"Life Along the Passaic River"Sunday, July 5, 2009
Why, seeing through the fog, we bird.
"Life Along the Passaic River"
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"Life Along the Passaic River"
"[...]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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What was it you were going to say?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-14/new-york-s-flower-district-is-dying
If this side glance is to point out what about the women in a bind?
My answer is that when social mores applied, and the majority of all births were not to single mothers, then there could be the inhumane and hypocritical overlooking of the life for the convenience and shame of the mother and her family. In any case, what the coathanger earringed throngs are saying that their convenience is worth more than a life, a life which can detect its mother's voice in utero? The age of viability is earlier and summons exreme resource allocation that could feed an orphanage for a year? Nevertheless, we do, because a human life is valuable, and should not be subject to vacuuming and dismemberment as the test case matures in an isolette.
The experiment has failed, giving irrational people the arbitration of sex, life, and death has degenerated society.
What the restrictions are attempting to redress is the consequence-less implications of sex, and that life is not disposable, particularly in view of the waning birth rate. No handmaiden references, please, but it is easier to hand down a symbolic edict from the court for the states to decide than to ban Pornhub? Men are increasingly admitting that porn ruins their response and capacity for relationships.
Just like young women need to be educated about obesity and the predisposition it poses in the partum period, or the implications of STIs on later life fertility or waiting too long to be a mother...One should never have it on her conscience that someone had to die, to maintain the status quo. The adults need to be talking, now.
My brother's second child, a boy, was born 13 June 2022. He spent ten days in the NICU as a late preterm infant. I will see him as much as his first child, maybe five times a year, but I am at peace with that.
Did I mention how much I like televised autopsies? "Here is the herniation into the foramen magnum" "The absence of tablets in the stomach contents.."
Atticus is very cute. His development is hampered by his stay-at-home mother on methadone. She is doing better, and I do not judge her for that, but her maintenance therapy slurs her focus. Keith is off all drugs. He does not even drink coffee.
I criticize the safety net that enables illegitimacy. If a woman had to support and raise a child without support from anyone; not the father; not the government, there would be fewer illegitimate births. There is no going back, but standards must change.
Kevin Samuels made his callers acknowledge this. One must acknowledge that it is gross to be overweight, to be underproductive, to have an internet imprint of online escorting (or procuring those services), to have dependent children with multiple partners, to have a substance use disorder, to have an arrogant attitude, to contemplate vacuum aspirating your baby's brain...
Abortion aside; the apparatus that keeps people from living with the consequences of their actions perpetuates the social decline.
My books from the library this morning :
Water, Water by Billy Collins (2024) -
"Turning the Pages of History of Art the Morning After an Argument" Page 29- John Constable 1821 - The haywain's wagon is cooling the iron braces on the wagon wheels and watering the horses? Or is he mired?
"The Monet Conundrum" (54).
Scott Weidensaul's A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (2021) - to finish. I have checked this book out twice with the aim to finish it.
Initially, I was interested in a caption calling Cyprus the black hole for migratory birds with garbage people liming every tree to trap them. The simp government is impotent to the organized crime families that trap, ship or eat a few mouthfuls of songbird.
Steven Johnson's Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer (2021)
Turn to page 97 about the Dutch Manhattan dairy industry that was brought from the island as it accommodated buildings. The cows were fed whisky mash instead of hay, and their barns were later attached to distilleries. The cows were poisoned and their milk killed infants culminating in the swill milk scandals of the 1850s.
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/19006#slide=gs-599714
Paul Thomas Chamberlin's Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II (2025)
Adrian Lister's Mammoths & Mastodons of the Ice Age (2014) - large format pictures of Lyuba (2007), the Ice Baby.
David Levitin's I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine (2024)
Kaffe Fassett in the Studio: Behind the Scenes with a Master Colorist (2021)
I like this work, and my curiosity is piqued because I thought he was German or Scandinavian, but his parents were Americans, who started the restaurant Nepenthe (a type of pitcher plant and a name in Homer's Odyssey) overlooking Big Sur, which hosted Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. I would go today to Big Sur!
Big Sky Montana Resort and Ventana or Treebones Big Sur Resorts are must-visit places.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffe_Fassett#/media/File:Seed_Packet_Quilt.jpg
Phaidon's The Fashion Book (2022) - Max Factor, the cosmetologist, who made the Hollywood look.
https://www.phaidon.com/store/fashion-and-pop-culture/the-fashion-book-9781838665708/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kLw91vkFEs
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