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"[...]a vessel cleaving the dungeon of the waves[...]"
You're Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by
sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give
consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the
one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions
barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff
could get you killed.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Never miss a word
You're Infinite Jest!
by David Foster Wallace
While you1 consider yourself2 to be clever,
there are those3 who think you're just full of yourself or, perhaps worse,
playing a joke4 on everyone around you, and yet you are pretty sure that
you really are that brilliant after all, since people would hardly take the time to
get to know you5 if they didn't care very deeply about what you had to
say to them, to wit, about their lives, their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their
drug habits, and of course what videos6 they prefer to watch, since,
after all, your impressive vocabulary and tendency to go on and on7 makes
you seem superior, able to educate them, and really drive a sense of something
ineffable into their measly little skulls while you are not above making a cheap
gag or really going after anyone or anything or telling them about incredible
futures involving tennis, geopolitics, and
1Meaning you personally, not someone like you or your own
personal daddy, for example.
2As well as you can see yourself, which, frankly, may not be that well.
3Though we wouldn't deign to be so peripatetic as to name them here, mind.
4Jokes, though not common in Victorian England, were known to originate
sometime in ancient history, perhaps as early as the time of Babylon, or even before.
It is thought that the history of the joke plays an integral role in the mindset of
the characters depicted here, though you may disagree at this point, in which case I
am facing quite the dilemma in relaying this narrative, no?
5It is rather time consuming, after all.
6Ha!
7and on and on and on...
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're The Metamorphosis!
by Franz Kafka
Though you think you're in the midst of a dream, the fact of the
matter is that your life has become a nightmare. The nightmare at first seems
horrific to you, but you are slowly able to adjust to the facts of the matter
and settle down and make do with what you've been given. There are those that
would say you're pointless and absurd, but you're really just trying to
demonstrate that people can (and do) adapt to anything, no matter how absurd
it is. Not that this will really inspire them to change, because they probably
don't understand.
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
About Me
- Σφιγξ
- possesses wholly unmerited academic pretensions; examines love as an entomologist; collects haunted dollshouses; notes the lunar phase as regularly as the temperature; peruses field guides; reads like a serial magazine subscriptionist; functions through coffee and "mood" music; draws to the very corners of the page; takes notes on unlined paper; reads poetry as prayer; observes textual authority with the incredulity of fiction; suppresses the smart-ass answer(s); adapts as well as anyone beseiged by her own bibelots; she is a sensation seeker in spite of all of this.
26 comments:
http://www.redmood.com/kavan/horsestale.html
I had a dream early this morning that we were in class, and I had received my stapled, un-ruled pages of an essay on a trip back from you. Minus values were written at the margins of the floating baselines: "...theft of the gains since May 2013."
Rather than being indignant, I accept your assessment. I no longer have the The Horse's Tale in my possession, but it has given me an idea not too far from our divagations.
https://soundcloud.com/blonde-redhead-2/ladymcbearremixlimited11214
I am aware of the pitch of being fostered or orphaned in this world, and I cannot satisfy my security needs through anyone. It is not a default path, even though I think about responsibility, isn't that how you have always been, even as a young person, responsible? I only want to it so that you do not weary of being the responsible one.
*grow weary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2727524/I-pregnant-Bogie-just-livid-LAUREN-BACALL-The-late-actress-tells-tempestuous-passionate-marriage-screen-star-Humphrey-Bogart.html
I remember scaring myself watching a certain show in the nineties, and then sleeping with the light on for weeks. It is unfortunately familiar in a plotline; I know, and images of quantum entanglement still fascinate me, but I was trying to stir a bit of unease to initiate the project. Being a killer sponge; I did take a bath, a short one, after coming in this evening. I do not like coming in from the gym with potential staph infections on my skin. After doing my errands, I forced my mother to go at 6:00 pm.
It seemed appropriate that the right decan of the March fresco enter under a monkey puzzle tree, what can I say. That arrow and ring is meant to suggest more than its most literal meaning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/fashion/01staph.html?_r=0
And I hope no one I know will need any laparoscopic surgeries anytime soon. If it is coming out about duodenoscopes, then it is only a matter of time before the polyp-looping endoscopes of the colon mill are found out. My feeling is riding the black stallion further than anything previously has gone (dessicated by the electrolyte lavage) with a bacterial reservoir on the tip is worth avoiding, now that one can guaiac occult blood on a card from the drugstore.
In my lovely immersion experience on a medical-surgical unit, there were at least three in my memory of bowel perforations from colonoscopies with long, complicated ICU and step-down stays. I bet so-and-so regretted listening to the preventative care coordinator to obtain a de rigeur colonoscopy after turning 50.
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/ucm434871.htm
http://labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/fecal-occult-blood/tab/sample/
No, I do not overly analyze the medical gaze, although I am aware of what lies between human intention and a check-off sheet, where most of the system failures and casualties are encountered.
I applied to a diagnostics lab on a lark (thinking it is something I should be doing in the interstice), and I was left a message that I was hired, but the introvert on the other end turned off her phone before speaking the last two digits of the callback. I played it for many people, and it came to naught after much detective work.
Rather than defend these experiences, I can only say that they have comprised a lot of my working life. I am less likely to define myself by my intellect and accomplishments, when they do come to fruition, knowing that there are talents and shadow work largely excluded from participation, every day. It is just a question of happening upon an open circuit. Back to work; Exercise 44.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/radically-diverse-australian-fungi-photographed-by-steve-axford/
http://geology.com/articles/fluorescent-minerals/
https://www.audubon.org/news/knests-kneedy (best application)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/67976275596468269/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-find-the-dwarf-planet-pluto-in-the-sky/
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2015/may/31/ennion-roman-lips/
http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/papyri/4711.html
Thank you, for reminding me of the addition I needed to make.
http://1drv.ms/1FOFMf6
For Exercise 45.
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=F55F42B98D0538C0!838&ithint=file%2cpdf&app=WordPdf&authkey=!AIPoV0IutZkQhlQ
I will rescan it, but for now.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3DfyJRIT4jyYWtEUFhYUzdIMWc/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3DfyJRIT4jyNF9PeFF2elJYTDg/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3DfyJRIT4jyakVQaEdJcHRaVVU/view?usp=sharing
"The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he review his whole life and find out where it occurred.
The acomodador. This fit in with my experience of learning archery—the only sport I enjoyed—for the teacher of archery says that no shot can ever be repeated, and there is no point trying to learn from good or bad shots. What matters is repeating it hundreds and thousands of times, until we have freed ourselves from the idea of hitting the target and have ourselves become the arrow, the bow, the target. At that moment, the energy of the 'thing' (my teacher of kyudo—the form of Japanese archery I practiced—never used the word 'God') guides our movements and then we begin to release the arrow not when we want to, but when the 'thing' believes that the moment has come."
https://books.google.com/books?id=mVc7G9kPNI0C&lpg=PP1&dq=The%20Zahir%20Coelho%20when%20the%20%22thing%22%20believes%20the%20moment%20has%20come&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q=The%20Zahir%20Coelho%20when%20the%20%22thing%22%20believes%20the%20moment%20has%20come&f=false
This is what you wanted me to realize?
https://books.google.com/books?id=cuMEllGGLdgC&lpg=PA100&dq=I%3F%20How%20old%20am%20I%3F%20In%20my%20twenty-fourth%20year&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q=I?%20How%20old%20am%20I?%20In%20my%20twenty-fourth%20year&f=false
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3DfyJRIT4jyRUg4YV8xSXpSRkE/view?usp=sharing
https://books.google.com/books?id=TmYJA-oqWLgC&lpg=PA24&dq=Mary%20Oliver%20%22and%20it%20must%20have%20a%20spiritual%20purpose%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Oliver%20%22and%20it%20must%20have%20a%20spiritual%20purpose%22&f=false
http://www.thelocal.de/galleries/news/1065/6
Chypres, Cyprus. Not really a compulsory item; I was thinking here of an early conversation, and were the quadrilobed flaçon arise out of nowhere, it would be pleasant to be reminded of birch resin for tanning leather.
https://books.google.com/books?id=1VgEAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT21&dq=The%20Clown%20Heinrich%20B%C3%B6ll%20%22Cuir%20de%20Russie%22&pg=PT22#v=onepage&q=The%20Clown%20Heinrich%20B%C3%B6ll%20%22Cuir%20de%20Russie%22&f=false
http://www.monsieurguerlain.com/2015/09/cuir-de-russie.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=1VgEAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT206&dq=The%20Clown%20Heinrich%20B%C3%B6ll%20%22There%20are%20very%20few%20women%20who%20can%20wear%20purple.%20Marie%20looked%20very%20nice%20in%20purple.%22&pg=PT206#v=onepage&q=The%20Clown%20Heinrich%20B%C3%B6ll%20%22There%20are%20very%20few%20women%20who%20can%20wear%20purple.%20Marie%20looked%20very%20nice%20in%20purple.%22&f=false
Suetonius. I want to read Mary Beard's SPQR, but this was made by arrangement after last night's dream. I dreamt of a frozen, flooded highway, on which I was riding a white horse into a long corridor an old-fashioned department store, with a giant lamprey attacking my thigh. I know where the lamprey arises (the Bay of Naples, Settembrini, the decadence catalogued by Suetonius on the breakage of a glass at Vedius Pollio's party), where my subconscious is trying to write the way out of the myth of Perseus and Andromeda.
*Augustus appropriated the villa, but it is a memorable story.
https://books.google.com/books?id=qyNpCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT105&dq=Vedius%20Pollio%20glass%20lampreys&pg=PT105#v=onepage&q=Vedius%20Pollio%20glass%20lampreys&f=false
http://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-burne-jones/the-baleful-head-1887#supersized-artistPaintings-205488
https://books.google.com/books?id=19T49MV8vuUC&lpg=PA159&dq=Leo%20Cygnus&pg=PA159#v=onepage&q=Leo%20Cygnus&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=yKL4CQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT106&dq=SPQR%20Mary%20Beard%20%22Rome's%20position%20at%20Etruria's%20back%20door%22&pg=PT106#v=onepage&q=SPQR%20Mary%20Beard%20%22Rome's%20position%20at%20Etruria's%20back%20door%22&f=false
https://youtu.be/XvB6AWN3m3s
https://books.google.com/books?id=66CDDgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Ice%20Anna%20Kavan&pg=PT6#v=onepage&q=Ice%20Anna%20Kavan&f=false
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-oxygen-discovered-coming-from-mineral-deposits-on-deep-seafloor/
"The work is plentiful…It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it.” ("Pirkei Avot" 2:15-16)
https://books.google.com/books?id=LB14EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA724&dq=Mishnah+Tarfon+work&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjM-ZGFhb2HAxXLD1kFHUiXDhUQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=Mishnah%20Tarfon%20work&f=false
Last night, Sharon, Walter and I played the Genus 5 edition of Trivial Pursuit (2000). It would have been a tighter game if we had played beyond midnight. I made Sharon go to the gym with me, and we played last night to break up the phone time.
Did you know that the British physicist Tim Berners-Lee wanted to name the first three letters of his directory protocol TIM, instead of www ?
Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen learned how to make ice cream from a $5.00 Penn State correspondence course in 1978.
https://books.google.com/books?id=5URBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT2694&dq=tehillim+16+apple+of+your+eye+hebrew&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIgMrwn72HAxU2ElkFHWJTCN8Q6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=tehillim%2016%20apple%20of%20your%20eye%20hebrew&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=qjPNEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Apple+in+the+Dark+Lispector+darkness+started+being+understood&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDkvuUor2HAxWoFVkFHT0LAKQQ6AF6BAgOEAM#v=onepage&q=The%20Apple%20in%20the%20Dark%20Lispector%20darkness%20started%20being%20understood&f=false
Baths are a luxury in which I cannot indulge.
The last time I was afflicted with rashes I had to take tepid showers, the smear myself with Eucerin colloidal oatmeal cream, and consciously double my vitamin d/k2 intake.
The fiery itch went away after months. It is due to internalized distress and disruption in the microbiome. I am not pursuing it further. I could enumerate lists of things that are bothering me, in multiple domains, but I have to do one thing at a time.
"The first hint that vitamin D might also be important for extraskeletal health came from mycobacterial infections such as tuberculosis, in which vitamin D was used as a treatment before antibiotics were discovered (10). The discovery that the VDR is expressed in almost all human cells has further increased the attention for the extraskeletal effects of vitamin D. As a result, vitamin D deficiency has now been linked to not only bone health but also, for example, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmune diseases.
[...]
Another line of evidence that indicates a role for vitamin D in human autoimmunity is the correlation with polymorphisms in the VDR. There are four well-known VDR polymorphisms that have been extensively studied for their potential role in autoimmunity: ApaI, BsmI, TaqI, and FokI. All of these polymorphisms have been associated with the risk of developing an autoimmune disease, although it differs between diseases and polymorphisms whether it is protective or a risk factor. Also, ethnicity plays a role in the correlation between the polymorphisms and autoimmune diseases (39–47).
In summary, autoimmune diseases are correlated with 25(OH)D3 serum levels, vitamin D intake, UV exposure, and VDR polymorphisms. Furthermore, 1,25(OH)2D3 suppresses disease in experimental autoimmune models. Although these data do not prove a causal relationship between vitamin D and autoimmune diseases, they warrant further investigation into whether at-risk individuals and patients could benefit from vitamin D supplementation
(Dankers,Colin, van Hamberg & Lubberts, 2017).
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2016.00697/full
This intermittent madness with rashes could be as mundane as laundry detergent dermatitis? Last night, I thought about the pattern of rashes as they coincided with changes of clothing and bed sheets. Tide Oxi Ultra Sport. Not again.
Aleph is today's letter, again.
Light in Hebrew is אור (ohr) or aleph-vav-resh.
The homophone for light in Hebrew is skin: עוֹר (ohr) or ayin-vav-resh.
Skin afflictions, taken to mean leprosy in Miriam's case, or tzaraat, have a spiritual root and a spiritual remedy.
On the mend. I pause here, today, to let you know that I had a dream about you, about going through your untenanted childhood home, to find you, and that I love you. It has more meaning when I do it than say it, I know.
The Covid cases are arriving just on time, again.
https://books.google.com/books?id=WQw9AAAAIAAJ&q=Dorash+Moshe+planning+his+benevolence+with+intelligence+and+understanding,+will+see+to+it+that+his+charity+is+provided+in+the+fashion+best+suited+to+the+circumstances&dq=Dorash+Moshe+planning+his+benevolence+with+intelligence+and+understanding,+will+see+to+it+that+his+charity+is+provided+in+the+fashion+best+suited+to+the+circumstances&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAi9fTyMeHAxWxN2IAHfftD3wQ6AF6BAgLEAM#Dorash%20Moshe%20planning%20his%20benevolence%20with%20intelligence%20and%20understanding,%20will%20see%20to%20it%20that%20his%20charity%20is%20provided%20in%20the%20fashion%20best%20suited%20to%20the%20circumstances
https://books.google.com/books?id=bIPuEAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA10&dq=tehillim+41+restoration+of+health&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjlx9CDyseHAxVmFlkFHcoBKoI4ChDoAXoECAYQAw#v=onepage&q=tehillim%2041%20restoration%20of%20health&f=false
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