I’ve written before of the “nauscopie” of writing but now I want to address another aspect of it the “phase shift”

It will often seem to me, when encountering something I’ve written before and thought good, that it has shifted somewhat to the right or left. The words I used then are precisely the same as those I would use now, but they spatially shifted somehow, are somehow more bunched together than they should be, or have rather drifted to the left, and this somewhat undermines their sense. It is as if I have watched the framework of Meter collapse beneath a poetic line, and without that structure of sense everything will seem irregularly and not fluidly bunched.

Of these situations, I think to myself, that a first time reader in the present day will see exactly what I saw in writing it when I first did; but a person in the present day reading for the second time, or a person in a later time reading for the first time, will see this as not a thing to be read at all: it is a sort of blurry vision, the source of which, however, is not their own eyes, nor a function of a quality of the air, but a problem in the thing they are seeing.

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…… Outback · Civic · Escape
…… ‘Tennis Clinic’ –orange dress-
…..Pathfinder · Durango · Altima
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ἄπονον δ᾽ ἔλαβον χάρμα παῦροί τινες,
ἔργων πρὸ πάντων βιότῳ φάος.

< Olympian 10.22-23, English, Svarlien

Agamemnon, 83-90 [Chorus]:

σὺ δέ, Τυνδάρεω
θύγατερ, βασίλεια Κλυταιμήστρα,
85 τί χρέος; τί νέον; τί δ᾽ ἐπαισθομένη,
τίνος ἀγγελίας
πειθοῖ περίπεμπτα θυοσκεῖς;
πάντων δὲ θεῶν τῶν ἀστυνόμων,
ὑπάτων, χθονίων,
90 τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων τῶν τ᾽ ἀγοραίων,
βωμοὶ δώροισι φλέγονται

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And you, daughter of Tyndareus, queen Klytemnestra, what is the need, what is new, what do you perceive, in persuasion of what reports circulating do you make burnt offerings? The altars of all the gods protecting the city, the most high, the low, those of the heavens and those of the markets, burn with offerings:

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See the suggestive passage in Pythian xi. (478 B.C.) 53: τῶν γὰρ ἀνὰ πόλιν εὑρίσκων τὰ μέσα μάσσονι σὺν | ὄλβῳ τεθαλότα, μέμφομ’ αἶσαν τυαννίδων· | ξυναῖσιδ’ ἀμφ’ ἀρεταῖς τέταμαι, κ.τ.λ.: “in polities I find the middle state crowned with more enduring good; therefore praise I not the despot’s portion; those virtues move my zeal which serve the folk…. (*)

Such a man was as perfect a teller-forth of the honour of the gods, as truly a heaven-born προφήτης, as the temple of Delphi could have found for its service and the more we study Pindar’s poetry, the more we shall read in it the mind of that Delphic religion which, in his time, was still a mighty, if a declining, power. (*)

The mere fact that it’s been written “he folded his hands in his lap” is the evidence that one need never do more than that.

[Athens, google maps]

[1] Cape Sounion (temple to athena, younger, older) Lavrion [map] Patroklos, Attica/ Patroclus of Macedon, Ptolemy II/ Ptolemaic Kingdom Antigonus / Battle of Cos

[2] ἐπίνειον Phaleron Menestheus

[3]”… τοῦτον τὸν Λεωσθένην καὶ τοὺς παῖδας ἔγραψεν Ἀρκεσίλαος.” Arkesilas (Laconian vase painter, but can’t be the same as is mentioned here) Leosthenes Lamia Demos (God of the people) Leochares Conon (Aegospotami) Knidos Caria (Map)

[4] Mounychia (Tourkolimani) ἀπώτερος Colchis Androgeos [are these θεῶν τε ὀνομαζομένων Ἀγνώστων the same as the unknown God of Acts 17:23]** “For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.”

[5] κλύδων, ναυάγιον genetyllides Phocaea — ὄροφος —Mardonius— Alcamenes

[2.1] τοξευθῆναι Pirithous “no one knows anything at all about Hegias” (footnote, Peter Levi), Themiscyra Thermedor / Terme. Antiope. Molpadia.

[2.2] (ἀνιόντων, ἐρείπιον) Thirty Tyrants [so, if the tyrants were 404 BCE Socrates must have been fairly old when he defied them, mid sixties, if he died in his early seventies], Menander

[2.3] Polycrates/ Samos ; πόρρω / ἐπίθημα

[Review of architectural vocabulary: ἐπίθημα… sepulchral figure ; ἀγάλματα , statue to a god… βωμός… stand, a raised platform…ἐπίγραμμα inscription… στοά , roofed collonade… εἰκών, likeness, image]

[2.4] [Kerameikos * / Dipylon Gate τοῖχος δᾷδα Polybotes, Iacchos

[2.5] ἀνάθημα, Mnemosyne, Acratus πηλός, Amphictyon (mythical king of Athens) Icaria, Mount Pentelicus ἐπ᾽ ἐμοῦ … in my time, ἐπὶ Ἰκαρίου … in the days of Ikarus, Eleutherae

[2.6] ἐκδέχομαι

{review of Monarchy in Athens. [0] Actaios (first king of Attica) [1] Kecrops (end of line). [2] Kranaos (“foremost of the Athenians”) [3] Amphyctyon (married to daughter of Kranaos) [4] Erychthonios [no human parents]

[3.1] ἐνιαύσιος / SCIRON Hemera (“Pausanias seems to confuse her with Eos when saying that she carried Cephalus away.”) Cephalus

[3.2] Timotheus (son of Conon),

[3.3] πέραν ἀνήκοος… Melanthus

[3.4] 2nd battle of Mantinea (1st), κατάληψις, πταῖσμα, ἐπίκλησις/ Leochares, Kalamis, Alexicacus, ξόανον

[3.5] θεσμοθέτης, εἰσβολή

[4.1] Eridanos “a river that does not exist anywhere on earth, although it is said to be near the Po” Cassander

[4.2] — [4.3] — [4.4] — [4.5] — [4.6]

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“Today my deepest wish is to go to sleep for six months, if not for ever; it is an admission that life has become almost unendurable and that I must look to pleasure as a waking substitute for sleep. We cannot sleep twenty-four hours a day but we can at least make sleep and pleasure alternate, if once we will admit that, like deep narcotic treatment for nervous breakdown, they are remedies for the very sick. Reality, union with reality, is the true state of the soul when confident and healthy.” Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave.

Sebald in a sense having ressurected the narrative I of Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy — but

story idea of person wandering around housing complex like I have just done–

idea that the mechanism by which “Karl” becomes “K” is Kafka’s diminishing hopes of publication –of career as salvation, of career as even something “distantly out there” and possible–

(because career is not possible, Kafka is “K”)

ought publication to be considered the realm of the perfect or the realm of the good enough– in an absolute sense — if it’s going to be published it has to be good (because it represents oneself, one’s publisher)– if it’s going to be published of course it will merely be ‘good enough’ (almost nothing that’s published is actually much good, in an ‘absolute sense’.)

if it were true that only by reading the original manuscript could you have an ‘authentic reading experience’ what would that imply– which is most true or is it to be thought of as a spectrum: the author’s thought; the author’s manuscript; the author’s published thought [etc.]

Statue: what is interesting about the statue of the woman picking up after her dog is the length and the tautness of the leash between her and her dog; while she crouches the dog is pulling with the maximum strength in another direction. The dog is not portrayed in the statue.

“spectacle” …

“signs without the signified”…

the really big numbers we encounter in modern times: the size of the nat’l debt, the distance to the sun, the age of the earth … whereas in classical times it was “10,000”… (does our capacity to number precede or follow the things we find to number)… we know the Dow Jones goes up or down (and what it’s going up or down roughly may mean to us) but don’t really know what it represents (or how it goes up or down) or why it is thirteen instead of two thousand

(Of the ignition we know to insert and twist the key, of the engine we know it needs oil and gas, but what occurs between them is generally not known.)

(we have faith that a mechanic must know, but what if it were to come to pass that no one really knew how the one related to the other, that we forgot)

(often our “forest of symbols” is one of car or computer parts?) [NO.]

The idea that A.I will essentially be like this: there will be a car, we don’t know to fix, between us and experience, (between us and all of experience, not just our experience of transportation)

“Fraudulence” making a “statue of oneself” (good old neon) awareness of playing the expected role in the given drama or spectacle– the script — (Sommerby’s “script”) — “being oneself” (our android self) — (“being serious” equals building our statue.) android statue (to be a spectacle, whatever it may mean for oneself, is “at least also to distract others from themselves.”)

“Going on 10 years later, the evidence is in: The anti-Keynesian forces have been proved conclusively mistaken on every single argument. Their refusal to pick up what amounted to a multiple-trillion-dollar bill sitting on the sidewalk is the greatest mistake of economic policy analysis since 1929 at least”… The biggest policy mistake of the last decade.

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bavardage… being another much heard word of the 2000’s (though ngrams for chatter, chat shows not quite the surge in usage I’d expect; still, there is a surge.)… “High magic to low puns”: interesting how this word arose at the time not just in the sense of terrorist chatter but in the sense of g-chat, which begins around 2005… Bavardage is scarcely elevated in French ngrams, another surprising result.

………“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
……….They scorn the best I can do to relate them.”

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WLK: * edgewood, ; by Center; 28th Rd (lot) ; WR/ Hill ; Monroe ; Abingdon near tennis courts ; 395 overpass, overpass; seeing onramp; past mailbox near first mail box;

Strides and Jerseys self as cold front Equality perfect lot In which some trivial questions are asked experience of nothing notable footfalls and gumchews walking while hearing car alarm … whether or not you’ve seen a fire engine Bright Red Winter Coat (8) post de luz The firehouse is Creon walking meditation “Cezanne of The Earth”

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