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Amage chicha is a bitter fermented corn drink in Latn America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The loose sheets contain the poet's biography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Peter H Barnett: Can you tell me how what you are doing now is to do something philosophical? (Assembling Press, 1980) consists of handwritten philosophical questions arranged four to a page. Each page has a rectangular cutout of a quarter, a horizontal half page or a vertical half-page, allowing the questions to be seen in continually changing groups and associations. The title expresses the theme: what would it mean to act philosophically, or to take a philosophical initiative? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bann discusses Furnival organizing transportation of "Clyne" constructions, vowel screens, three columns, Ed Wright's "Four Sails" glass, "Ajar" wooden construction, "Ark/Arc" in plastic...[and] column with "Wave/Wave" to Nottingham, and the possibility of using Mayer's "Ampersands" for a wall or outdoor display. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Letter concerns setting up, transporting and caring for Furnival's work at the first Brighton Festival as well as asking for an indication of the arrangement of Furnival's panels and whether Houedard could associate with the project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Peter H Barnett: Time Trap (Assembling Press, 1980) is composed of twelve 8 1/2" by 12" sheets folded and stapled in booklet form. A loop of thread connects the midpoint of each page. The work explores various dimensions of the book form through four series of diagrams accompanied by texts and instructions. These graphic-textual progressions migrate over the outer margin of adjacent pages, through the gutter on the inside of a folded sheet, through the gutter on the outside of a folded sheet, or across the gutter from one page to the next. Three of the graphic progressions are v-forms which narrow and elongate as they migrate. The fourth is a string of numbers 1-12. The texts associated with each progression express attitudes of waiting, disorientation and entrapment. The four progressions are all there at once, but never meet: only one progression can be pursued by the interactive reader at a time, hence the title. The accompanying introduction, "Open Structure for a...