This work is a varient of Curriculum Vitae VII which was exhibited in the Phillips retrospective at the Royal Academy in London 1992. Phillips' use of "Words-words! Make me a rose" in this painting is derived from page 353 in the original and first revised edition of "A Humument." The poetic autobiographic statement of Phillips' elementary school days was composed by Phillips himself. The underlying text of Phillips' poem depicts the word "Llareggub." In 1954, the BBC broadcast Dylan Thomas's play Under Milk Wood, apparently unaware of the fact that the name of the fictional Welsh town Llareggub described in the play was an ingenious literary back-slang creation, namely, "bugger all" spelled backwards. The taboo nature of "bugger" is marked by the fact that Brophy and Partridge felt it necessary to dash the word in their 1931 compilation of military slang. Up until 1934, one could be fined or imprisoned for saying or writing "bugger" and has even been called "one of the most unprintable words in British English." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.