Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an article on the front page of the university's publication "Tech Talk" last Wednesday reiterated MIT's official policy towards computer crimes and the possible legal penalties involved...
...novel, however, is divided into three separate dictionaries, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, called the Red Book, the Green Book and the Yellow Book. To help orient the reader, Knopf's bookmakers have designed small icons, in the appropriate colors, that appear in the upper outside corner of nearly every page...
...discover that the first choice to make is which gender edition you would like to read. Knopf has published two versions: male and female. The difference between the editions is not great--only 17 lines (and I promise not to reveal which 17)--but, as the cover and title page warn, this one paragraph is crucially different...
MEANWHILE the reader is still hunting for those 17 differing lines. Every mention of male and female complements leaps off the page, because maybe, the reader hopes, he has found the crucial paragraph. And Pavic provides many such mentions, because he is fascinated by the idea that every text has a male and female half. Always a text is incomplete without at least two ways of reading it. Perhaps more than two because according to one source Khazar nouns had seven genders...
Daubmannus' 1691 warning to stay away from the Dictionary should be ignored. Still, the cautious reader might want to read the book in small increments, on the off chance that he should hold the poisoned copy, where the reader dies at the ninth page...