Scope and Contents This page depicts three horizonal, large, calligraphic markings possibly symbolizing chaos on a background of light white cross-hatching layered on blue and red color in the upper 80%. The lower 20% is a solid black color. The red and blue backgound might symbolize bleeding and black color at the lower portion of the drawing death. The poem reads "future began - the night of long white words - that day was reckoned the first day of it - the opening number." Here Phillips might be referring to The Night of the Long Knives {white words?} or more commonly called in Germany the "Röhm-Putsch," a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political executions. Most of those killed were members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary Brownshirts [Wikipedia]. Adolf Hitler moved against the SA and its leader, Ernst Röhm, because he saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of its members for street...

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This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. The Humument text of this print reads, "truant and hiding, could I such a step? - I could I could I could I could I could - I must - a suicide of tragic temper - made mistakes with me - I long to come back to my face once more." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "Already the dream of dreamshe whispers - water blind imagination- speeding away piercing the dull - all came floatingtrue men - othe very names - touch the sea -pouring past world to mountain -The greenseen for a minute." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "Already the dream of dreamshe whispers - water blind imagination- speeding away piercing the dull - all came floatingtrue men - othe very names - touch the sea -pouring past world to mountain -The greenseen for a minute." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "Already the dream of dreamshe whispers - water blind imagination- speeding away piercing the dull - all came floatingtrue men - othe very names - touch the sea -pouring past world to mountain -The greenseen for a minute." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Image consists of a dense arrangement of indecipherable markings and signs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicted in "Tom Phillips: Works and Texts 1992 on page 87. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.