Compline (written as compiline in reference to the varied spellings of the medieval source materials) is another fold out section with digitally printed, typewritten and hand printed elements.  The images and details relate to many of the previously established contexts from the other sections. The fragmentary and unstable poetic language echoes and refracts its source texts. The final section proposes a call for attention to various intervals including those of deep time as read in rock formations as well as the histories of oil production and our contemporary reliance on fossil fuels. The female figures of the Ancrene Wisse are refigured as potential activists in a contemporary era of environmental disaster and climate crisis.

The listener is invited to join the manicules and femicules in walking the book.

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