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I · recto [ENTER, STAGE LEFT]
I · verso [CURTAIN RISES]
a numbered edition — printed in vellum

MasqproT

the masquerade is in session

[FOLIO I · the cover]
II · recto [the cast assembles in a frieze]
II · verso [hover, and they tilt to you]
FOLIO II

Dramatis Personæ

Six marbles, six humours. Each veined by the same noise yet none identical. Approach them: they will rise three degrees and look back.

III · recto [soft helium]
III · verso [bubbles carry the libretto]
FOLIO III

The Bubble Aria

(scroll past and they pop — releasing their lines into the gutter)

IV · recto [twelve disguises, shuffled]
IV · verso [hover — they blink, they follow]
FOLIO IV

Atlas of Masks

Twelve composed from six mouths, eight eyes, fourteen ornaments. The shuffle is yours alone, printed once.

V · recto [the colonnade hushes]
V · verso [bubbles trapped behind reeds]
FOLIO V

Interlude

Between scenes, the orchestra rests its bows. The audience has wandered backstage and discovered a bathhouse made of meringue. Somewhere in the wings, a putto raises one finger to its lips and says nothing.

The masks do not require you to choose. The columns do not require you to stand. The bubbles, having no agenda, drift sideways through the fluting and out into the margins. This is the intermission — perpetual, voluntary, lit by stage gels the color of butter.

Read slowly. Or do not read. The sentences will still be here when you turn the page.

VI · recto [the chorus converges]
FIN [bow, dissolve, exhale]
FOLIO VI

Curtain Call

MasqproT

[FIN]

an edition of one — signed by the page itself