the aesthetics of phone book destruction

This abandoned phone book is lying on the porch of an empty house on Mine Street, and I've been eyeing it for a week or two, waiting for the right kind of light ... having been working hard at my paper for the Book Destruction conference in London in ten days time, I look everywhere for examples of former books that have either been treated creatively, or that just make a good image in their own right ... this is reminiscent of the soaked and dried work of Cara Barer and Jacqueline Rush Lee, of course - both of whom I'll be talking about.   But it also led me to a wonderful dress made entirely of old phonebooks - 750 pleated pages from them - by Kelly Murray, from Indiana, which manages to be pretty, and witty, and a far, far better thing to happen to a phone directory than the fate that met the one above.