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with private information of their lives, [[strikethrough]] as well [[/strikethrough]] THIS AS WELL OF of professional colleagues, artists, etc.

I fear that all such tapes were "designed" to isolate me even further, damage my intuition, and belief, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] dehumanize me, and deride me. Besides there were not "Anti-smoking limits" or other luxury escapes such as reading books, for example which was "caused" after the "effect" of my "illiteracy".

I am also thinking of my "illiteracy" for over 20 years of American residence, I have not read any books at all. An incident happened during my residence at Cordoba Strasse 1, where after the "effect" the "cause" was to destroy books given as gifts [[strikethrough]] to me [[/strikethrough]] to read. (DÜSSELDORF)

I am thinking also of several other "illiterate treatments" in New York that disabled me to read [[strikethrough]] and focus [[/strikethrough]]. I MEAN A "FOCUS" PROCESS

All this makes me question [[strikethrough]] or think of [[/strikethrough]] the "freedom of human rights " or "WAS IT equalization of art values"? I am certain that I was deprived from any privacy perhaps my entire life in America, and [[strikethrough]] recent [[/strikethrough]] residence DURING, 1973-1975 in Germany. I am certain [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] that in my studio in New York, 712 Madison Avenue, approximately 1969-1973, [[strikethrough]] that [[strikethrough]] my telephone was tapped. Private conversations that I had then were multiplied in sound and repeated endlessly. This was also experienced in other locations in New York, by the seaside, which makes me question the constitutional rights of free opinion. (MY OWN [[strikethrough]] EVALUATION [[/strikethrough]] OPINION AND CHALLANCE OF OTHER ARTIST'S WORK) = CONTENTS OF SUCH TAPES I CAN GIVE -

Referring to the Trust-Anti-Trust hearings, all the circulated names as from "high-up" with their numerous computerized possibilities [[strikethrough]] and that [[/strikethrough]] were deformed brutally. I would like to, refer you to my New York University lecture of 1968 [[strikethrough]] referring [[strikethrough]] to thoughts on happenings by Kurt Schwitters. 

"Take the dentist's drill, a meat grinder, take buses and pleasure cars, tandems and their tires, also wartime ersatz tires and deform them as brutally as you can. Make locomotives crash into one another... For all I care, take man traps, automatic pistols, infernal machines, the tinfish and the funnel, all of course in an artistically deformed condition. Inner tubes are highly reccommended [[recommended]]. Take, in short, everything from the hairnet of the highclass lady to the propeller of the S.S. Leviathan, always bearing in mind the dimensions required by the work

Transcription Notes:
Second paragraph the word isn't deride its devide I think it is meant to be deride... it makes much more sense in the sentence