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on a paper
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black
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a line
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between two points
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points
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black on white
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black and white
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linked
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a mark
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between
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the horizon
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a path
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larger
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smaller
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one, two
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a circle
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a square
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a triangle
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horizontal and vertical
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demarcated
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delineated
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unnamed
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unnamable
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pervasive
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unexpected
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evocative
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forgotten
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vanishing
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vanished
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a memory of a memory
(translated by G.S. Evans)
Jiri Valoch (1946) was born and lives in Brno in The Czech Republic. He focused on Czech studies, German, and aesthetics at Masaryk University (formerly UJEP, also in Brno) and is now curator of the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery in Prague. A noted concrete poet, his publication credits include: Jiri Valoch - poesia visiva (Rome, 1975), jiri valoch: word works (West Berlin, 1984), and JIRI VALOCH (Usti nad Labem, 1995). Some of his work was also featured in Concrete Poetry: A World View (Indiana University Press, 1970). The story presented here originally appeared in the Czech literary bi-weekly TVAR ("semanticke studie 2002", edice TVARy, svazek 12, 2002).
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