Concordances: “Hands” in Winesburg, Ohio (will probably do a cleaner, more involved version of this next year); Plants in Wasps
Quotations: Intelligence is simply a multiplier of stupidity (Proust) ; Two Darknesses (Baldwin); Pen is “torpedo to him” (Johnson) ; Palinurus (Cyril Connolly) ; “perhaps the sexes are more related than we think” (Rilke) ; “Clear as the air” ; Disembodied (Coetzee) ; “those who have an excess of fortune’s goods, strength, wealth, friends, and the like, are not willing to be governed and do not know how to be” (Aristotle) ; only in the world I fill up a place ; “IT” / On the Road
Notes: The “BEINGONAUGHT” ; Dreams are the exercise of biology ; Unprofitable Servants ; ideas ; The Future Of The Novel (something Dan Green said); Bookends of Ikuru ; Swann Rejoices ; Note on “Episode of Hands” ; Fossils, fossilized memories, and “Eternal Return” / Free speech possible without “dialectic”? Evolution of footnotes in fiction? how to explain the surreal as modernist? (Might have better answer to this now.) Ginsberg (as suggested by Today) present at Beckett’s filming of “Film”? brain qua voodoo doll Twain and Hejinian * (Schopenhauer, Proust and so on) ;
French Passages: Fanés (Proust); * ; “Ces savanes de Paris formées par des toit nivelés” “lapin” ; * ; Une Dentelle S’abolit ; “Peu de gens connaissent la mort”
Greek Passages: Strabo: moral excellence of poets ; Pindar, Olympian 7.43-47 “cloud of forgetfulness” ; Libation Bearers, 59-60 “more than god” ; Pindar, Olympian 7.52-53; Strabo 3.1.5 ; Pindar, Pythian 2.79-81 ; Job, II 9-10 ; Pausanias 10.22.3 ; Pindar, Pythia 1.22-24 ; Pindar, Pythia 4 17-18 ; The Libation Bearers, 61-65 ; Phaedo [91ξ–δ] Thucydides 1.2.2
English Vocab: Ferule ; Cosmolined Carborundum; Ticking (n.); Glacis ; Taupe ; Andaman Islands ; Inframince ; Stryper ;
Shapes: thoughts on shapes * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Other: Dream with Sienna Chicken ; I have just conjugated aprender, Shelley Duvall, Shelley Long , Level, Equal, Aqua, Water
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