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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.
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A few subjects of current interest:
http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/SpeciesPages/Spp%20Thumbnails.htm#algae
http://www.medicine.org.hk/hksdv/journal/2008v16n03-09.pdf
http://www.drugs.com/cons/castellani-paint-modified-color.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLP0DuAOY0k&feature=PlayList&p=9E4C1ACD8238AD14&index=0&playnext=1
The Glyptothek with the remaining standing of the Peloponnesus...in Parian marble.
My face feels like I spent the night on a grill.
And again, tonight, with feeling.
I am marinating a pantoum, though...along with the superior colliculus. I am reading Dangerous Muse and Musicophilia, by turns, since I am not sleeping...
Nice wallpaper, "Freundschaft" and circuits...
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~svb/main.html
http://www.imeem.com/restlessrejoices/music/DQbTW95W/tom_waits_emotional_weather_report/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYOMzEh09GY
COMRADE
Petits mois petites fumées
et l'oubli en robe de laine
une porte s'ouvre tendrement
près du mur où naît le vent
près du jardin bienheureux
où les saints et les anges
ont peur des saisons
Les allées n'ont pas de noms
ce sont les heures ou les années
je me promène lentement
vêtu d'un paletot mastic
et coiffé d'un chapeau de paille noire
Je ne me souviens pas
s'il fait beau
je marche en fumant
et je fume en marchant
à pas lents
Quelquefois je me dis
Il est temps de s'arrêter
et je continue à marcher
Je me dis
Il faut prendre l'air
It faut regarder les nuages
et respirer à pleins poumons
Il faut voir voler les mouches
et faire une promenade de santé
Il ne faut pas tant fumer
je me dis aussi
Calculons
je me dis encore
j'ai mal à la tête
Ma vie est une goutte d'eau sous ma paupière
et je n'ai plus vingt ans
Continuons
Les chansons sont des chansons
et les jour des jours
je n'ai plus aucun respect pour moi
mais je vois de voyous
qui fument les mêmes cigarettes que moi
et qui sont aussi bêtes que moi
Je suis bien content
sans vraiment savoir pourquoi
Il ne suffit pas de parler du soleil
des étoiles
de la mer et des fleuves
du sang des yeux des mains
Il est nécessaire bien souvent
de parler d'autres choses
On sait qu'il y a de très beaux pays
de très beaux hommes
de non moins charmantes femmes
mais tout cela n'est vraiment pas suffisant
Le vide étourdissant
qui sonne et qui aboie
fait pencher la tête
On regarde et on voit
encore beaucoup d'autres choses
qui sont toujours les mêmes
innombrables
identiques
Et là-bas simplement
quelqu'un passe
simple comme bonjour
et tout recommence encore une fois
je lis dans les astres la bonne volonté de mes amis
dans un fleuve j'aime une main
j'écoute les fleurs chanter
Il y a des adieux des oiseaux
Un cri tombe comme un fruit
Mon Dieu mon Dieu
je serai donc toujours le même
la tête dans les mains
et les mains dans la tête
Philippe Soupault (1919)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekUUuU7whe0
I will get to purple-tipped surfgrass and carrageenan.
http://www.josieiselin.com/portfolio/an-ocean-garden-book/
http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/SpeciesPages/Additional%20Species/Saccorhiza.jpg.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/science/that-stinky-cheese-is-a-result-of-evolutionary-overdrive.html?_r=0
"For years, scientists found little evidence of horizontal gene transfer among eukaryotes — species such as animals, plants and fungi. But now that scientists are taking a closer look at more genomes, horizontal gene transfer is turning out to be more common than previously thought. Last year, for example, researchers found evidence that ferns acquired light-sensing genes 100 million years ago from another plant species called hornworts.
Cheese molds, too, are enthusiastic adopters of foreign DNA, Dr. Rodríguez de la Vega and his colleagues found. Up to 5 percent of the entire genome of each mold they studied was made up of DNA from another species.
This DNA has been jumping between species within the past few centuries, the French scientists report — probably as a direct result of cheese making. The fact that chunks of adopted DNA are identical in different species suggests they were shared recently, in evolutionary terms, and haven’t had enough time to pick up new mutations.
The scientists examined the two biggest chunks of DNA transferred between molds. The biggest, called Wallaby, contains 250 genes. The next biggest, called CheesyTer, contains about 60."
Thinking about this, at some point.
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/institute_basic_biomedical_sciences/news_events/articles_and_stories/aging/2014_11_a_race_against_time.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209918/
https://books.google.com/books?id=GYtHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA836&dq=laminopathy+charcot+marie+tooth&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAjtWxtZ7fAhVntlkKHWlPD0sQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=laminopathy%20charcot%20marie%20tooth&f=false
My maternal grandmother's condition; although, it seems to have diluted through subsequent generations.
Yes, my favorite song by Mick Harvey is "Blue Arrows."
I listened to "Emotional Weather Report" on my walk last night.
https://books.google.com/books?id=4GkpDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA58&dq=purple+emperor+butterfly+blue+cheese&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju1t-zpL78AhX2EFkFHVBTBYQQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=purple%20emperor%20butterfly%20blue%20cheese&f=false
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33596341
Yes, The Mountain in the Sea (2022) teases humanity's transition to AI companionship. Parts of the hacker's story take place in Turkey.
As I look toward communicating with other animals, I am still convinced that you know me best.
The Purple Emperor is a Palearctic species in Europe and Asia. The Purple Hairstreak can be found in Europe as well, but one is more likely to encounter the latter in North America.
I retired early so that I can clear the decks, and put the purple hairstreak mistletoe image I have in mind to paper. I will put it here.
The Purple Emperor exercise:
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AsA4BY25Ql_1m3iQ0ECS7GC9LsQZ?e=5wIfgL
For a future Card, Mener l'enquete
The Ray Nayler book out January 16th is anticipated!
https://www.tor.com/2023/08/30/the-job-at-the-end-of-the-world-ray-nayler/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THMuDCcN2B8&t=47s
I had a hair appointment scheduled, tasks, and continuing education for work...now; with a cancellation, I will read this 99-page text.
https://books.google.com/books?id=pVC4EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT6&dq=The+Tusks+of+Extinction+Nayler+%22The+pink+calf+lay,+untouched+by+poachers,+as+if+she+had+fallen+asleep.%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDsbuagoOFAxW0kokEHX0mBfQQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=The%20Tusks%20of%20Extinction%20Nayler%20%22The%20pink%20calf%20lay%2C%20untouched%20by%20poachers%2C%20as%20if%20she%20had%20fallen%20asleep.%22&f=false
The compliance requested of me from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm, with everyone with their three-plus small children off from spring break, in a salon chair receiving lowlights, highlights, and toner was great. My shortcoming, after paying the going rate with product, is that I did not bring a cash tip.
I must do better next time.
Exercise 91.
Yes, I followed the prompts over the suggested point-of-sale percentage, which made my independent contractor report more on her form 4070 for withholding.
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