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The Speed Reading Book
Containing "Square One"

Item date(s): 2012

Jan Voss  - (book artist)
Tony Burzan  - (original author)


Pages: 238pp
Size: 215mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: A/Z


Place publication: Amsterdam
Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
The eidition is lettered from A-Z. This copy is "A".

It is thanks to Hrafnhildur Helgadóttir that the piece of doggerel I published in 2008 under the name Square One in an edition of 150 copies is now, letter for letter, embedded in Tony Burzan's The Speed Reading Book. The edition of The Speed Reading Book containing Square One is limited to 26 copies as that was the number I had left of Square One at the moment Hrafnhildur was ready to reprint the Burzn book with the additions she had added by hand on my request.

A copy of the old Swuare One accompanies the new book because its form, almost conventional, at least very readable, contrats so very obviously with the absence of all that in the new book. This is the greatest kick I get from the whole thing: seeing myself produce a book nobody will evern attempt to read, or better, nobocy will need to read, because to know about it is enough. Those who find their reading has become too speedy or too slow or get confused what is what, may consider the book stand's appearance. I see it as a paradise island. Here speed is not relative to the lack of time. Can one call it ones ambition to get back to where one came from, wouldn’t that happen anyway? I would like to remind those who sense a lack of purpose in the description of an arbitrarily zigzagging journey that purpose often travels as a stowaway.

Ref: GB/13610







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