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Commentary on Approximations to the Object An Inquiry into Designed Literature news to see in the darkI shall corroborate the gap between objects and texts, interrogate the material order that design has imposed upon language, and compose a record which, though partial and far from infinite, will be profoundly significant for two fields that may seem merely adjacentdesign and literatureyet which, upon closer inquiry, reveal themselves as mutually dependent, should one have the resolve to interrogate the very grounds of their meaning. Edmund Stone,