Parts of an English dictionary are cut away in the shape of a W, whose further contortions become symptomatic. Once detached from its place in a roster of lexical entries and wrenched from its clean alphabetic geometry into various pretzel-like shapes, this supposedly stable letter of the verbal system works to typify all the ways human vocabulary gets deliberately bent out of shape. W not only references the letter in the alphabet, but alludes to the fumbled phrases of speech by the 43rd president, George W Bush.