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Scanned opera synopsis, the prologue of L'incoronazione di Poppea: Fortune and Virtue dispute supremacy until Cupid arrives to settle the matter Book page of Oscar Wilde's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, pencil-marked at 'No artist has ethical sympathies' and ending 'All art is quite useless' Page 10 of Marguerite Duras' Hiroshima Mon Amour script in English: their talk mingles themselves with Hiroshima, she appears dressed as a Red Cross nurse, and Nevers is highlighted where her past begins Printed page on Korean p'ansori: a single singer and one drummer enacting entire epic folk tales, eight hours of song, speech, and stylized gesture Cover of The Sandman: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman: a pale arm stretched over a green-tinted castle, a weathered book pinned to a black disc above Tekken doujinshi page: a boy reads happily about Paul Phoenix's towering flattop while grandfatherly Heihachi looks on, headed So what if I'm a Paul fan! Bleached scan of page 45 of Borges's The Garden of Forking Paths: everything happens to a man precisely now, and the narrator inventories his pockets A thin strip of printed text reading The labours I endured were Page from a Dutch lexicon under U, Uurwerk: water clocks from Egypt and Vitruvius through Su Song and al-Jazari, ending on sultan al-Kamil's candle clock of twelve doors Spread of One Hundred Years of Solitude, pages 196–197, with 'Cease, cows, life is short' highlighted in yellow

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