IX. Le vert tirant [sur le violet]

IX. Le vert tirant [sur le violet]

                                                                                                                               
[…] This I paced and found it somewhat the shape of an egg, thus, some fifty paces at the longest and a pace or two over thirty at the broadest or beam, though not regular. […]

[…] Lock says in the former years the Egyptians have not lit their fires so, outside the cave, and knows not why they are so departed from their usual custom this last winter. His sheep, when first he came, seemed driven to lick the superficies where this fire had been, as if something there had tickled their animal appetites; and though none seemed to sicken for it, he had feared this sudden maggot in them and so barred them from it; yet said they would still occasion try to thrust through, for all of the abundance of sweet grass lying about them.

 This ustulated patch is some nine paces across. […]

I asked Lock whether this absence of grass was not a strange thing, to which he said yes, and he deemed the Egyptians had poisoned [potare, then, is to drink] it in the making of their salves and potions. […] My man truly observed it was more like earth at the bottom of a smelting-pit, though we saw no trace of metal or else besides. Nor, I think, is there utile ore known in this immediate vicinity. Nota, ‘tis found in abundance upon the Mendip Hill, toward Bristol . […] –Rich’d Pygge, attorney at law, from John Fowles’s A Maggot (1985)

These symbols are indicated by his Serpent Wand […] –Book of Thoth (1944)

Liber Abaci’s number increases by joining (1202); reproduced then from Firenze, on our tablet’s
Proprietary reading hinged on the countertop’s overpainted Shaker dovetailing— Lucida
For x-height, or corpus; and the first in Unicode (1993), readability—The habit of craftsmanship,
If not for the French Prophets; recognized by their aprons, as Camisards, exiled to then the most
Jacobite of towns, Manchester (1680s)—Conveying from insurrectional regions known for even
More divergent dialects of lenga d'òc, flower distillations, Catharism, courtly love, and the centuries of Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566)—24 May 1683

Accounts closed on the glazing of Tradescant Ark, where ten (originally eleven) boxwood pages of the flip-book runic almanac entered the Book of Benefactors, 1683—
Surveying ourselves in glass galleries of prints and cubical weights, if for a favorable balance of trade—Scribed for those whom Assizes had driven to the boroughs; freestanding tanneries of John Locke’s maternal lineage, before they were domiciled into a county-seat, the scraped tablets
Held the luggage of indifferent subjects—Sensory inputs, that is, until someone breaks into speech; bishop to knight’s rook of uneven
Parities—Segmental affinity of arthropods once more, far from the Burgess Shale (2015) reassembling the dorsal face of the maggot  in the cave—As it was written, in B & H’s Lucida
Typeface (1985); licensed by Microsoft for normal and bold weights, with stress of cancellaresca corsiva as italics, to which Icons, Arrows and Stars (1990) are added—Wingding character code craftsmanship
Where a lost object, a hidden symptom, an answer was ridden to summation into Powerpoint read as they are being dictated, toward the most

Facilities—Cork models (1824) of the Wiltshire World Heritage site, contiguously scored with the Scorpion mace; attained 1897-8, and appraised, possibly, from the same atelier, and matching sovereign, foremost,
In the Narmer macehead—Altogether, from Hierakonpolis; signed by the serekh’s temple roofed by a falcon, where subsequent dynasties surround the name in the seeming ring of a pool—March 1683,
Emissary of Charles XI to the Shah, Engelbert Kaempfer in his mind sought Mandeville’s vegetable-lamb of Tartary, which is found wherever the craftsmanship
Of removing the unborn fleece ranged —Interrupting here, the sire of the Quaker maid, whose circle of the thumb and forefinger, and here, one sets down Black’s Student Veterinary Manual, taken less with species, stiffens his other forefinger and firmly pierces the circle, just once—Tablets,
Applications, for the majority of which are Actineomycete and Staphylococcal in origin—Hung for his impertinence, he, whose mouth that becomes an even
Ground for wild violet’s cleistogamous flowering; nevertheless, mocks from the page, the incredible weight of this transcript—Reduced to default Notepad’s dearth of frills, TeX code for asymptote, and Bright-face text of Scientific American—Lucida

Console’s Blue Screen of Death, the cursor dilates; over que fors aus ne le sot riens nee (1963), rendered for low-resolution, pre-retina displays in Lucida

Grande—The Ashmolean’s receding Night Hunt (1470) is sized for the basement, and intended to be seen, as it would from the bedchamber spalliera of La Primavera (1477-82)—Mostly

An end, Sotheby’s July 2008 Lot No. 206, of handwritten and Xeroxed correspondence to one Van Lieshout; even

Originals falling off the online marketplace, to satisfy anonymous curators of craftsmanship—
With its signatures in melanocytes; necessarily, melanocytic flare-ups, with internal Circadian mechanisms beyond the suprachiasmatic nucleus, dopachrome tautomerase (DCT) coding gene no. 1638
Records life, now, in a child’s hands, in greater brightness, from the one displayed in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)—The tablet’s

Chest of learned tomes unclasps the Scythian lamb of the Encyclopédie (1751)—Shown, recovered (1993), at the bottom of the well’s primary context, and secondary usage, the Tel Dan tablet’s
Fragments, for its contentious ninth line, House of David substantiating The Times letter Balfour dated, 9 November 1917, and that day’s consequents—OS X’s Lucida
Grande changes to an antecedent, Helvetica Neue (1983), to align with mobile platforms—16 July 1683;
Remonstrant father buried, Hartsoeker resolves to depart for the Paris Observatory; remarkably, on that day, La maga fulminata (1638) also ran in Venice—After its librettist, Benedetto Ferrari’s surviving daughter in audience, who had not expected to live; far less a mistress, for 45 years, much less in Rome, pauses before the portraitist's likeness of her daughter (16 July 1683)—With the dioptric, at most,
A screw-barrel microscope, into which a cast baton in a bed of violets, rouses, the male generative element, and with it, undecided priority with Leeuwenhoek (1683); for how can one patent a sight, of the homunculus (1695)—Even
In the meeting house, with John Lee’s neglected backyard abutting the lane, with prickly lettuce—The purple blooms beginning in July of Lactuca serriola—From which she acquires a mild dermatitis, from her craftsmanship

Trimming them, for a nosegay; also known as the bitter herbs of Exodus, whose white exudate is a hypnotic, and at further concentrations, stimulant, for the craftsmanship
Of gods and men—Seeded of Min, whose image is omitted of his most recognized part, now in the Ashmolean exhibit; strewn among the administrative tablets
Particularly, for the afterlife—These dates, labelled and categorized by circumstance and fate; unfamiliar, to this Manchester illiterate; otherwise, than for her birth (29 February 1736), were unheard strains of the Baroque; nonetheless, there were even
Counter-rhythms to their quaking—Or the Lord Shaftsbury’s liver abscess successfully excised, and drained, with a silver spigot by Locke (1668), which purchased the use of the Earl’s library, the entry among the Whig faction, and the Rye House plot’s expulsion to Holland—Lucida
Unicode, having not yet transcribed the hieroglyphs; much less, the meaning behind their shorthand—From which the recurring, 1683,

Engraved on house numbers and jail cells, wherever Ann Lee went; knowing, while lacking the requirements to assay disciplines to notice—For most,

Exercises aesthetic demands, from their dying group’s craftsmanship—In her life, she had gained the most adherents on the Dark Day’s firesmoke; reaching as far as Barnstable (19 May 1780), while lamenting the spectacle, rather than the steady harvest of things unseen, ad vivum—Further distorted on the benches, contagium vivum fluidum, as a virus
Of knowledge overridden its agents—Circumspect, we regain a search of the 1683 maggot of a dead girl’s face,  and recover the solar work of the Emerald Tablets; here, we are prompted to insert, despite even Lucida lettering, or otherwise, effacing all indications of library ownership, the afternoon’s visions of the violet patina of shakudō sword hilts as the vegetation bolts upright; unoaked, the body more frail, finished by its imparted three gazes—