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This is an illuminated eye test. It hangs in a local Brooklyn bar.

It reminds me of Soviet-era Hungary, but that could also be because I am reading Tibor Fischer’s Under the Frog:

“Gyuri was trying to enjoy his sojourn at the hindquarters' headquarters with extracts from these books, but although the idea had been highly pleasing, the reality wasn't as satisfactory. The Communists couldn't even hack it as toilet paper.”

Maybe it’s the “HVORK” line, maybe it’s all the “Z”s, but maybe it’s the font itself, Stalinist and steady, hunkered-down but fading. A little too steely to work well as toilet paper.