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Crossing the intersection, fourth of the five four-way stops, fifth of the eight five-way intersections. Discipline, patience, habit, fear, inhibition, inanition, rut, Francis, ghosts, Convenience, lack of a path, “hiding and creeping” (what is the relation of the 8-fold path to the fifth of the eight-way intersections?) (none) what of the four noble truths…? (none)

Fragonard, Hill top, climactic broken edge of cement, climax means ladder. STOP. This area needs a replica, either gigantic or life-sized, of the sandaled foot of Aristophanes. STOP. Climax not related to climate etymologically. (It is actually) More pressure on the knees and ankles at this point.

I, Nemo to my Nautilus, the not-me, am fully aware of my descent, yet only partially and crudely aware of what instrumental readings this descent might engender or result in (my mindbeing essentially Benjamin Partridge)

how many leaves did I pass as I thought that? How many leaves did I pass as I thought “Kirk Douglas is excellent in Lust for Life as Van Gogh and is not bad as Ned Land in 20,000 Leagues”?

20,000 Leagues, 1954.

It’s tempting to mention bread and circuses here, except there’s no bread... Michelle Goldberg

Unexpected result. Ngrams: cladistic.

ngrams: hermeneutic

Second Superman movie better than the first, 1980.

ngrams: “heuristic”

ngrams: “epistemics”

An idea about “coincidence” — that it’s meaningless, yet a good sign. The more engaged with life you are, the more you find yourself experiencing coincidence.

Tu quoque, specific kind of ad hominem argument, and useful concept. Example:

Alice: Smoking is associated with chronic health disorders. You shouldn’t smoke.
Bob: But you smoke yourself. So much for your argument!

Bob reasons that because Alice is being hypocritical, her statement about the effects of smoking must be false. But the truth of Alice’s claim has no connection to whether or not she is a hypocrite.

avoir beau French expression, to do something in vain.

“To be is to be the value of a variable,” Willard Quine

Hm. “Glue” and “Gluten” related.

Good round up of Trump’s corruption. AP.

“The Chians are bad; not just this one or that one – they’re all bad, except for Procles; and Procles is a Chian.” (*)

I’m afraid this might be right: “The Boomers were good. It’s the Gen Xers who went crazy.”

Dunnage (thinking of the third definition): personal effects; baggage.

“Two people dead, just so we can live without working, why?” … Gun Crazy

Family “Music In A Dolls House” 1968 vinyl full album.

Hazel Dickens: American bluegrass singer, characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs.

Karoo: “The Karoo formed an almost impenetrable barrier to the interior from Cape Town, and the early adventurers, explorers, hunters, and travelers on the way to the Highveld unanimously denounced it as a frightening place of great heat, great frosts, great floods, and great droughts.”