Kurt spent several years working on an analysis of western art through an exploration of a ready-made sculpture created by Marcel Duchamp in 1916 called "with hidden noise" (shown below). The "hidden noise" emanates from an object placed within the open core of the ball of twine when it's turned upside down. Speculating on what the object is, Kurt's 350,000-word opus (edited by his close friend Clifford Barney) is the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and learning, knitting together art, history, culture and society into a well-woven fabric.
You can read Kurt's "Pretext" here or...
The entire work resides on a server at Sacramento State University; here's the link.