II. Faire un pacte du sel

II. Faire un pacte du sel

Only as skies unfold, the ‘Flower in the Leaves’. / Between river and stream the ‘Roots of Clouds’. –Dù Gōngbù (768)

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. –Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813)

At last, Du Fu is appointed registrar at Huanhua Xi Flower Rinsing Creek of Xiling, the ceiling of China’s longest cordon that spans 2500 meters between the Sun and Moon platforms—

In William Herschel’s selenological notes to the Royal Society (26 April 1787), he ascribed, and is perhaps deceived, by volcanic phenomena the red of a star of the first magnitude—Apollo 15 (26 July-7 August 1971) returns to the double albedo of the Aristarchus plateau for the deployment of the Particles and Fields subsatellite (P&FS) where helium nuclei grate the lunar subfloor, and blooms into the vacuum of space, becoming the pumicite of Old Dutch Cleanser (1905) Cudahy Package Company patent-applied activated Seismotite (20 February, 1907)—

Once rafting microbial life; all without a condensing atmosphere of the terrestrial variant; the post-Theia, twice snowball Earths (720-635 mya), of which the Laki eruption’s largest recorded lava flow and transported aerosols (8 June 1783) were framing conditions for the economy of plants foreseen by Erasmus Darwin (1791)—Mùdan

Flowering on old wood on an eastern foundation—Indeed, they form a banner of double-flowering variety of the Chatsworth (1687), of Pemblerley, 200 meters offshore and beyond the photic zone and drop-off of tiered house goods of either comb or spindle Ediacaran propagules (635-542 mya)—Our passage sustains the heretofore unremarked upon lunar periodicity; the cross-transfer of then sunken kingdoms of Mars and Venus, scavenging the chemiosmotic mat—After paroxysms of oxidizing and radiation-resistant biota, at last, holdings find the wēijī incipience of the Cambrian (542 mya); settling on, and their commission purchased for independently evolving, non-biomineralized pigment cups of eyespots, as those seen at the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (518 mya)—Once an underapothecary, he still mixes lunar caustic, abstracting it to silver chloride, for its spontaneous electrolysis with sunlight; until finding a source, and collection of evolved gas, mimicking the set up with water (1800)—Unforeseen in the Jena of both Schiller and Goethe (1797), Johann Ritter

Commences with his ambitions in electroplating; then insufficient to present needs, the spectra where the horn silver is shaded most intensely, as a latent image, and a founding premise of photography, as Herschel (1800), once returning to infrared calorific waves with a thermometer dissipated as heat—Shortly after, the Bath astronomer plies four consistent bands of evaporated spirit of the black ground of an optical solar spectra ahead of Fraunhofer’s stellar spectroscopy (1814)—Pioneer Venus Orbiter (7 May 1979) focuses its apertures on the runaway greenhouse planet or aberrant moon in ultraviolet; later finding the snow of metal sulfides at 2500 meters (2005)—Of the many diverse color filters, the most efficacious instruments surpassing Newton’s scale on the ESA Venus Express (9 November 2005) extending the meandering path, threshold and one-point perspective, or heart of the Tang dynasty (618-907) mineral blue-green shan shuĭ

Water and mountains scrolls that anticipate the cropped fourteen color panoramas of Venera 13 (1 March 1982), whose manned return now proceeds with the electromagnetic Emdrive the Chinese are currently testing in orbit—Subsiding in these, beneath the highly tannic, staked golden fletching and water divining rods of autumn or winter-flowering genus Hamamelis—

Outward; before the museum case’s fossil imprint of unglazed porcelain on Wedgwood blue basin and ewer the burnished sulphate of baryta flagship color the stamp of which has been found on the crumbling shelf of Lyme Blue Lias; silted from an anoxic marsh of sulfur and iron pyrite rather than the rarified X-ray absorbent barite sprigs imitating the glass cameo of the Portland vase (25 C.E.), which a January gale brought down; a benchmark of Mary Anning’s previous excavation of the Jurassic record, begun in 1810, followed by an entrepreneurial effort praised by Dickens (1856)—Fading in turn, the distinctly paired flippers, with the stone eye orbit whose estimated f-length rivals our own, of another new ichthyosaur (2016)—Whose genteel hands were intincted in that jasperware; I thought distractedly leaning into the stainless undermount washing away the potted incursions of thorns, peat, and perlite, soothed by a distillation of styptic hamamelis—

From gathering field specimens the reek of wild ramps, or resulting singe of white phosphorus; finding its modern applications in rodenticide and pyrotechnics—Seen in a draped full-thickness margin visualized with a UV Wood's lamp, whose glass filter (1903) turned to the sulfur-dark, very low ultraviolet albedo in the Aristarchus plateau (1910), terminating in the wound bed the oxidation of white phosphorus, chemiluminescence, and the rate-limiting reactant of life spun in supernova remnants; at last, quenched by silver nitrate cautery sticks—Rendering the South embankment of Harecastle tunnel; an alleged haunt of a headless girl subtracted from this tenement of clay by a sharpened slate, Josiah Wedgwood encloses a diagram of this environ's strata, and nears them in his correspondence when the pursued filaments of a flower the consulting Dr. Erasmus Darwin identifies as a proto-iris (1767)—Touring Joseph Paxton’s rockery (1842) before the rejuvenation of the trout run that bears the insinuation of rusty trout—Overwintering remainders from Seidensticker’s Kawabata (1970), whose patriarch outlives the seasons in wait for the embitterment of his returning brood—Fibonacci-adherent three-petalled iris; more impressive, the hawkbit’s 21 petals present their amiable qualifications for a rank-and-file common—Some distance from the path, your footfall upends a Wedgwood button with a Boulton steel backing; the production’s hammered rim enjoins the latter’s petition to Royal Mint, reproduced in the era of Susannah Wedgwood; Robert Waring Darwin's elder cousin by a year—Their second son and fifth child summarizes the stolid character of his father, who was a Royal Society fellow at twenty-one—Perhaps heaving in the production of this manuscript; not parsing this suspicion of the psychogenic basis of his cyclic vomiting syndrome; revealed to be a mitochondrial disorder inherited from his sickly mother, Charles Darwin’s father scientist locates him on 33 Great Marlborough Street, with mold of the earth upending the son’s hierarchies (1837), yet mentions none except the platform

From a bookplate's family crest E[sic] conchis omnia (1879) becoming so much of the residual UV fluorescing pigments of once thought bleached shells before crumbling into a picturesque deposit—Third son, Thomas Wedgwood’s method of image glass-transfer by silver nitrate is presented to the Royal Institution by Humphry Davy (1802), from which we enter the narcotic plateau before resolution—Recognize this portion by Zou Boqi (1844), of applying egg white as a carrier on the photographic glass mount, and constructing a wooden box theatre to contain it—Complexes (I and II) of silver ion with DNA oligonucleotides for their complementary language—Motoring, you are encased in the thermoexpansive residual of windshields and side-rear glass, with a just detectable roller wave, the rèshuĭ

Of hot water accelerates the reaction, whose tempered glass infuser ensures the perfect cup every time—Of the two ice blocks, whose phase transition, dissolve, and flux provide the means by which Davy at seventeen undermines Lavoisier; proponent of prison hygiene and assizes, with the demonstrated théorie du calorique of friction—Volcanic froth of seismotite

Of the householder among modern conveniences; and the predawn glimpses across the phosphorescent projection across the yard, whose quartz crystal of the halogen elements cannot block their emitting 400 to 100 nanometers; dishwashing as is the prescribed set of laboratory glassware, all without the dedicated tub in the sink—Not slumbering into routines, the most yang mù

Steeps in this silvered miniature of bathing, out of the Fibonacci fountain circling the drain—At the founding of the Geological Society of London, the Tregargus Valley transforms into a moonscape for china stone (1807) following the elusive petuntse of ballast porcelain whose fired vitrification survives the abrasive coin test—Ritter’s

Fifty copper discs in electrolyte (1803) involves the first instance of a dry-cell beating Volta’s hourly storage life by six days; then sparing a second thought for glass fortified with metal oxides, verglasbar, the amorphous solid Ritter

Summarizes in his notes (1.154) that never betrays form—Capsules that become frost-bitten to which the new streamers in succession open from pliant lances of hamamelis

Travail in chalk—Metamorphic overlaying cool limestone, the more productive dolomite and marble aquifers, with photometric tracing of moonlight; confined except to say for the forked branch of Old World blackthorn or sloe, the dowsing peach limb to the Chinese—Adrian Stokes’s mazza and subbia struck against Quattrocento stone-blossoms (1932); reread on assignment, as the Xinzhou priests array a mandala of ashes before the war correspondent leaves for the capital, Auden pens the sonnet XVI. Here war is simple like a monument (1938)—A Daoist nun with a stone hymen which features in the Ming drama, The Peony Pavilion, Mǔdān tíng (1598)

At sixteen, Du Liniang’s pining is interrupted by a petal’s fall; waxing into a painter’s likeness, then a scholar’s exhumation, and official proclamation gathered 55 acts for the vaster unconscious scenes to get at to what is most longed for—Then the posthumous manuscript is intended for an female author, Vivian Darkbloom's philtre of five years, which reconciles the reportage, in locked table in office key in small box with flowers on lid (presum. peonies). a casefile and moralist’s platform

For the plain green cover of Olympia Press (1955)—Loading the frog-green Buick for summer recesses, the aerial nets, among the fiches Bristol, a passenger tours the American Southwest; the Enchanter vaporous in the St. Petersburg townhouse and the gone-forever governesses’s walks to Chesmenskaya Tserkov, with the Neogothic church opposite in royal icing and quince paste (1777-1780)—Finding not in himself the long poem Eliot had forwarded to Harriet Monroe, Pound follows with Cathay (6th April 1915); produced with Fenellosa and Japanese translators, the lùshuĭ

La rentrée of Ithaca, of the Mandarin in the autumn modes—Li Po (701-762), from whom Pound forged a synthesis from New Directions paperbooks, whose jewelled steps are already quite white with dew, / It is so late that the dew soaks […] gauze stockings—Paid for at the firm’s expense, Wedgwood delivers the molded sepia egg-and-dart Frog Service (1744) with 1244 British scenes—The plate is surmounted with a frog ambiplexed into a heart; metonymic of whose organ is an inverted ace without coronary circulation—Of what became later of Loewi's acetylcholine proof the morning after Easter's test; as prompted from a dream, wherein a salt solution, the Vagasstoff  vagaled down the Acceleransstoff urging on the sympathetic tone (1921)—After Galvani’s first electrostimulation of the sciatic nerve (1793), such then were the connotations of La Grenouillère and of the scene from the divan’s seismotite—

Pumicite triturates in a Wedgwood porcelain mortar (1759); the utility of American branch, thriving pharmacy to supply its needs, and the dust sourced from growing distances held the closing of the Garlock Fault’s seismotite (1947)—

Osler’s protegé, Claude Beck (1921) circumscribes the signs to a triad of acute tamponade (1935), whose technique of defibrillation, sternotomy, and rescue arrives timed just beyond the ascending limb of the T-wave (1947)—Ritter (1800)

Writes the heart shape must return in everything […] turns in Galvanic chains (II.386)—He too, as Jakob Boehme thought decomposed iron from came the Sun, der Kern der Erde (1620), as the Jurassic Solnhofen Plattenkalk (150 mya), whose fine-grained limestone yields jellies, the continuity of dragonfly wings and Archaeopteryx feathers; the ground Ludwig Krug sculpts in-bas relief of The Fall (1514)—Among the flecks of primary austenite hardening steel few and far between the supersaturated iron-manganese oxides resolved in fractals on the bedrock; in the whole, the dendritic formation of which Diana’s tree best illustrates, the mercury displacement by silver nitrate—Through tears, Li Po’s curtain of rock crystal, shuĭjīng

Of pyroclastic deposits, the meteoric impact of which traps meltwater in the crazing topsoil, which the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2009) plumbs the darkest basin with ultraviolet waves—Inland Europe, lacking coastal suppliers of natron, the Waldglas fired in a beech coppice, and the wood’s flux the best for lowering the melting point of sand, with blue-green iron impurities John Herschel toned in the iron-salts of cyanotype (1842)—The product of Peter Collinson’s receipt of splits, of magnolia, Venus flytraps from another Quaker, John Bartram, who is credited with the introduction of Hamamelis

virginiana (1736)—Later grafted with uncertain affinities by the fragrant Chinese mollis; browsed by feathered thorn and dagger, matures into the present tree—Waxy sepals crimped from sunbursts against a hedge of evergreen overstated in Lancelot Brown’s estates—A wych hazel whose scanty January nectar of immortality consigns the two-thousand-year-old Gūi Cáng hexagram, 54. guī mèi, of the marrying maiden pleading her lot to the Moon with its powdering of electrostatic cockle-burs, after George de Mestral’s patent hook fasteners (1955) at the seams and anchoring all things in the cabins that were progressively broken off in zero gravity—Long-term irritation making flare tree peonies of the astronaut’s sclerae, ziban mùdan

Apollo 11 and the rise of crater Arago, with its assigned stargazer aligning two dual polarimetric panes of Icelandic spar, the lunette prismatique of the July comet of Tralles crossing eastern Auriga (1819), the binary of Capella and reflected light of debris inclined perpendicularly to the coma, in the tracing of infrared when an exoplanet passes behind its star—Surveys that would have enrapt Georgian sitters at the meridians of their telescopes—Wordsworth’s MS. D (1799-1800) first known and lost at Grasmere, when […] the high spear-grass on that wall, / By mist and silent rain-drops silver'd o'er (I.503-4), with a backward glance from the silver fork novelists and their biologically mixed situations at the conduct of history—Product of the Liaoning Lagerstätten's anoxic lacustrine delay of decomposition of the bony fish, proto-birds and long-necked marine reptiles, with incertae sedis, Ediacaran discs—The life uncovered from Bitter Springs (850 mya) and its justification of eukarya from lunar samples provides the platform

Question of what first compels the multicellular to up and cleave—Membranes receding until Busch converges a beam of electrons within a magnetic field (1926)—Resolving the limitations of visible light, Ruska and Knoll (1931-33) magnify the electron image for transmission scanning from 50 nm—Now known in part, as when the skin of the virus cluster (30 nm) and secondary viral agent fouling the polio vaccine is the adeno-associated virus (AAV), proceeds with its site-specific 5,000-length base pairs locked in dormancy in the human genome; for further purification, T-helper, nuclear insertion, into a non-dividing cell platform (1967)—

Gene expression scoring its greatest promise in the neuromuscular diseases, then the high-yield AAV transfer in vivo and dose-limiting toxicities become biomedical investor seismotite (2018)—
At the Sichuan epicenter (2008, 2017) temblors stir the salt and oil of an ancient ocean, where Song salt merchants of Zigong print the first legal tender of the Yuan marked with six seals and the silver backing of jiaozi—A naturalistic brocade-shouldered piebald, which does not seem to suffer bombardment of the specialist’s regard appeared to the civil servant and horse painter Li Gonglin (1049-1106); working around the time of Wén Tóng (1019-1079), who abbreviates his monochromatic grasses shoring up the cliffs with two horsehair brushes, whose paper rivals the tensile strength of hardwood fiber without the acids of Western forests sized from bleeding, and still foxing within these vanillin ranges, a broad stretch of infrared absorption at 3550-3200 cm-1—This printed page of a scanning electron micrograph of the vascular bundles of bamboo extending tiered cables into the open air—When chilled, the meristem of the herbaceous Paeonia breaks into collaterals, where electrons reappear in the probability of a redox center, densely braiding as they had at Chatworth’s exit outside the Orangery the matte blue supercoil, a crosswise ladder wrenched because of the phosphates, as it appeared before the halting patriarch dreaming on a stone pillow, into a staircase, with its likeness fired by Alexander Macdonald-Buchanan (2016), into each ovule and aril of mùdan

Self-incompatible to its own pollen grains, the dragon flower—The Song (960 to 1279) cultivation of 200 cultivars of a fossil prioritized to Sarmatian Hungary—In the early Miocene (23 mya), when descendants of horses were three-toed, and becoming horse-faced and recessed in their orbits in Parahippus, whose fine jawline and ribboned molars were recovered in the Everglades, hastening in their Plains retreat from ice—Unlike the delayed glaciation in the Western Qinghai-Tibetan tableland, and the largest stands of otherworldly natives of magnolia and laurels, and waterlilies, the last which report the properties of UV light-activated polymer adhesive; hemostatic and enmeshed in the heart tear; now, for bio-absorbent containment of oil spills; and that floating leaves the potential hydrophobic surface that might at last be naturalized to the thiolin haze of Titan’s atmosphere—From early Earth, the alkanes and nitriles transformed by the Ritter

Reaction (1948) into amide bonds, such then is DNA catalyzed, towards the five classes of dopamine receptor ligands with fair to poor pharmaceutical selectivity—Boasting the healthfulness of the exercise; these services by an opponent who seemed four-legged, in the back and forth, and the moment until a butterfly passes between, such is the excoriation of standards, now requiring Hamamelis—

A civil situation and steadied pitch drop, and the heartthrob drawn onto Stephen Hales—On the force of sap; supplying the same secret of the force of blood on equine arterial pressure noted by the rise in a column by catheterization (1710)—This, Werner Forssmann acknowledged, threading the 60 cm probe under fluoroscopy into his right ventricle (1929), and the 5 June 1944 broadcast at 23:15, by these saturniens (1866), if enough to emphasize, Blessent mon coeur / D'une langueur / Monotone (lines 3-5)—60. Chieh, on the work of water strengthening each node, and lessen its starch in green bamboo, shuǐ—

Clay-slipped cistern’s stay and transfer to hnrt wr, the Great Enclosure at Thebes, where the dream of the Chief Cupbearer, the three vines (40:12-15) transpired on the third day, and on the solar return of the Pharaoh—Flow and branching of the three main coronaries that is the medium, and the asymmetrical polarities of shuǐ—

In plant aquaporins, the since then thirteen mammalian organ specified water membrane channels from eggs of the African three-clawed frog, Xenopus, concentrating filtrate in the renal collecting ducts (1998)—For water handling influx of water into the mitochondrial membrane following myocardial reperfusion and edema, if breakaway ectopy, post-cardiac surgery—Plan of pump wells Wedgwood sited on the Trent and Mersey for his Staffordshire village and on-site factory (1802), an expansion from the urban blight and founded on orders in Egyptomania, Wedgwood terracotta on black jasperware desk sphinx and Egyptian revival paste relief for the tapers; patterned on Denon's etchings for the Sèvres Egyptian Service (1810-1812), and from the exotica of the Museum Romanum (1746) of Tyche’s double horn and keel and Amor binding Centaurus—The holdings in Etruria paying two shillings for children to line the gold luster on the chains of the Chinese lion guardians; they indeed happen to be the foo dogs of Victorian mantles, or shíshī, of the Shinto’s open and closed-mawed lions of life and death—Blake’s plate, The Fertilization of Egypt (1791), The Botanical Garden Book I, wholly natural in depicting Anubis as a spaniel—Young Darwin; failing in this estimation, reads from his grandfather's sources, on the overworked dogs and horses, beasts of burden on four limbs, going down from paralysis of the diaphragm, and the loss of the compensatory movement of lateral ribcage (II.2.6), and the text subsequent to Zoonomia (1794-96) begins early, such when the subject licks the vivisector’s hand, and inflicts lifelong remorse (1871)—Among those whose portions are unhappily small; the largest, 32-Gb genome of the axolotl programmed for blind limb and cardiac regeneration, and is a platform

The adult mammalian heart actively constrains—That is, to find rapidly, to bind it, without entertaining any question of permeability, the astringent is winterbloom, Hamamelis

With Eastern and Western divergent lineages (7 mya) distilled for later use, as mistletoe, with its bark in dilute alcohol—A Buddhist shrine's hollow camphor fish gong is mùyú, with halved chambers with the conus arteriosus shunting to the gills, and the Matsya, first and fish avatar, and savior from the Deluge—Claude Ledoux’s composition for piano, A Butterfly’s Dream (2016) taken from the third century Zhuangzi, which is read alongside the oracular bones of the Book of Changes (1000), and in these reverberations in speculative inaction and calligraphy—Ledoux’s salt cellar and the network of iron for the piped brine at Arc-et-Senans (1775-1778) and the Château de Maupertuis (1784), a concrete sphere and interior of Piranesi’s Le Carceri (1745) in the circular iron formwork, a monumental limestone condensed into an albumen silver photograph—Distance of Zhang Heng’s seismometer reflecting a dragon’s head from any of the eight directions, which drop the ball into a brazen frog’s mouth (132 C.E)—If dental surgery superimposed on the rheumatic mitral valve of Jean Harlow, who is last pictured on the May 3, 1937 cover of Life; already, with her shadow turned behind her; and for its target audience, the issue hinting at the true aspirations of activated seismotite

Underwritten by a Mandarin system of progressive taxation, of agricultural products, the biannual langshuǐ (618-907), the zashuǐ on salt, and dishuǐ on land—Arising from Ritter’s

Suspicion that infrared would have a counterpart, until then, the sterilizing wavelengths (1877) and their accumulations in the skin submit—Mona van Duyn (1990), From a new peony, / my last anthem, / a squirrel in glee / broke the budded stem. (lines 1-4)—The envoi of Vernanimalcula (66 mya) as a bilateran is put to rest, with mùdan, which is the flow and impedance of electrons, the incivility of the tombstone rhythm, which fires rapidly, what is too slow to meet demand—

Mùdan peony, yulan magnolia, and haitang hua crab-apple, held the trinity pattern for the highest civil honors—What are men to rocks and mountains, that the seven feet of silken shān-shuǐ scree with foliage conceals the temple and artist’s seal of Fan Kuan (1000)—Until Song watercolors were supplanted by the more durable porcelain tribute, the cakes of Camellia leaves from Pu’er Mojiang Tropic of Cancer Park and Hani Gemini Fire-station, presented to the salt well auditors of Sichuan and all along the Sikkim Tea-Horse-Route; while if fermented, hand-thrown, and river-rock-polished five-clay jiànshuǐ forms a purple, if homegrown, vessel for decoctions of the heart’s fire—Seismic waves in the mantle override hydrous deposits seen in flecked Ice VII of diamonds, and progress with no further regard as to how they propagate, while at the surface the water exsolved from volcanic glass as seismotite—

From His Majesty’s porthole the shadow sweeps the green over the mantelpiece; Virginia Woolf, out from the viewing platform, now ashore shedding dry blue scales “Monday or Tuesday” (May to June 1921); until some indeterminate length in October of that year, Hart Crane’s Garden Abstract is accepted for The Dial (1921)—Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet [,] this hope contained beyond the Wucai famille verte and iron red, the latter out of which S. oneidensis and Geobacter reduce into Goethe’s lake iron oxyhydroxide goethite (1806) from the fougèrite of green rust—The one-celled performing spontaneously Ritter’s arrangement of direct current depositing the cathode layer—Before the solitary representative of Hamamelidaceae, where basifixed anthers split the winter stems, as if opening by valves, we stand there admitting the stellate hairs of their flowers—