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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.

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

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.

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

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.”

< parch / parchment >

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

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Preferred participants of this blog: retired people. People who are retired because they have finished their working life. People who are retired in the sense they wish they were retired. People who are retired in their nature, who are perpetually in retirement. People who are retiring in their nature (which is something only slightly different).

Other preferred participants: young people. Young people who are anxious to attain to the better elements of the old people. Young people who are patient with others of all types. All young people. (Anybody young or old is hereby admitted and preferred.)

Other preferred participants: teachers who are students, students who are teachers, long-winded talkers who, after a painful period of conversion, are now “the world’s greatest listeners”, who won’t say a word, and such like.

Other preferred participants: everyone. (Everyone is hereby admitted).

Preferred activities: polite civil dispassionate discourse (policy preferred over politics, and “what’s truly enjoyed” over pop or high culture); solid jokes, involuntary poems –sincerity/ logic/ mockery / wit– comments that reflect an earnest wish for the improvement of mankind, for the dismantlement of its delusiveness; for the improvement of the individual before one; for the improvement of the group of which one is a part; — anything effusively positive or constructively negative is hereby preferred. Anything — Your personal best, is hereby preferred.

Seeing a character who falls on the floor or who is knocked against a wall described as having been struck by the wall or floor in Hammett’s work a couple times, my ears perked up when I saw it in Faulkner’s Pylon too, knowing he and Hammett to have been friendly. But probably it is not so uncommon to express things like that. Pylon (originally published 1935) page 103:

“Yes!” he cried. “Yes!” flinging himself backward and crossing his arms before his face at the same time; at first he did not even realize that it was only the floor which struck him until he lay prone again, his arms above his face and head and looking between them at the feet of the parachute jumper who had not moved.

Refreshing or otherwise enhancing my understanding of the difference here, seems that with inevitable the suggestion is you can’t get out of the way of it, of something impending, while with ineluctable (eluctor) you can’t get yourself out of it, out of a situation you’re already in the midst of. (Ngrams shows ineluctable to be not very frequently used relatively.)

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An ancient four-legged whale with hooves has been discovered…

such is my desire to have superhands I can go on for paragraphs and paragraphs in this manner …. SUPERHANDS

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how would Henry Fielding view modernism — (Fielding making a History while modernism strives to recreate a moment, maybe a moment of history, maybe the interstices or glue of historical of events, the “nonhistorical historical” or ordinary)– (History the upholstery while the ordinary is the joinery) (the orinary is the joinirary) perhaps easier to see Love over the course of a lifetime (or a story) than over the course of a day ?(or over the fragment of a story?– ordinary “dark matter” of history/ “dark matter” of space, the utterly utterly unremarkable about it

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ἐν ᾧ νοσήματι ὕπνος πόνον ποιέει, θανάσιμον: ἢν δὲ ὕπνος ὠφελέῃ, οὐ θανάσιμον.

ὠφελέῃ… helps, assists

fâcheuses. “Les plus fâcheuses circonstances vous ont mis en présence d’un homme qui a rompu avec l’humanité. Vous êtes venu troubler mon existence” …

it is an unthinkable burden to put on my shoulders, to demand that I be as alert as I am, as fresh as one must be, while one’s insides, neglected by sleep, lay coiled within one like a tossed aside dirty shirt. …

A boor and a timeserver in life, but never a boor in his music… Strauss

Melville, the Encantadas, (sketch nine):

Brooding among the ruins of his hut, and the desolate clinkers and extinct volcanoes of this outcast isle, the insulted misanthrope now meditates a signal revenge upon humanity, but conceals his purposes.

Clinker.

Even after the enslaved people on whom their wealth was built were freed, Southern elites passed their advantages to their children through personal networks and social capital.… POST