992, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. This is the trade edition of the book that was first printed in a limited edition of 70 copies in 1990. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was critically reviewed by Marjorie Perloff in Harvard Library Bulletin Vol.3 No.2, 1992, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Theme of this book is dreaming. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The story deals with a shape denoted by dye-cut perforations on each page that varies in form and size, e.g., circle, lozange, rectangle, etc. The minimal text describes the changes in shape, number, and size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The silkscreen print was done by Jean Dubuffet and the aquatints by Parant. The latter consist of two prints side by side on folded paper. The Parant prints are composed with small handdrawn 'o's equivalent to eyes. A critique of this book translated from French to English was found on the internet. "And this text enjoys without end, the words are tightened there as the hands are tightened to cherish and embrace the night: the signs are coupled with the collectable one to press the curves of the ground as the touching members link themselves with the reliefs of the darkness to dig the matter and to enjoy in its centre. It is the joy of the closed eyes, the deployment of the fingers in love with the invisible one. The words are tightened there as the eyes are tightened to link one the other and to be linked with the light: the signs are coupled between them and are projected in the fire of the sun as the members indicators amalgamate with the source of the glance so that is born the...

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The book is bound into a folder in four sections so that the pages may be turned in random order thereby constantly changing the story. This format is the same as the booklets with spiral spines on all borders published by Kickshaws. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.