Square octavo. A cut-figure format marries, or entangles or fragments, forty-eight statements with emotional and political overtones. All are set against clouds of various grays, some more foreboding than others. The exercise of removing, replacing, montaging, arranging, or otherwise compartmentalizing the phrases forces the reader to directly, haptically participate in the heady atmosphere of contemporary political discourse. Statements like "Self respect is freedom," "There is no god but God," "They will be met with heavy force," and "Freedom means equal opportunity" acquire different senses in isolation or in context, made physically real with each turn of the cut pages. A clever, and conscient, book urging its reader toward tactile and textual scrutiny. Letterpress-printed from polymer plates, with covers parting two sides of a cloud within frame of washi paper over board. Fine. Housed in paper chemise.