This heralds the use throughout the book of a verbal commentary made up of treated fragments of the Victorian Novel A Human Document by W. H. Mallock, which else forms the basis of A Humument (Thames and Hudson 1980). Phillips comments: Having once boasted that Mallock's turgid text was an inexhaustible mine I here put it to its sternest test, to parallel the visual commentary of the plates with verbal glosses that might act as an alternative line of markers as the reader follows Dante's journey. I have been using Mallock's book now for twenty years; another twenty or so and we both might make it to Paradise. The image here presents a marbled world (the world as book) with a missing segment to indicate the hollowed cone of hell, here oriented sideways to act as an arrow pointing into the book. In Taoist cosmology Ch'i, the moving spirit of the universe, is expressed in art by marbling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.