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February 7, 2014

Copper sheathing The copper performed very well in protecting the hull from invasion by worm, and in preventing the growth of weed, for when in contact with water, the copper produced a poisonous film, composed mainly of oxychloride, that deterred these marine creaturesscarf joint

February 5, 2014

voiceless pharyngeal fricative; the ascendancy ; proleptic; florilegium; Born Into This (Bukowski documentary) Francisco de Quevedo. Skylab re-entry. kicky-wicky, Jeff Donnell, “sandy place“, concrete, cement:

Concrete should not be confused with cement, because the term cement refers to the material used to bind the aggregate materials of concrete. Concrete is a combination of a cement and aggregate.

Condign

February 4, 2014

Melville, The Confidence Man (3):

With which exclamations, followed by idle threats against his admonisher, this condign victim to justice hobbles away, as disdaining to hold further argument with such a rabble.

Condign.

February 3, 2014

“My temper was touched before, the wretched boldness of spirit which I had acquired abated, and conscious guilt began to flow in my mind. In short, I began to think, and to think indeed is one real advance from hell to heaven. All that hardened state and temper of soul, which I said so much of before, is but a deprivation of thought; he that is restored to his thinking, is restored to himself.” ~Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe.pinnate ; communards; lustron house ; bunga bunga ; rennet; caravansary ; conurbation ; The Gambia River ; ritornello; Linda Darnell

February 1, 2014

count coup sigmoid Odinism Kahun Papyri

January 31, 2014

dentro de la cotidianidad los pergaminos

January 28, 2014

Afidnes Tyndareus Cephissus Bibliotheca

January 27, 2014

Bight Bight of Bonny Murray Ridge Spanish Guinea

January 25, 2014

soffit Sark Maputo besom

January 24, 2014

jactancy person coracle tannoy

January 21, 2014

cack taw obi stool

January 16, 2014

smutch pelage leg break DLC HIMIjerkwater grison Lester Hunt
Frederick Karl catalectic Richard Ellmann precess (example)

January 7, 2014

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re: rose of washington square/ african american history

January 3, 2014


from a “special features” film I learn that the director of Rose of Washinton Square was more known for being workman-like than for being artistic, yet the end of the film, when one sees suddenly a black arm thrust in front of the Tyrone Power character (and knows the position that man is in and his relation to the Tyrone Power character) brings to mind that the only other time one has seen a black face in the movie is Al Jolson wearing black face –Jolson who has been a mainly adversarial counterpoise to the Tyrone Power character– a poetic touch which indicates one doesn’t know what — but sticks out– or did to me on this occasion of having watched it.

dark mossy massiness

December 30, 2013

a terrific towering palisade of dark mossy massiness

From book 25, section 4 of Pierre. The full passage:

Cunningly masked hitherto, by the green tapestry of the interlacing leaves, a terrific towering palisade of dark mossy massiness confronted you; and trickling with unevaporable moisture, distilled upon you from its beetling brow slow thunder-showers of water-drops, chill as the last dews of death.

“unevaporable”… “slow thundershowers”… “last dews of death”

December 26, 2013

…….. Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity.
…….. When I give, I give myself.

……………… Song of Myself

December 21, 2013

“The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.” (Thoreau, Journals.)

December 18, 2013

“On the contrary, he whose soul expects an eternal happiness, has always present in himself that which is valid in itself, and against which all the petty appears as the petty. He is constantly influenced by an aspiration which does not bring him into conflict with anyone, or with anything earthly, whose possession does not exclude anyone else. That is, he can lose the earthly, and if he loses it in the right way, then its loss will make the difficult easier, so that a camel can go through the eye of a needle; and he will not wish to exclude anyone, if he himself is anxious in the right way.” Kierkegaard, The Expectation of an Eternal Happiness.

children and violence in kill bill vol.I

December 1, 2013

Some instances of children and violence –well, really, young girls and violence– from the first volume of Kill Bill:

  • Black mamba is with child when attacked by Bill and his cohort, and is traumatized (on waking from her coma) to discover her pregnancy has been terminated (though that turns out not to be true.).
  • Black mamba kills Copperhead in front of her daughter (aged four). Children’s toys are prominent outside the home. A school bus appears while the two are fighting.
  • As a child, Cottonmouth watches her parents being murdered, and (still a child) she kills their murderer, who is a pedophile. (This segment is told in the form of a cartoon/ animation, itself perhaps suggesting childhood.)
  • Cottonmouth’s bodyguard is notably young herself, 17 we’re told, and carrying herself still more girlishly — Black Mamba offers her a chance to escape without fighting/ violence. (“Charlie Brown” in these scenes again evokes the cartoon/ the comics.)
  • “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.” The phrase spoken by both Black Mamba and Cottonmouth suggests childhood/ a shared sense of childhood.
  • Black Mamba spares one of the crazy 88’s, who is a young boy. After spanking him with a sword, she sends him home to his mother.

Although the theme is mainly absent from Kill Bill’s 2nd volume, it reappears in the final chapter when The Bride and B.B engage in a mock gun battle and later watch Shogun Assassin. A distinction might be made (as Tarrentino himself appears to do in this youtube) between BB’s engagement with portrayals of violence, “fake violence”, and the girls of Volume 1, who have dealt with the real thing.

November 11, 2013

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