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after[image] is an intrusive thought born from a machine.<br/><br/>An artist processing the form of literature and the correlation between image, mirage, and physically represented voids blasted onto a POD system.<br/><br/>It is powerful.<br/><br/>This is a beautifully designed book.<br/><br/>The text is not important.<br/><br/>The images are the key to Vasicek's scope of vision and its success to convey an alternative future.<br/><br/>R.G. knows this and makes an example of it.<br/><br/>He uses words, passages, and phrases as a way to perpetuate the artifice of literature.<br/><br/>The words are cairns created by machines from past, present, and future.<br/><br/>Dead things, too, reside between these structures. Futurist markers of diseased poets, artists, free-thinkers, where their words are left drfiting, astray, gathering as galaxial residue, lending its substance to the blackness.<br/><br/>Not to say his words don't have power.<br/><br/>Oh no, the words are that particular illumination, from a distant star, forcing you to monitor the reputation of the repetitive, in the images, perhaps even the words - repetition in images, in linguistics, in the inbetween spaces.<br/><br/>This is that book.<br/><br/>They are sparse.<br/><br/>Bulletin points of experience.<br/><br/>Disentangled prose pieces, forced to light the way in this inky darkness.<br/><br/>It is a tiny pocketbook that can be read on the toilet, on the subway, on the trams of Prague, slid into a back pocket.<br/><br/>I can imagine this book in Space, forcing after- images onto their retinas and burning into their subconscious; meaningful to those who are spacefarers, those have a bond or connexion with NY.<br/><br/>They, the great space travellers, will gravitate towards this book especially, as a necessary mini-book to reminisce over, to embrace, to feel close to home.<br/><br/>This book is the LSD trip without colour the spacemen and woman need to derive substance from.<br/><br/>I loved it.<br/><br/>I w