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A Humument author-anton-van-der-schans ' was how The SpectatorIn 1966 the artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second hand book for threepence and alter every page, by painting, collage or cut up techniques, to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junk shop on Peckham Rye, south London. It was A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W. H. Mallock. I took a forgotten novel found by chance. I mined, and undermined its text to make it yield alternative