THE SPECIFICS as the scenario opens are hazy; the music to accom pany the opening scene would be danceable, but not specific enough to in dicate waltz, tango, ?r foxtrot even. In the beginning there was a manu script attributed to H.D. entitled Classical Fragments at the Beinecke. In the beginning there was a publisher who visited the Beinecke in search of a manuscript by H.D. The publisher had two requirements: first, that the length of the manuscript be limited, to allow the use of paper whose quality would be worthy of H.D.'s work; second, that the manuscript allow innovation in typography and design. The publisher wished to marry a manuscript with typography and design in a manner which would state itself as why. The publisher's first choice was H.D.'s Notes on Euripides, Pausanius and Greek Lyric Poets, a manuscript whose length was expensively pro hibitive. The publisher's planned methods of distribution would not have enabled that manuscript to receive the attention she thought absolutely es sential to it.