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A bare title page anchors the surrounding fragments in time and authorship: nineteen sixty four, Jack Smith.

Because the page is so stripped down, it works almost like a divider in a notebook. It gives the surrounding notes a date and a name, turning scattered fragments into something like a provisional sequence.

Another title page. Nineteen sixty four, Jack Smith. The book reasserts its alternate title, lowercase this time, as if the manuscript is a double-titled object: Trangie on one cover, Nineteen Sixty Four on another.