Samizdat — "self-publishing" — was the clandestine retyping of banned manuscripts across the Eastern Bloc. Each text was struck onto thin onionskin over carbon paper, every successive copy fainter than the one before. This referent is that third or fourth carbon: aged tea-toned newsprint, faded methyl-violet ribbon text, a stitched binding gutter at the spine. The load-bearing color is aniline carbon, never black.