In this second half, I did begin to notice some repetition that made the work as a whole seem more cohesive, rather than a random stringing together of pages. There were several settings that came up more than once, such as the beach (pages 234, 236, 239, and probably others) and the garden (I don't remember the pages, but I'm pretty sure the scene was brought up multiple times). Also there is the recurring image of the moth, found on page 232-233, among others. And of course, the same characters keep showing up, particularly our old friend toge. These elements serve to unify the piece in a way that the text itself does not, since it is rarely consistent from one page to the next. It's an interesting idea to work with in our own collages, merging both a sense of randomness with a kind of consistency.
But along with these connections, there were other pages that broke down into the nonsensical, such as pages 201, 237, and 282. Here, the collager (yes, it is now a word) cuts up the words in such a way that they are mere gibberish, or strings words together letter by letter, creating an even more fragmented effect. I'm not sure what they "meant" (silly me, looking for meaning), but I thought they were interesting, and there was certainly something disconcerting about the fact that we can't even make sense of the words themselves anymore on these particular pages; some words are partially recognizable, but we can't quite grasp what they're trying to say.
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