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I hesitated only a moment. Vasco had wanted me to give him the book, so Missier Grande had come for the book, so the chiefs of the Ten had sent him for the book, and if the chiefs knew about the book, then they had Jacopo Fauro under lock and key. 

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I suppose so, but I doubt if their rivalry ran to murder. Orseolo had a woman attending him. I didn t hear her name and she stayed close to him. Next came a foreign couple, who did not introduce themselves to me. They spoke in French with barbarous accents, questioning me about the books. They knew nothing about books. All they were interested in was price. ... 

The organic chemistry of phosphorus is scattered about the book with important reactions in Chapters 14 and 31 (the Wlttig reaction). 17 (various nucleophilic substitutions), 23 (conjugate addition of phosphines), and 41 (mechanisms involving phosphorus), in Chapter 46 you will see how important phosphorus compounds are as ligands for transition metals. 

Art s utopia, the counter-factual yet-to-come , is draped in black.45 Darkness marks the place where possibility holds out against actuality. Black works against the deceitful sensuality of culture s facade. Adorno s insistence on black reacted to what seemed a world of ever-louder colours. In 1959 he observed colour s high-pitched shriek in all too much more intense and conspicuous colours . These new colours turned book jackets into advertisements for themselves, in efforts to shake off all that is bookish, old-fashioned and retrogressive about the book.46 Parodic sheen was too able to be misunderstood. Colour may be life s colourful reflections, but it was also a mechanism for drawing attention to the commodity heaven of the post-war. These new commodity colours were synthetic, and the synthetic came to be a testament to the new improved temper of life itself. 

So said Elias Ashmole, a seventeenth-century writer about the books of the great Alchemists. . . and this book is no different. 

B ut right before this book went to press I got a nice present from a dear, sweet Uncle. You know who I m talking about. The book he sent was called Metal Finishing Guidebook Directory Issue. The address of the publishers is ... 

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