Scope and Contents This piece is based upon the slash-dash-bracket alphabet by Robin Farquharson as modified by Dom Sylvester Houedard. As recounted by Frater Choronzon at a meeting of the Chaos Society in 1990, the late Dr Robin Farquharson was one of the most gifted individuals it has ever been my privilege to know. His doctorate for original work on the Theory of Voting ('psephology' as it's called in the trade) was awarded by the University of Oxford in 1958, and he won the Monograph Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for related work in 1961. At the time when I met him in 1968 he had recently been stripped of his post as a Senior Research Fellow ('Don') in Management Studies at Churchill College, Cambridge. I first encountered him at a meeting of the 'Anti-University'. This was a loose knit structure which operated from a series of short-term addresses. Its primary function was to promote serious academic work into subject areas which were considered to be neglected by...

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A few words are reversals but the entire sentence does not appear to be one. This is an anti-Vietnam war poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card deals with the contemporaneous political situation in Greece, e.g., a military dictatorship. The first 'l' in the ancient word for Greece,"Hellas," is displaced at an angle over the 'e' leaving an blank 'l' space in the word. It signifies the "club" held over Greece by the dictatorship. The card does not have the perforation of the 'l' as in Openings Press Card Series No.8, is larger in its dimensions, and its verso is blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card deals with the contemporaneous political situation in Greece, e.g., a military dictatorship. The first 'l' in the ancient word for Greece,"Hellas," is removed and a displaced in at an angle over the 'e' leaving an empty 'l' space in the word. It signifies the "club" held over Greece by the dictatorship. On one of the cards, the verso is rubberstamped, "poem - summer 1967, first printed edition, abson press, for d/h read dsh, happy xyzmas/newxyear." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A part of the book deals with Dowden's encounter with Dom Sylvester Houedard in Prinknash Chapel. The poems in the book appear to be composed after Burroughs' cut-up method. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.