Go to Eratio for four more sample frames and the afterword by Gregor Vincent St. Thomasino as well as Nico's response to that, and an additional brief essay by Gregory that's not in the book.

I'm more out of it than ever, having had a tooth extracted yesterday, but probably wouldn't have much to say about Nico's pieces, anyway. One important point: their effect is cumulative--an ever-more-fascinating growing body of hints toward some narrative. But just the partial words are enough for me--the "overe," above, for instance. A carnival of associations: "over," of course, but "ere," "here," "ovary," "verity" (and all the other "truth" words based on the Latin)--which just does unify enough, for me. Perhaps the sequence works best as a representation of fragmentation--a puzzle to be solved, but also an image of the concept of the torn text, with all the links that has to decay of languages, of messages, of attempts at meaning, at markers of of human lives--but also, more positively--with the lastingness of language, the revivability of the past. Stampologue thus acts as a celebration of the Word, too--and of the ability to read.

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