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Yellowed printed page with German text and a typographic letter-sound poem arranged in rows, numbered 8.

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Merz no 001 p 008, Kurt Schwitters (1923), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A yellowed printed page in Dutch and German, bearing a dense German text block and a typographic sound-poem by J. K. Bonset titled Letterklankbeelden (1921), set as rows of letters and symbols. The page is numbered 8 in the lower left margin and is part of the Merz periodical edition by Kurt Schwitters, dated 1923.

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