There was a brief explanation and a web address at the back of the book, and if anyone made it to the site there was an invitation to become a distributor of the book, to join in the process of placing it in bookstores and libraries.I spent a few months like that as 2001 came to a close: October, November, December walking through a New York stunned by September 11, developing the habit of nonobedience. Bookstores would have to either purge the book or harbor it.

If they wanted it, they would have to decide whether to walk out with it like a shoplifter, or whether to negotiate something with the sales clerk. The back cover said only 'this book belongs to whoever finds it.' I had printed 1,000 copies of it, and the idea was to create a kind of situation.Someone who came across the book would have to decide what it was and who really owned it. I had uncopyrighted the text, placing it in the public domain (no rights reserved), and labeled the book as free. Its content was a list of 13,000 words I had collected over ten years. A bypasser of gateways, permissions, and procedures.The book was called Free Words, and was an art project of mine. I slipped it into the shelf among the F's (file under Free) and it was done.So I began my career as in infiltrator of public spaces, a thief not of books but of shelf space, of access. Standing nervously in a bookstore, in front of the section on literary theory, hidden from the eyes of the staff, I reached my hand into my bag like a thief and pulled out a hot pink book. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ethics & the Environment 8.1 (2003) 61-73 Free Words to Free ManifestaSome Experiments in Art as Gift Sal Randolph Free Words It began this way.

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