How It Is in Common Tongues was composed by searching for the text of Samuel Beckett’s How It Is using a universally accessible search engine, attempting to find, in sequence, the longest common phrases from How It Is that were composed by writers or writing machines other than Beckett. These phrases are quoted from a portion of the commons of language that happens to have been indexed by a universally accessible engine.
URLs (all pointing to non-Beckett uses of the phrase "how it is") that are printed on the cover of the book:
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soundcloud.com/lu10records/sets/enigma-dubz-how-it-is-ep-out/ amyoscar.com/awareness/how-it-is/ www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/billy_talent/this_is_how_it_goes.html www.riverwalking.com/component/content/article/53.html www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8o2Z8yN0gA www.usp.org/usp-nf/development-process imgur.com/gallery/gDZlb www.facebook.com/pages/Oh-i-see-how-it-is/270639104358 front.moveon.org/harriet-tubman-tells-it-how-it-is/ www.metrolyrics.com/thats-how-it-is-lyrics-lee-evans.html www.metrolyrics.com/thats-not-how-it-is-lyrics-toby-keith.html www.bicworld.com/en/products/how-its-manufactured-shavers/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e_8j-kACrk www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHc-6EB80Xw www.ssa.gov/pubs/10070-09.pdf computer.howstuffworks.com/bittorrent.htm www.metrolyrics.com/this-is-how-it-goes-lyrics-billy-talent.html www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8629616ACDD7C82E www.youtube.com/watch?v=22WbTZiaHFQ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science vimeo.com/9177725 imgur.com/gallery/gYDox thusandsuch.wordpress.com/ 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The notes at the bottom of each page give the shortest url (often one of many) that we were able to retrieve for each phrase cited. The first in a sequence of citations provides, in parentheses, the date when we found the phrase on the web page given, and immediately subsequent citations will have ‘id.’ instead of a date, where this is the same as that last provided. The number following the date (or ‘id.’) is the total number of occurrences found for the phrase, as searched on that date and for the search engine we used. Note numbers are hexadecimal.
How It Is in Common Tongues is produced on demand and hors de commerce, in an edition limited to 256 copies, numbered 0-ff. The first f copies are signed by the artists.