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Hello again, Paul (and Mark?), When I first wrote Paul that I'd finally gotten my grubby hands on a loaner of your book, I was excited to see the 19th century hose gag pages, as I'd been scouring my Wilhelm Busch books for something similar. (I had found a couple fence gags demonstrating the phenomenon for which I'd been looking; but more on that below.) I don't think I had mentioned that I had just applied for a Caswell travel grant from Ohio's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library. I had thought to briefly restate the idea for my "project", but I'm copying it in whole below, with two tiny edits added in all caps: [Panorama Mode My observations and insights will attempt to recast current approaches to comics criticism and creation, eliminating the need for (or consideration of) time or timing. I have begun the first step in this task: Naming and characterizing an approach that I am calling the Panorama Mode, which was especially prevalent in the earlie

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