Buzz Spector’s signature gesture has been to tear pages carefully out of books into seemingly unending vertical strips, so that the texts inevitably lose much of their meaning, but achieve a touching inchoateness. Fragments of letters and words can still be discerned within this Babel, and Spector’s almost ritualistic act suggests both destruction and renewal. Typically, his disruptions call attention to the underlying structures of his source materials, revealing their origins in the most fundamental cultural constructs, but in A Passage, 1994, Spector departs from his usual practice. Instead