children die of the Imagination

I'm with Rachel on this one. Some of the pages were so fascinating, particularly those in which there was (as already mentioned) coherence between text and image/color, such as on page 8, which was one of my favorites: the broken image of the hat representing "reason under a ruined hat," and the lower half of the page being the flag of England, which is also brought up in the text. It all worked together for a really strong effect, and I think it's a good example of yet another way in which we can use visual elements to add layers of meaning in our own collages. Another aspect that I found very useful in the piece as a whole was the way in which the pages oftentimes guided us through the reading by visually connecting the boxed or bubbled text to other text on the page. I thought it was a really clever way to keep us reading in the right directions, giving us clues as to which pieces of text were supposed to be read together--another helpful tool that we could easily steal for our own work.

However, as Rachel stated, there were other pages that simply seemed random to me, and created no kind of strong impression whatsoever. But that may just be personal preference. I also was uncertain as to whether we should treat each page as an individual, or whether each page was supposed to be connected to the one before and after. I skimmed over the introduction on the website (is that cheating?), and it seems like there's supposed to be some kind of narrative, but it is all very ambiguous to me at this point. Not that that's anything new...