The lettering appearance of the poem is reminiscent of some of the calligraphic pieces by Jan Baker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts a portrait of Beuys through a text that is handwritten in darker and lighter lines to form the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts a portrait of Proust through a text that is handwritten in darker and lighter lines to form the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts a portrait of Goethe through a text that is handwritten in darker and lighter lines to form the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text is written in green ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book also has 16 blank pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages are black heavy stock paper and the binding is smooth black leather. The handwriting on some pages has been done with graphite and on others with black paint mixed with glue to create an appearance of letters in relief. The writing consists of indecipherible calligraphic markings done in a variety of styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The page count is only the original handwritten ink pages not the bleed-throughs. This book includes a collection of varations of individual letters: 1) letter 'a' five pages, 2) letter 'i' five pages, 3) letter 'o' five pages, 4) letter 'u' five pages, 5) letter 'b' three pages, 6) letter c' three pages, 7) letter 'd' three pages, 8) letter 'g' three pages, 9) letter 'h' three pages, 10) letter 'l' five pages. The images of this record depict the variations for the letters 'd' and 'l.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was conceived at The American Thoracic Society annual meeting in Washington D.C. where Marvin Sackner was inaugurated as its President. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text was written on translucent paper and then folded such that it remained on the inside surface of the sleeve pages. The ink writings appear as mirror writings on the outside surface owing to transmission through the translucency of the paper. The text was written on a slant on part of each page. It gives a Moebus strip-like appearance when the book is opened and several pages are viewed simultaneously through the translucent paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.