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30 PROJECTIONS (Jenny Holzer projects poetry on the façade of the New York Public Library from dusk to midnight, October 6 to 9, 2005.) The words, made of light, rise out of darkness to slither up the library steps, block letters climbing: the steps, the columns, up into the arches, broken by the walls of the arches, losing some letters in their recesses, then climbing higher to reassemble, gather the lost letters, slide up the frieze, ascend to the pediment and upward, into the night sky, the words invisible now, filling the air above Fifth Avenue. Over and over, the words rise out of nothingness, sliding up from darkness to the steps, climbing the columns, arches, frieze, pediment, sky, over and over, and the air above the library filled with books is filled with words, escaped like cooped-up children freed. The air is dense with words. The world is made words again as, in the beginning, the Logos, starting with the word made light, and climbing. ...

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