Archive for April, 2019

April 30, 2019

“The anterior or front part of your lower leg is comprised of the tibialis anterior, extensor hallucis longus, extensor digitorum longus and peroneous tertius muscles. The tibialis anterior runs along the tibia or shin bone, and is most easily seen when you flex your foot” *

Example showing inversion and eversion of the foot, Abduction and adduction, Flexion and extension

April 29, 2019

……lo.ho.lo……
….ob..yt..ob….
om…..pm…..om
lo…….ou…….lo
1t……..ge……..1t
.n………pC B……….n
e …….bse …….e
..t…..eNol…..t..
….lariela….
……lo.ho.lo……
….ob..yt..ob….
om…..pm…..om
lo…….ou…….lo
1t……..ge……..1t
.n………pC B……….n
e …….bse …….e
..t…..eNol…..t..
….lariela….
……lo.ho.lo……
….ob..yt..ob….
om…..pm…..om
lo…….ou…….lo
1t……..ge……..1t
.n………pC B……….n
e …….bse …….e
..t…..eNol…..t..
….lariela….

James / The Wings of The Dove

April 27, 2019

Just a quick look at the repetitions of “everything” in Wings of the Dove (1, 329 pp.s) vol (2, 439, pp.s), which first caught my eye in a passage from volume one book two part three (“What has he done if no one can name it?” “He has done everything.” “Oh — everything! Everything’s nothing.” “Well then,” said Kate, “he has done some particular thing.) Everything goes on to be mentioned 191 times, and nothing 331. See also.

(In my copy, the first volume is 329 pages while the second is 439. The ratio of the former to the latter is about .75. Thus, if the words below were evenly distributed, you’d expect those also to have .75 ratio between the two volumes. That’s the fourth number, and it’s pretty close. Note that the -thing- number is not quite entirely reliable as it undoubtedly includes in its count –generated by Chrome’s ‘find’ function– words in it like mou-thing and ba-thing. However, if you assume every -thing- is a thing then there are 475 of them, that is, of things, once you subtract the everythings and nothings and somethings and anythings. That means the total of the everythings and nothings and somethings and anythings comes to an even one thousand.

-Thing-: 659/816 …. 1475…… (.8)

Everything: 91 /100……. 191….. (.9)

Nothing: 141 / 190…….. 331….. (.74)

Something: 100 /157….. 257…… (.63)

Anything: 100/ 121….. 221……… (.82)

(great thing) 6/8 ….. 14…….. (.75)

April 27, 2019

In syllogistic lock-step with Mount Everest – which was climbed simply “because it was there” – they are there … simply because… meaning of skyscrapers

Aeschylus being told by Dionysis to write tragedies

April 26, 2019

[English]

Pausanias 1.21.2:

ἔφη δὲ Αἰσχύλος μειράκιον ὢν καθεύδειν ἐν ἀγρῷ φυλάσσων σταφυλάς, καί οἱ Διόνυσον ἐπιστάντα κελεῦσαι τραγῳδίαν ποιεῖν: ὡς δὲ ἦν ἡμέρα— πείθεσθαι γὰρ ἐθέλειν—ῥᾷστα ἤδη πειρώμενος ποιεῖν.

April 26, 2019

la nappe…. “la nappe miroitante se tachait de plaques livides.” (x)

reach of the Obstruction laws.

April 25, 2019

Thought this was interesting from Mueller: that, with respect to obstruction laws, it doesn’t matter whether witness tampering occurs in a public rather than private forum (on Twitter say, instead of in a darkened room):

Third, many of the President’s acts directed at witnesses, including discouragement of cooperation with the government and suggestions of possible future pardons, took place in public view. That circumstance is unusual, but no principle of law excludes public acts from the reach of the Obstruction laws. If the likely effect of public acts is to influence witnesses or alter their testimony, the harm to the justice system’s integrity is the same.

April 24, 2019

Global CO2 Emissions Hit an All-Time High in 2018; is a Hothouse Earth in our Future? Jeff Masters

Stream bed

April 23, 2019

How ‘stream bed‘ might work theatrically. A very short one person one act play maybe with instrumentation (flute, drums) or other exterior effects.

First paragraph: something strange but understandable; second paragraph, something totally strange and incomprehensible; third paragraph: a return to the somewhat comprehensible from the outlandishly strange (so that the tension and release of the audience concerns whether or not this is going to be totally incomprehensible and how long it will last.)

To tell the actor(s): “You’re a voice in your head trying to speak to the you in your head who is capable of speech outside your head. The you who speaks is the audience of this voice in your head.”

To the flute player, the percussionist: “you floutist, you are not the water, you are the floutist walking down the street wondering how water may sound. You, drummer, are not the stone and not sounding like stones, you are not the sound the stone makes when the flute drops fall and plash upon you, you are the experimenter within yourself wondering as to the microscopic sound of stones as you walk down the busy street.”

April 22, 2019

< parch / parchment >

April 20, 2019

I wrapped my tears in an ellum leaf 25
And left them under a stone

[Pound]