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This newspaper is a political spoof with regard to the region's efforts to tax Finlay's garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book was designed by Richard Eckersley and is one of the most outstanding examples of experimental book design for a non-fiction book of the 20th century. The main text is formatted in terms of indexing like the white pages of a telephone directory and the footnotes and index are printed on orange colored pages to simulate the yellow pages. The page layouts include mixing of fonts, fragmenting sentences, overprinting, sentences constructed like Parole in Liberta, and interspercing of diagrams.The first part of the text deals with the philosopher, Heidegger's Nazi leanings and how one of his subsequent excuses related to a telephoned request for action. The following sections continue to attack his philosophical theories as well, with themes of psychoanalysis and telephone calls, and the place of the telephone in American society. Alexander Graham Bell and his relationship with Helen Keller are described as well as his work with Thomas A. Watson. "Remember: when you're on the...

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The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue is also subtitled "The Travel Issue.

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The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. Jennifer Clavin, the lead vocalist of the punk band "Bleached" contributed several wonderful graphic, concrete poetic designs depicted in this record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The main text is printed in English and then on the flip side of the book, in French. It seems to be a memoir of Federman's experience in anti-Semitic France before WWII. The center portion of the book is a text by Maurice Roche "Echos," which is written in run-on French with each page reprinted in mirror image on the verso side. The text is unpunctuated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The main text is printed in English and then on the flip side of the book, in French. It seems to be a memoir of Federman's experience in anti-Semitic France before WWII. The center portion of the book is a text by Maurice Roche "Echos," which is written in run-on French with each page reprinted in mirror image on the verso side. The text is unpunctuated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The recto text deals with Finlay's artworks stolen by the Strathclyde region's tax collectors. The verso quotes a text by Blunt on the Paintings of Poussin dealing with TERROR and VIRTUE in Arcadia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This Christmas presentation book subtitled "On the Way to Little Sparta" was conceived by Finlay and photographed by Robin Gillanders. It relates the closing of Finlay's famed garden by the Scottish government. The sign on the first gate into the garden reads, "Following the authority's action against the Garden Temple, Little Sparta is closed to the public." The second gate sign reads, "Strathclyde Region made war on Little Sparta - Strathclyde Region is no more." The third gate sign reads, "Closed with the support of The Scottish Arts Council." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reproduced from poster political texts published in Lyon, France in 1870. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first of Heimrad Backer's books to appear in English, transcript is an experimental Austrian writer's literary confrontation with the Holocaust. transcript is a disturbing document. Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad Backer presents quotations from the Holocaust's planners, perpetrators, and victims. The book offers a startling collection of documents that confront us with details from the bureaucratic world of the Nazis and the intimate worlds they destroyed. Backer's sources range from victims' letters and medical charts to train schedules and the telephone records of Auschwitz. His transcriptions and reworkings of these sources serve as a reminder that everything about the Shoah was spoken about in great detail, from the most banal to the most monstrous. transcript shows us that the Holocaust was not "unspeakable," but was an eminently describable and described act spoken about by thousands of people concerned with the precision and even the...

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This is a comic novel on Canadian military forces on WWII. It is the first British and American edition of the book first published in Canada in 1949. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Printed by Stellar Press, this is an attack on the adverse criticism of Finlay's Garden Temple for its architecture in the book, Follies, A National Trust Guide. In this print, Finlay reviews the etymology of the word "folly" and notes that it is derived from the latin word "follis" meaning a ball, balloon or bellows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title refers to Richard Nixon and the text printed from Ferlinghetti's handwriting is critical of Nixon's actions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.