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Schema for a set of pages whose component Notes on `Schema (March 1966)'
variants are to be published in various places. i. Using any schema (such as the example
In each published instance, it is set in its final published here) produces a large, finite
form (so it defines itself) by the editor of the permutation of specific, discrete variants.
particular publication where it is to appear, the 2. If a given variant is attempted to be set up the
exact data used to correspond in each specific editor following the logic step-by-step (linearly)
instance to the specific fact(s) of the published it would be found impossible to compose a
final appearance. The work defines itself in completed version as each of the component
place only as information with simply the lines of exact data requiring completion (in
external support of the facts of its external terms of specific number and percentages)
appearance or presence in print in place of the would be contingently determined by every
object. other number and percentage which itself would
(March, 1966) in turn be determined by the other numbers or
percentages, ad infinitum.
3. It would be possible to compose the entire set
of permutationally possible pages and to select
applicable variant(s) with the aid of a computer
which could see the ensemble instantly.
The above Description and notes to the work
opposite was first printed with the piece in Aspen
Magazine in 1966-67.
