This was only the fourth piece Latham created with books, his relationship with them having begun as a formal need for a flat and solid element within his work. However, he increasingly recognised their capacity to exist as symbols of the accumulation of human knowledge and exploited their use throughout his career, this being one of a number of renowned instances in which they were abused. In their destruction, Latham infers the removal of the very structure and form of language, something expanded to include the space- and object-based tradition in which we exist. In so doing, Great Noit does much to undo the control structures of this tradition, condemning it as inadequate for describing the universe he saw as time-based.