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- 1 2 C. Carr (9 April 2012). On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-0-8195-7242-4.
- ↑ http://www.neoism.info/neoist_book.pdf. URL last accessed 2014-04-07.
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