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This is No.2 in a series edited by Will Parfitt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Andryczuk's title substitutes "American Excess" for the "American Express" credit card designation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The words printed on the card correspond to the actual objects in the case. They are as follows: flash (light bulb); seer (figure in yoga position); AHA (blank booklet); seek (key); sigh (beads spelling sigh); find (compass). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Sandra Jackman writes to the Sackners that this piece was inspired by her Hungarian grandmother who always told her, "To read is to want to know." She hid candy and books in the second drawer of her bureau, where Jackman would forage. "I was grown before I realized that I had been seduced into becoming a reader. In Europe, the rabbis would drip honey on scripture written on slate for the young students to lick off after they repeated the lesson...This early freedom to investigate any form of reading material, to appease my curiosity is the inspiration for Adults Only, a book within a book. My grandmother's bureau is transformed into a dollhouse cupboard and collaged with scraps of printed matter. Its shelves are filled with treasures. This is the centerpiece for a triptych (a style usually reserved for religious images). The front left wing refers to a myth. The fellow with the flute to his lips is from a painting by Perugino. Marsyas the Satyr is showing off his talent to the God...

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The tube is collaged with paper that contains old German text. It is burnt at the edges. Two corks seal the ends. The rod is collaged with letraset letters and is wrapped in tissue paper that is printed with wishes for a Happy New Year in an unidentifiable language. It is tied at both ends with string. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A polyvinyl fragment from a found bag was utilized as the stencil for the print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Five drawings were made by Cepl and 4 drawings and a collage by Broel. All of the works are unique in this edition of 30. Broel's drawings were superimposed on sheets of found handwriting by others while Cepl's are in his own calligraphy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue contains a photograph that is reprinted and reproduced in (Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings. The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Reprints numerous collages from Serif (volume 8, number 4, 1972, Marijuana Newsletter #2 (1965), The Day is a Prayer they Can't Understand (1967), Cleveland Undercovers (1966), All Gods Must Learn to Kill (1967). Also reprints Farewell the Floating Cunt (1964) in its entirety. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title sentence first was printed in the Kilburn Times and was also the title of an exhibition curated by Mathew Abess at the University of Pennsylvania,. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem was made by linking headlines from the New York Times which are pasted onto a white ribbon to form a scroll. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dyar writes on the label, "On Palm Sunday 1996 I picked up this palm branch at Saint Dominic's Church. It hung for one year on the wall in my studio & on Palm Sunday 1997 it was burned down to these ashes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This assemblage is a quasi-book object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.