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Triple-F (Frank Freemnont Frazee) came up with an all-time-great-title entry when he wrote his pamphlet about _____ back in 1947.  I have a copy of it, purchased in a 90,000-item collection from the Library of Congress–something called “The Pamphlet Collection”, housed in 1,500 blue document boxes from 1952, all of which were categorized in a Borgesian nightmare way, according to nothing. Therefore the “General” box might have had General Electric pamphlets, or something about General Malaise, or Boston General, or General Rules of Parking in Providence (R.I.), and so on.  So, although categorized and alphabetized, it was all useless.  Among this beautiful mess were a thousand or so pamphlets like Mr. Frazee’s–incredibly titled, about stuff visible and invisible, complaints, claims, praises, warnings, sufferings, advanced supra-backwards premonitions, and so on.  My Frazee copy happened also to be the U.S. Copyright Deposit copy (or one of them, rather) that was sent to the Library of Congress to be housed forever (or until I got them), along with a carbon copy of the card catalog entry. 

The card is a work of art. (More about this pamphlet here.)

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