In a "Note on Methodology" she explains she's presented "rewritten and greatly condensed letters" by Jameelah that are "reconstituted" versions of their originals.
A little less than half the letters written by Plath to her mother, and represented in this volume, have previously been published, albeit in condensed form: "Letters Home: Correspondence 1950 1963," selected and edited by Aurelia, was published in 1975.
Inspired by her passion for written forms from multiple cultures, including Middle Eastern, Far Eastern and Mesoamerican, her black-and-white relief images are rich with calligraphic marks, camouflage, patterning and symbols, which allude to signs and letters, condensed and illegible.
Rotunda letters are condensed with sharp curves where the strokes change direction, and the feet of the minims end with an upward curve of the pen.
When Max uses an ellipsis to condense a fascinating letter from Wallace to his editor Michael Pietsch about his reasons for using endnotes in Infinite Jest, one wants to snarl at him as if he were a waiter clearing away a plate we hadn't finished.
His work can be extraordinarily condensed, as in the colossal letter "I" adorning the outside of the Baltic on a banner.
And that same mantric text is then further condensed into each syllabic-root letter of the Sanskrit alphabet itself, which thus serves as a means for meditation.
Since the FDA is meeting to discuss the issue on Dec. 2, I am posting an updated, condensed version of my original letter below.
Mr. Li also helped the designers adjust their logo, from a basic all-caps style produced on a typewriter to one that looks slightly more ominous, using a bolded version of a Times font that has been condensed so severely that the letters start to vanish.
It was, however, possible, in the lack of the letters themselves, to use for these years the "Digest and Précis" of Admiralty Correspondence, which gives in condensed form the substance of each letter sent out or received.
