Monday, March 25, 2019

XVIII. L'entre deux



Indeed, the scenery here resembled certain areas of the moon’s surface even more closely than the land around the city of Luna on the map. Was it six months now or longer that he had been pouring over that map in his library when for the first time he had heard Luna’s footsteps passing high above his head—although it probably had not been Luna at all?
      
He threw down his pack and took shelter in the shade of the ruined hut. Surrounded with stinging nettles, which where were growing rampant here, and a swarm of flies which refused to be beaten off, he carefully surveyed the landscape before him.

Jane Greene’s 1956 translation of Der Graf Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1955)

One never paints what one sees or thinks one sees, one paints with a thousand vibrations the blow received, or to be received, and how can one cry without anger a head in one hand and a platform in the other.
–Nicolas de Staël, 3 December 1949, Lettres de Nicolas de Staël à Pierre Lecuire 1949–1955, Pierre Lecuire, Paris, 1966).

Having found the non-reproducible blue pencil convenants reasonable, of those who would one day do so, Materialaktion and other Mühl happenings
On the slab or the mensus, and reclaiming the consequences of repasts—First is Marrella (Mid-Cambrian of the Burgess Shale), or the lace crab (1909) with fern-green filamentous appendages for respiration, and the contents clasping a single molecule of oxygen curiously staining their sills with type-3 copper hemocyanins
Functional hexamers of arthropods and of molluscan decamers that in the latter combine and compress form with higher affinity under polar, nearly anoxic conditions—Besides the notion of hemoglobin and stress hemoconcentration in mackerel, whose histidine residues for heat-stable scombroid toxin are soonest mediated by antihistamines—Norway spruce starvation seasons tightened for tonewood and young needles for tea among the wood-slashed area cresting the Zinkeneck scanned for poached chamois, towards their fodder, and the ruthenium (JS07) antitumor adjuvant combined with formic acid, as if rubbing ants into the wound, with nettles
Carol interrupts before the deposed veterinarian Alexandre Jezierski in Gabu-Nioka (1953-1957), whose still extant Vero line of the Chlorocebus monkey, human immunodeficiency virus (HSV-1) vector within kidney-cultured oral poliovirus emerges as the prime zoonosis; inoculated with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which may have been tested on the inhabitants of Stanleyville—Hypostasis of these Viennese contemporaries, the dermatologist Kaposi who typified these viral blue smears, and the immunologist Landsteiner
Of the ABC blood groups—Ohne antigen added and later found with the highest prevalence of HBV and HIV serotypes, with Rh typing with Wiener (1940), followed by the differing human leukocyte antigen (HLA) of graft failure—The hectacomb bespattered catacomb of San Sebastiano fuori le mura, the vermilion wall bending under the blunt force of his palette knife and artist’s eventual suicide (16 March 1955)—Forgotten where her ungloved hand bends to sign the second C.O.D.
The vernis à ongles, for which she shuns the red spectrum for a related word, the vernacular, on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet Edward Hopper (1942)—Weeks after Pearl Harbor against his mentor, and a change in wind shear, Charles E. Burchfield, at the conclusion of his golden year in 32 years, Nighthawks at Twilight (1917-1949)—She finds necessary for the Nagellack in the image of a nail forming red pools, lacking nothing to be affixed to that debt to order, the just-wrapped shibori perse

Kimono and mono no aware rendered under the common merchandizing to the reopened West (1853)—Safflower red benibana summer weight in a bound resist pattern of spider silk or storm align the perseverent
Bird steadily along a banking turn of the recurved glass of Nighthawks at the Diner (1947) Ridley Scott envisioned for Los Angeles (2019)—Until the Chinese sample-return and happenings
From the facula of brightest soda ash bearing glimpses of the organic chemistry from Ceres (2020)—To close in surgery aided by the opponent process green before the enlarging red square—Augustine’s intraoperative warming blanket (1987) exhales warm air strafed with nosocomial onset—Of red-eye fatigue, out of the retorts from Posillipo villa of uranium glass tesserae; the afterimage still apparent rising above the 55°- 56°C at which coagulation does not occur (Simpson & Rasmussen, 1916)—Except for that restive tribal order of the plain brown wrapper and C.O.D.
Discretion of the double silver impregnation of Golgi and Ramón y Cajal for the retinal ganglia (1906) Young (1970) used for reticello pattern of the octopus brain, whose circulation optimizes oxygen acceptor sites at which copper I oxidizes to copper II isoforms of hemocyanin
Dispersed in the biological methane recognized by the life discovery bore at depths beneath Enceladus’s 30 to 40 kilometer ice shelf—The probe programs for five micron tolerances of electrical discharge machining (EDM) exceeding the planed six to eight microns of a blood vessel’s diameter—Landsteiner’s
Filterable particles of poliovirus (1908) followed Flexner’s Rockefeller lab with no results reinjecting samples of the spinal cords into the same of the Rhesus macaque; nearly depleting the entire Indian species, until the return to intestinal washings and Weller, Robbins and Ender’s culture of non-nervous human poliovirus (1954) grasping the nettle

Of two decades prior to Muller's report of two chimps in the Cologne children’s zoo demonstrating flaccid paralysis advancing the Swedes theory of oronasal and oro-fecal routes—Poliomyelitis, whose legacy is a third recombinant vaccine-derived strain excreted following the widely distributed attenuated oral polio vaccine (OPV)—A self-replicating RNA genome; rather a thing, identified by its capsid proteins, whose neurovirulence typed by monocyte or macrophage transference, that it follows antigen presenting cells (APCs) secreting the cytokine interleukin-1 (IL-1) for the hypothalamus to cue the flare into fever, and the now immunotherapeutic IL-4; likewise, manipulated by M. tuberculosis glycolipids, to stimulate bone marrow engraftment and proliferation—There is the interleukin family at the basis of neurodegenerative Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis (MS), and when pro-inflammatory permutations respond to sterile insults—IL-1Beta autoimmunity induces matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) set on the interchondral space; relieved by hox alpha or 13-hydroxy-octadecatrienic acid derived from stinging nettles—
Hollow haired delivery beneath same-stemmed dioecious flowers—The very isolation and persecuted
In the plate engraving of Urtica dioica otherwise burning in two houses—Deploying touch mediated, delayed-hypersensitivity contact dermatitis resting on Landsteiner’s
Hapten protein conjugates, the culminating theory since his colleague’s blood serotypes fastened the first test card (1908)—Eliot found the best of Marianne Moore submitting to the Egoist with a free hand with the particulars and on the happenings
Of "My Apish Cousins" (May 1918) as "The Monkeys" (1925) going on about an eluting column or gel plate well, and the subsequent result type by the number of assays detected, the summation, not for us to understand art; finding it—Silesian deposits of the object in apple green chrysoprase with nickel inclusions that fractures as other serpentinites, the choice of neon and after much incongruence of the Stroop test under the effect of the essence of Arte Povera’s puckered twin mattresses, Senza titolo combustio (1970) after Calzolari’s bound, solitary inner-sprung base of the same, glabrous desire binds senz'altri rumori che i miei (1971)—Further perceived fastidiousness at the marina’s ossified but overbrimed eye, the keyhole limpet (KLH) and azure bleeding hemocyanin
Of Megathura crenulata differentiated by a barrier of eons so as not to bind mammalian sera as carrier protein—KLH presenting antigens to antigen presenting cells prompting cascades of B and T cells into immune response tagged so as to engulf toxins, proteins and drugs, and those of abuse implicated in the C.O.D.

Cause of death—If, in the next life, we can still remember the flaring cresset, entombed in zero-gravity with embedded sensors within the spacesuit at once rescued by the blockade of interleukin-6 receptors coupled with diet modified for a emergent if overturning towards detrimental Firmicute/Bacteroidetes load (2017), and then a reversible depression—Joyce reels out of the Via Monte Brianzo 51 (January 1907); and not reading between pupils, recalls a name from Thomas Browne’s library, Antonio Bosio’s Roma Sotterranea (1632), passing each day the stadium beneath Sant'Agnese in Agone, which is peppered with the Pamphilj doves for patrons of Manuzio's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) in the piazza in agone, Piazza Navona of Bernini (1651), and the hidden personification of the Nile where a veil obstructs his gaze—Borromini (1653) rationalized using the forced perspective employed from the gallery to the garden of the Palazzo Spada (1632) in the Sant'Agnese transepts—How the maker of the Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza (1642-60) with its corkscrew lantern and hexagonal floor plan collapsed haplessly upon an unsheathed sword the stated C.O.D.
Written by the architect himself—Along Villa Mattei, now, Celimontana, to the fragment of the obelisk of Ramesses II (d. 1213 B.C.E.) whose comparable monuments program intrigued Borromini, who, too had his shoddy stonemason beaten to the point death when offered a hemostatic infusion of nettles—
Into a cylindrical, side-by-side organization, where hemolymph flows freely in spiders perfusing the brain independent from the heart, there are the subunits of stable oxygen-binding metallocomplexes of hemocyanin—
Uptake because the spider and the nettle are caught in their work; a pain through no fault of the third book of The Contemplations (1856), O sort! fatals noeuds! (III.XXVII.10), where formerly pigs may have strewn refuse, Lucien Pallez’s apotheosis of Victor Hugo (1905) in the Villa Borghese opened as a public park (1903)—A setting of free copper in aquatic environments dosed at higher concentrations, as algaecide or pool clarifier and swine growth feed amendment—Copper neurotoxicity as beta-amyloid plaques if not excreted in the bile’s biliverdin—In the manner of rhesus to human vaccine transmission of polyomavirus from the Cutter Laboratories (1954), whose hog cholera vaccine boasted the first tissue culture—Viremia that persists undetected until farrowing and in the butchered cuts with no disease signs as a zoonosis in humans, just as there is no evidence of sustained brain damage from the oligodynamic thimerosal with ethyl mercury as a metabolite—There is the anticoagulated phial’s buffy coat otherwise known as crusta phlogistica of spun plasma, platelets, then white cells that demonstrates isoagglutination described by Landsteiner
Transfusing the blood components from donor to another, fraught with postoperative leukocytosis and atrial fibrillation in cardiothoracic patients, which justifies the effort to achieve leuko-reduced packed red blood cells universal—Jessiersky falls into the arenarium among the overturned dried ampullae of martyrs viewing in his mind’s eye of their happenings—

Of the Aragonese Antipope Benedict XIII, Pedro de Luna; as the pozzolana lacerates his lungs, who convenes the 69 hearings of the disputation of Tortosa (1413-15) to summarily banish the Talmud,
for the chief evidence that the Temple remains unbuilt, followed the happenings
Of public book burnings and generations-curtailed employment epidemic to Spain and then to Portugal driving the conversos and faithful to municipalities of Hamburg such as Lüneburg (1580s), founding seat of the shipping company of Jessiersky’s wife’s father that will continue without him, with his distant relation and nemesis, Count Luna, with his dissolved share of the company—Peleus and Thetis, and their union radiated through the ash spear wielded by their son, Achilles—Likewise, the prophesy of the scorned wife Hera speaking through the gift-horse Xanthus, and struck dumb (XIX.417)—Visual salience and blindsight of the pulvinar; a thalamal afferent, and an emptied seat prepared for her from these impoverished materials in the galleries of Europe composed of soot, fallen lead sheets, and refrigeration components, with the wire net and neon lights of an installation by Mario Merz, Tincta purpura tegit fuco roseo conchyli (1989) from Catullus (LXIV.49), by rose-red dye from the red-mouthed rock shells (Thais haemastoma) apart from the Hexaplex and Murex tinctures of royalty, the fugitive mother of Achilles, who, at every indication would end in their seining—Albertine, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, together with the regions to occupy also Lithuania and Poland once governed by an expert at fox tossing, Frederick Augustus II the Strong, who endowed a malachite vault financed and decorated by his court jews—From his dungeon in Dresden, he forces under the penalty of death, the alchemist Böttger’s refinement of porcelain that still bears his crossed swords of the house of Meissen (1720)—The Elector of Saxony and Poland (1696-1763) ends with this sublunary C.O.D.
From interleukin-mediated peripheral insulin resistance; porcine, malnourished and poisoned from the complications of type II diabetes—Ineluctable modality of Miłosz, whose witness to the shattered rose-colored porcelain, white gold, which troubles him most (1981)—Vehicle of Landsteiner
And Popper’s resolve to eradicate a filterable virus that passes through porcelain vacuum filtration—
The febrile and inflammatory 1°C rise in body temperature at the marginal cost of a 10–12.5% ramp in metabolic rate (2015)—Celan’s Nesselweg and Nesselnachtricht, nettle way and nettle
Message conveyed since Canaan, from the Akkadian, Kinahana, red-purple and phoinos, blood red of Phoenicia where shells are crushed, ignoring the large molluscan polypeptide precursor to the metalloprotein, hemoglobin, which fans the lungs of Planorbidae, hemocyanin—
Two-subunit respiratory protein (Hc1 and Hc2) of the ovoviviparous mother confronting G.H. in the absconded maid’s room, as though every repetition worked to send a command order to my heartbeats, the tropic’s Dubia cockroach per se (1964)

With its preferred fruit diet and egg case, the ootheca, whose air-hardened network of the copper-binding analogue of hemoglobin conserves within the first emergence of the nymphs, before the tracheae branch within the cockroach's dorsal vessel, or heart—Perseveration
At that threshold, confounded with flow; together, with the wooden hod carriers of granite blocks up the 186 steps where they were cast, one misstep in the gang on the tread frozen with blood, for the overseers to reclassify the happenings
On the Weingraben as suicides—To pave the Grabenstrasse along the broken shadows of Berthier’s Monumental Break (2015)—Luna, from there, along the Mauthausen network to the Ebensee salt tunnels, which remain closed from 1909 to 1965, where families tramp through the Hallstatt, all the while the prehistoric salt man slept (1734)—Textiles, as transport companies, depressed economies could neither wipe out nor expedite—From the Huguenot Courtauld-patented viscose process (1904), expansion of artificial silk mills and Superfund sites, acquiring Akzo-Nobel’s Tencel (1998), now leading the industry in aerospace components where low-gravity humanity tumbles bechained in Velcro (1955) and other tight-weft livery protecting from incursions of meteorites and regolith, a proximity as yet undreamed of by Dr. John William Draper and his first twenty-minute exposure on daguerreotype of the Moon (23 March 1840)—Named after a piece of clothing, the disrobing disgrace by the forum’s toga praetexta, there were the resultant tragedies by Ennius beyond the Annales’s recorded eclipse 350 years since Rome’s founding, the Nones of June, the moon and night obscured the sun (21 June 400 B.C.E.), Ennius, the self-described medium where the soul of Homer enters, and the exposed son of Thyestes, with the choroi of supporters culminating in the playwright’s loss to gout; Aegisthus, who brings down the House of Atreus, fulfilling Apollo’s prophecy (169 B.C.E.)—The salt in the marine and estuarine environments increases oxygen-binding affinity of hemocyanin
In the sidestepping crab—Annabelle Krebs Culverwell (b.1902) taking the name Columba, from the constellation of the dove and stargate of Egypt, tef and dove Allen (1899) identified in the language equivalents; Tefnut, twin of the air, Shu—She drew from the pyramid’s point of contact, with illustrated planes of vibration and boomerang—Bloodline of the Wehrmacht general Hans Krebs co-delivering the white flag (30 April 1945) to the Soviets, speaking fluent Russian and with monocled right eye—A recessive loss of function gene in the Krebs cycle in retinitis pigmentosa explained by the Nobel laureate Hans Adolf Krebs’s phosphate-activated citric intermediates of metabolism (1953), from the enzyme arginase to form ornithine and urea (1904), in each evidence of manometer pressures off-gas oxygen in their processes—This prepared chance-understanding credited to his mentor, Dr. Otto Warburg, whose Institute accessions since 1880 collapse magic and science into the iconographic database that includes a Goujon print of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1546)—Madame Grès, Germaine Émilie Krebs, then Alix, who lends the evening’s perse-colored classical drape to Dietrich, Callas and Garbo, whose C.O.D.
Remains undisclosed; reported a year following her death (24 November 1993), and refraining from a tattered monument, now the company became a Japanese brand (1988)Suspected descendant of Nicolas Krebs of Kues (d. 1464), elucidating the straight and curved lines, the leap beyond simple likeness (1440) for Kepler (1597)—Landsteiner’s
Observations dependent on the tests of naked eye, agglutination, then the next step, Clavaria zollingeri, the violet coral fungus, performing as lymph nodes on their surfaces with in-vitro bacteria in lymph agglutination—Known for the high vitamin C content of the roots, stems, and stinging nettle

Distinctive forage among weeds decanted in the organic fraction inactivating NF-κB transcription; and shortly, diminishing the inflammatory pathways of psoriasis and arthritis—As if to appease the fire of the nettle, urticaria, with the perseverant, perpetual intelligence composed of ground vermilion with its purple oxide layer decomposed into mercury—
A metal demonstrating efficient transport versus other metals in Landsteiner’s blood groups, and accumulating twice the concentration as maternal blood, the C.O.D.—
Deferring then towards a stasis of morphology since 445 mya, the Limulus hemocyanin divalent copper active site tethering oxygen, the lysate of the same that coagulates Gram-negative lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of biofilms and systemic capillary leak syndrome; the horseshoe crab, in each orbit convenient for the sun and moon, the black moon's vacancy, highest among the full moon tides—



17 comments:

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2198493-the-weird-and-wonderful-inner-moons-of-saturn-revealed-by-cassini/amp/

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.space.com/israel-moon-lander-earth-selfie.html

Σφιγξ said...

A black moon season occurs this July, on the 2nd and 31st. I hope to have the Exercise completed in that interval.

Σφιγξ said...

"Sorby's careful analyses demonstrated that eggshell colour was determined by substances that were also in blood and bile, but did not produce those colours in the way that many of his predecessors thought. [...] Essentially what he previously deduced about the colours in plants turned out to be true of eggs, too, and was due to the 'relative and total amount of a limited number of definite and well marked substances.'

Sorby gave his seven eggshell pigments some horrible names, although they are logical and decodable, most obviously those with the prefix 'oo' which simply means eggs: (1) oorhodeine, (2) oocyan, (3) banded oocyan (the band here refers to a band seen in the spectrum during analysis), (4) yellow ooxanthine, (5) Rufous ooxanthine, (6) an unknown red and (7) lichnoxanthine.

We don't need to worry about these names because, even though subsequent studies gave them different and equally difficult names, there are in fact really just two classes of eggshell pigments, protoporphyrin and biliverdin, both of which are involved in the synthesis and breakdown of haem, the iron-based substance that gives red blood cells their colour. I realise these names are tricky too, but there are only two of them.

Porphyrin, which is responsible for the reddish-brown colours, is generally referred to as porphyrin-IX (the 'IX' refers to an aspect of its chemical structure) to distinguish it from other porphyrins that are so widespread in biological materials they have been referred to as 'pigments for life'.

Biliverdin was what Sorby called 'oocyan' and is responsible for the blue-green colour of eggs (oo = egg, cyan = blue/green). It is a breakdown product of haemoglobin, and is also responsible for the green colour sometimes visible in bruises. It is worth pointing out that it is the mixing together of these two pigments that gives eggs their wonderful tonal quality, which, of course, contributes to their enormous visual appeal as natural works of art."

-Tim Birkhead's The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg (2016)

Σφιγξ said...

https://schabrieres.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/robert-graves-etre-poetes/

https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/les-nuits-de-france-culture/francis-bacon-parler-de-peinture-c-est-impossible

Σφιγξ said...

The small tortoiseshell butterfly larva browse on nettles. Millais would have studied this, in addition to the doubly-refracted rainbow order of "The Blind Girl" (1854-6).

https://butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/small-tortoiseshell

https://books.google.com/books?id=F48rAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Emily+Dickinson%27s+Palette%22+Rebecca+Patterson++Midwest+Quarterly+1964&dq=%22Emily+Dickinson%27s+Palette%22+Rebecca+Patterson++Midwest+Quarterly+1964&hl=en&ppis=_c&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwih5cvDubDnAhWrl3IEHcBMAlkQ6AEwAnoECAUQAg

"By 1862 the mood is changing. The blue buzz of the fly that comes between her dying eye and the lighted window is not ecstatic. Its stumbling uncertainty, which projects the stumbling, failing mind, is the eeriest element in the poem, unless it be the cold blue that portends death (465). Less successful but still interesting is a drowning poem in which the billows toss her up like a ball and make 'Blue faces' in her face (598). An 1863 poem remembers icicles prickling 'blue and cool' on her soul the day she foresaw the loss of her happiness (768). In still another 1863 poem the love, hope, or happiness is a little brig overtaken by blast and sunk in a storm. The poet adds that 'Ocean's Heart' is 'too smooth—too Blue' to break for this little boat. The boat appears to be lover's indifference. An 1864 poem describes the heart as measuring in 'Blue Monotony' like the sea until it is overtaken by the hurricane of suffering (928). Here it may be difficult to determine which condition is preferable. Monotony is rarely attractive, however, and Emily Dickinson appears to prefer storm, even though painful (Patterson, 1964, p. 84).

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Heart_has_narrow_Banks

https://books.google.com/books?id=bVEEHmpU-1wC&pg=PA889&dq=pericardial+window&hl=en&ppis=_c&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFj5HsvrDnAhXqhHIEHZYKDh4Q6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=pericardial%20window&f=false

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdmL835q9To

Σφιγξ said...

Not finding relief in the associations, I am glad that I rarely see that person in my work life. Soon, I will be leaving my workplace, and minimizing the incidence further.

In my experience, the bluster and arrogance displaced to one's subordinates in a surgical specialty is proportionate to advancing age and adverse outcomes. Symptomatic medical management begins with the realistic pessimism that the cases co-occur with accelerating age and comorbidities, with less chance that behaviors will change; so when there is a temporary reprieve, there is the miraculous resiliency of the human spirit. Or throwing everything against the wall, and hoping something will stick. There is cultivation of practice, so I am attracted there.

Σφιγξ said...

The situation may have changed, which may have instituted a hiring freeze at various settings. That the majority of surgery has been rendered non-essential may have saved lives.

I have few unpleasant interactions, now.

Σφιγξ said...

Late entry. Thank you, for reminding me

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=f55f42b98d0538c0&id=F55F42B98D0538C0%212780&authkey=!AM7e84V2uWfMjgk

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rainbows-in-art?fbclid=IwAR19VY_3gDJbCZwsCT1pXaVXv0aj0iTC9pBXsB7w8OhPRZxUEayhvAaLmls

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.psychologies.com/Famille/Relations-familiales/Grands-Parents/Articles-et-Dossiers/Grands-parents-petits-enfants-une-relation-singuliere?fbclid=IwAR1yR9qaDt0_2ps8QhVm1QvsRsa_hKySHYSreX-2Dkx6s-ho8YEE7-YkzBQ#xtor=CS2-6-%5B16-10-2021%5D-%5B12:30%5D-%5BGrands-parents-petits-enfants-une-relation-singuliere%5D

Σφιγξ said...

Certainement ma vie on aurait irrémédiable sans mes grandparents maternels.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abj1008

Σφιγξ said...

"We might try being ourselves, and build for the world that is, instead of for one that is gone" (Wyndham 79).

Σφιγξ said...

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Secret_Perfume_of_Birds.html?id=vPhSEAAAQBAJ#v=onepage&q=The%20Secret%20Perfume%20of%20Birds&f=false

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34180521/

Σφιγξ said...

https://books.google.com/books?id=rPEJOXPoxfIC&pg=PA156&dq=The+Aunt%27s+Story+Patrick+White+%22nettles%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNtpzjk7X3AhVDc98KHfQgB4MQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=The%20Aunt's%20Story%20Patrick%20White%20%22nettles%22&f=false

Σφιγξ said...

"Beside the field she heard the great, sounding depth of the open well, of which the stone lip had sucked moisture from the air. The tower too would have filled with mist, and the intolerable pervasive smell of crushed nettles.

From the spine of the hill Theodora saw the tower. It was strong and solitary and white. But whether its thick walls enclosed, in addition to damp, the smell of nettles, and possibly a dead bird, some personal exhaltation or despair, was as obscure as the alleged moment in which Napoleon split the historical darkness of that part of the coast" (247-8).

Patrick White's The Aunt's Story (1948)

Σφιγξ said...

I would not have guessed a year ago that shipping terms like C.O.D., which is cash on delivery, would be so relevant. This would be the case in a scenario like freight on board (FOB) destination, where the seller assumes liability for the freight until ownership changes hands with the buyer at the destination point, and then shipping costs are due.

Σφιγξ said...

Ethel Rosenberg worked at the National New York Packing and Shipping Company (1932–35).