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The page turns expectation into an image of emptiness and then resolves into a small act of renunciation.

`A highway / without any billboards` is a strong image for stripped expectation: forward motion without instruction, advertisement, or promise. The closing decision to `throw away the / mail` makes the page feel anti-bureaucratic and anti-obligational, as though contact with the world has become disposable.

A short declaration. Our expectations were like a highway without billboards, in other words Neil Jack and I decided to throw away the mail. The page states the era's creed of intentional blankness.