The
original novel tells the story of Freya Roth and is a warning of the rising
German fascist state at the cusp of World War II and the Holocaust, emphasizing
the dangers of the Nazi machine that brings destruction and defies humane
principles. By altering the spatial organization of the text while preserving
the placement of text relative to its original location along a line of text, I
was able to create a physical and metaphysical space among the text, indicating
a gently sloping path beyond good and evil that Freya was experiencing as she
skied through the mountain slopes. I reordered the text chronologically
backward to start the piece with the theme: beyond good and evil. I also
isolated certain elements of nouns and verbs to highlight the hard, cruel,
exacting nature of artificial manmade goods in juxtaposition with the fine
quality of nature and what lies beyond manmade phenomena. Finally, I added
typographical elements such as punctuation and prepositions in order for the
piece to make grammatical s