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In 1932 Raymond Roussel wanted to make the complexity of his nested texts (which through endless lists, asides, footnotes, and parentheses with 9 levels of interlocking reference are not easily accessible), more comprehensible through the use of colour printing. The publishers initially rejected his experiments - which oversteped the paradigms of the book culture. A "Roussel - Reading - Machine" is only first shown in 1937 at a surrealist exhibition for which he had the text mounted on cards in the fashion of a round register: the upper edge is coloured according to the level of interlocking reference. The cards are installed around the axis of a drum, which the reader rotates with her/his right hand via a crank, while she/he arrests the desired text card through an upwardly protruding coloured marker with her/his left, so that the related text cards (of a particular level of interlocking reference) are presented in sequence.