In 1966, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W.
It began.
As I worked on it, I replaced the text I\'d stripped away with visual images of all kinds.
Mallock\'s A Human Document , and began working over the extant text to create something new.
The artist writes, "I plundered, mined, and undermined its text to make it yield the ghosts of other possible stories, scenes, poems, erotic incidents, and surrealist catastrophes which seemed to lurk within its wall of words.
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In 1966, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W