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operose: busy, industrious, or painstaking.

“In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too, — and at the same time.”

Tristram Shandy

Spider web broken on my forehead. Moving from a greater to a lesser concentration of leaf sounds as I move through a greater then lesser quantity of leaves. Row of commercial trucks and Latin girls gathered around a car with a Student Driver bumper sticker, I try unsuccessfully to nab — once, twice — a fingersized leaf as it descends irregularly to my side. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the follow-up to Robinson Crusoe, which nobody reads, and which I haven’t read, is recalled. In the valley where the morning sun is able to strike, lower your sunglasses, for they are smudged.

Vanity disappears in the presence of death and spirit appears in the absence of vanity, was some of the gibberish I’d written when I thought I was dying — “that part might be alright.” One’s self, a gas giant was more of that blubbering gibberish — “that might be alright too.” (Gas giant, mush giant, something along those lines. There seems only an elusive particle of actual me, I will think, among all this height and skin.) Mouth full of straw: small dog on one side of the fence, wagging; rabbit on the other side of the fence, looking friendlily at small dog; and a second rabbit, similar to the first, but behind it, nibbling with a mouth full of straw. Lost was a cat named Justice, the sign said, about one year old, nice temperament, last seen a few blocks from here. A yellow hydrant, a deflated football, a jangling heavy chain on rear mounted truck hitch now passing. With both cars now out of sight, and with the collision long since averted, I wander into the strong, the very strong scent of burnt rubber, where something had almost happened but didn’t.

I was looking on the Perseus site, reading Strabo, and the word for ‘honey’ I recognized and the word for ‘wheat,’ and the word for ‘pitch’ I didn’t recognize, and clicked on that to find out what it was, and κόκκος I did not recognize, and I clicked on that and found it mean “grain.” And I was delighted reading this passage from Strabo because the syntax was clear to me, what was being said was rather clear, and only here and there was there a vocabulary word with which I was unfamiliar.

Next I was at work, where I have a copy of the Greek New Testament handy, along with one of the Iliad, and opening the former at random I came upon, in the Gospel of Luke, the parable of the mustard seed (this passage too I found myself quite capable of reading) and the word for “seed” used in this parable was the same as the word used as “grain” in Strabo (that had been in the context of exporting goods) κόκκος was being exported, but I didn’t not at first recognize the word. It was only to avoid the effort and time in looking it up, the disruption to my reading that would be incurred if I were to flip to the glossary in the back, that I forced myself to see if could not recall the meaning of the word which, I repeat, seemed to me not at all so familiar, and I did recall it and knew it must “mean” seed in this context, because, after all, I had recognized it as the parable of the mustard seed.

Que se passe-t-il dans ces abîmes reculés? (X)

Hannania: The North Korean model is the only thing that makes sense at this point. Trump will impoverish the nation to increase his own power.

Dolphins on tank. One on the back of the silver tank, one on the side of the silver tank. “As the image of the dolphin is to the silver of the tank, so is a real dolphin to the real sea,” “As the image of the dolphin (an advertisement or logo) is to the gasoline in the tank (a product for sale) so is the real dolphin to the real sea.” (Always passing the BP when the refueling truck is in.) “As the exterior is to the interior of the tank, so is a real dolphin to the real sea.” (I often find, on rereading something of mine that I’ve edited, that I’ve entirely misconstrued and didn’t understand at all the thing I’d believed in need of correction.) “As the image on the exterior is to the contents of the interior so is a real dolphin to the real sea.”

“The gas is within the tank, and the truck, taken entire, is like a dolphin, a dolphin in the atmosphere.” (no) “The tank is the sea: inside it the dolphin of gas and outside it the dolphin of air.” (no) “The driver is the dolphin, and the truck is his mammalian layer of fat.” (correct)

ergodic: of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader’s part to traverse.

Tweet: for all of the years and years and years of people deriding “Econ 101” and ridiculing economists, the past few years have really demonstrated the basic correctness of boring, basic economic concepts

Tweet: Lutnick wants to reshore everything. Bessent wants more fair trade deals. Navarro wants to burn it all down. Elon wants a robust free trade partnership. Which admin official is stating the actual policy?

Tweet: The stock market lost 10% of its value in two days because your Republican member of Congress 100% supports the tariff meltdown. They could stop it at any moment. But they want it to continue.

Tweet: more people need to realize that Congress can end the tariffs at any time.

Tweet: there are in fact policies that hurt big money and normal people at the same time

It is not good to be too free.
It is not good to have all one needs.

Pascal

tweet: One notion US economic suicide should put to rest: The country is not secretly run by Wall Street or corporations or the military-industrial complex. It’s run by the median safe-district high-propensity primary voter. There’s no one else waiting to grab the wheel.

desiderate — desire, long for.

skelm — a scoundrel, a rogue.

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