Schriftatlas II, 1a
I have crossed an ocean, a hemisphere, and the continents which cleave them, in pursuit–of what?–perhaps scarcely more than some new means by which to see the infinitely visible things […]
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Schriftatlas II, 1b
… vnnd fuer auß von der Santt vieZendo Jm 1553 Jar vnd Am 24 tag Juni an Sannt Johanneßtag so begab sich Jn disser Zeit daß wier 14 Lanng auff […]
Schriftatlas I, 1a-1b
What word is stone enough to weight this ruined bilge? It is mid-morning in the second or third week of September, in the year of 1944, close behind the Vistula […]
Schriftatlas II, 2a
Where does construction end and ruin begin? What distinguishes destruction from decay? The swift jetsam of a dropped or blasted bomb cannot share the attributes of that slow detritus which […]
Schriftatlas I, 3a
Yet, what of this activity of collecting per se? What of collection? Is it not, tacitly, an obsessive act of repetition, each new item acquired simply to re-open the same […]
Schriftatlas I, 4a
[Unintelligible: first line completely obscured by water stain] …that each object may just as well suggest the seed, or nucleus, of a collection to which it might eventually or may […]
Schriftatlas II, 3a
[The recto of folio 3 features two diagrams, one apparently superimposed upon the other at a later date. The first, rendered in black ink is redolent of Michelangelo’s human figure […]
Schriftatlas III, 3a-3b-4a-4b-5a-5b
[NOTE: Folios 3a-5b of the third notebook contain, if not the strangest, then certainly the longest, by nearly double, of all Valaco’s entries. Thematically, the entry is anomalous in equal […]
Schriftatlas I, 5a
/ 1554 †Den 20 tag september ist mein brueder thoman Schmidl seilliger mit tott verschien nen Zwieschen 2 vnd 3 veren nach mietag gott sey Jm gennedig vnd parmhertzig vnd […]
Schriftatlas II, 3b
I’ve no longer to make a language. I’ve no longer any language to make. All the basest elements have decamped into the humid din, retreated into a dense, recondite, impoverished […]
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