The Getty Research Institute holds three 1960s Fluxus editions of Water Yam, each with a different style of container and a different number of cards included (between seventy-three and ninety-one). Water Yam debuted in 1963, but the copy featured here—a deluxe edition housed in a wooden box with a metal clasp—was probably assembled in 1965, since it includes the slightly later score Cloud Scissors (1964–65). It contains ninety-one different scores, enough to easily fill up the entire table. As an exercise in reckoning with the vast scope of this work, readers might imagine what it would take to arrange a performance of every single score.
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