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Three of my erasures from The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1988 edition are in Issue 11, released today, of manywor(l)ds. “alienation echo” is an erasure of the entry on Margaret Atwood, “Competing with churches for the imagination of present-day” of the entry on architecture, and “metamorphosis (chrysalis)” of the entry on butterflies.
