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This page consists of two panels with two green ginko leaves on a brown and purple mottled background. The poem reads, "Miss M Lady of experience and happy audacity - this purist delighted with Your Platonic tonic." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This page depicts a cacophany of musical notes with the lines of the poem reading, "A last note his spirit blew - see the caprice of rifled life." This drawing was exhibited at the Marion Boesky Gallery in a group show entitled "Poetry Plastique" (2001). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This page depicts a picture of a ghostly woman under a blanket of harlequin design. The poem reads, "Irma will be yours forever. Ah, my fancy fool. you felt deceiving dreamer- wicked weakness, - love, noiselessly left him, - inquire what paper person next will sprain her bed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This page depicts a mottled gray vertical rectangle in its center that floats in indistinct swirls of brown and greenish-blue colors, almost Cezannesque in appearance. The gray rectangle might abstractly represent near-death with the hope of aversion as evidenced by the lines of the poem. "ill, ill, ill, Herr doctor, ill, ill - it is nothing; but I'll send you a sound sleep; and a letter, and, if necessary, add a dream of thoughts in fancy dress - the situation shivered, gradually." This drawing was exhibited at the Marion Boesky Gallery in a group show entitled "Poetry Plastique" (2001). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This page depicts an abstsract, colorful map with land and water. The poem reads, "or not to be or never to be Hamlet from a different book - to be the sea, troubled - a read mind, a heard conscience." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This page depicts a picture of two figures in profile at the bottom of the page facing each other.There is a background of a painting on the left wall and a window with a lush green landscape on the right. The poem reads, "troubled by echoes of my childhood hammering my mind, toge I see what they do not know, I have deep kind words, that I long to say - in my affection, I long to fetch and carry for you devoted verse." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." This fourth edition, as denoted on the dust jacket but as the third revised edition on its title page, contains about 40 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. The pages are printed as giclee printes which is a high class kind of ink jet on fine paper. A purple dust jacket covers the gold cloth covered, cardboard binding. Two humument fragment prints (Canon color copier?) are included in this special edition of the book. One print reads "the life time suspect who knew the arts connect - veil his hidden drama of suspected actors - persons and names : so the changes make the book continue." The color background surrounding a rectangle placed in the center consisting of gray-black murky figures from collaged old engravings consists of line drawn faces. The poem in this print references Tom Phillips' continuing involvement with A Humument....

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The drawing is a second version of page 13. The drawing depicts an abstract constructivist design on a blue background with a slashing orange band of color. The poem reads, "a fart for moralists - with moral motives moral minds manipulate - teach doubt - contradict the general - scandalize sharp people" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem reads "fancy him darling? - coming to his hand - went on, to - to enter luding - with his tongue comes again - toge aroused." Luding is not an English word. Perhaps Phillips is using it to signify lewd or obscene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The top half of this page contains dense swerling fine black ink lines. The bottom half has a figure of a woman in a fancy dress and two brightly painted columns of color against a black background. The text reads, "shut the door, so art is in a moment denoting art - leave English art in closed bag, stamped art - instantly - toge was certain the over-dressed female was, indeed, his mistsress. so brimming iwith expense" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is of pale pastel abstract forms. The poem reads, "The sound. - art the ear praises, - holy eyes sing - beautiful hands glance up and wonder-" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is a a design of multi colored small organic forms with the shape of large wings. The text reads, "to rise on wings of dreaming fever - for Irma who haunted the courtyard of womanhood a wistful mirage constantly coming back to touch his verse-- Irma," -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is of a lush garden filled with flowers with a blue penis on the top center of the page and two entwined abstract flesh tone figures at the bottom. The text reads, "blossom seriously learn from art - show me laughing art in a laughing volume, - shy as the sky it stirs in me entering." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on this page is a blond woman in a flowered blouse ion the right side and the profile of a flesh colored man's profile on the left side. The poem reads, "love softly kept time to the music - the always known answer "yes. Tell me the question - Think of toge in the train - the moment they met again he answered some cold yesterday" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on the page consists of colorful humanoid drawings on the middle of the page and black and white forms on the top and bottom. There are two gray spheres also on the bottom portion. The text contains sever fragmented words. It reads, "after the Unauthor - end ship into endship. The virtual language in charactersof time - fusal peraments of the character ossib dang - anquil tomary - anquil bling" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This image is divided into thirds on the page. The top is a green sky, the middle contains many shadowy figures and the bottom portion consists of gray squigley lines.The text reads, "opera am adoration - prayer am music - I got religion, a-longing for my only art - art am religion" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The top of this image is a bright, firery sky below which there is a green garde and a small blue sea. There is also a human-like head with radiating white hand like extensions . The poem reads, "toge turn again - repeat the name they called you a poem ago - inspired by the gentle hand be child again," -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This image has a red roadster car on the top ot the page over a watery background.The center section contains a flower garden and the bottom a country road. The poem reads, ""let us drive!" - they drove off to the lake, and the leafage and the white wonder. - Oh, sunlit car following the road The wheels playing magical music. passing amongst pines, - drive on toge" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is of a blue speckled sky with a moon and star like objects and a large pink heart at the bottom left of the page. The text is, "Over their heads the immemorial moon and above the horns of his heart subse-quiescence. -- For the first time toge - husband love - love wife -- now for the first time." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the right side of the collage, a running abstracted figure made from old papers with black and white engravingsis depicted. The same figure made from fragmented text appears on the left side of the collage. The poem reads: "At last a letter, - and a prospect; - a prospect of pleasure - to merge with pleasure after pleasure - night acceptance. Night saw her hasten towards a man---a corpulent man," This poem probably signifies Phillips meeting his wife Fiona in the night after work at their house in Oxford. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.