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Was interested in this exchange between Mcconnel and Manchin, haven’t before seen Manchin in action.

Outside the K-1

the worker exits the store
he is feeling so sore
he’s heading for his pickup’s door
he says to himself he can’t walk any more

in his black bag,
so it’s starting to sag
is a bottle of beer
that leans almost clear
held by one handle
a foot in a sandle
that walks from the door
he is feeling so sore

and puts it in the seat
a significant feat
what with the trash
and the abundance of ash
and the pile of plans
and the mountain of cans

and then off he goes
through parking lot groves
and pavement tahitis
with palm tree graffitis
and permitted zones
among holders of phones
with nice courts of cones
and advertisements for loans
and the pools of construction
amid spools for conduction

until finally he’ll sit
and open what’s in it
and not think of the day
or what it may say,
but sigh with relief
that it was brief.

Referring to Lybia from Strabo’s Geography (English):

ἔστι δ᾽, ὥσπερ οἵ τε ἄλλοι δηλοῦσι καὶ δὴ καὶ Γναῖος Πείσων ἡγεμὼν γενόμενος τῆς χώρας διηγεῖτο ἡμῖν, ἐοικυῖα παρδαλῇ: κατάστικτος γάρ ἐστιν οἰκήσεσι περιεχομέναις ἀνύδρῳ καὶ ἐρήμῳ γῇ.

Came upon these lines, somewhat randomly, from Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, and was curious if “moist cabinets” was as over-the-top an idea in Shakespeare’s time as it seemed to me in mine (Shakespeare was, I think, sometimes kind of over-the-top in his articulations, which I count among his fine points):

the gentle lark, weary of rest,/ From his moist cabinet mounts up on high…

Here is etymology of cabinet –related to cabin, from Latin cavea. (Seems like a lark might well issue from a moist cavea — i.e, usage not over top)

To think about the sounds at work in “his moist cabinet mounts up on high” — moist & mounts — his and high– cabinet and up on.

Wondering if there is name for when words in a poem intermingle visual and auditory rhyming –sometimes attracted to each other by appearance and other times by sound.

Having articulated that I am suddenly unsure what I mean, but am thinking of Marianne Moore’s lists again. For instance, this line:

Bows, arrows, oars, and paddles

Filled with a’s and o’s which seemed to go together visually in a way different from how their sounds combine. Or here:

Indian paint-brushes, bear’s ears and kittentails

How the –ia in “Indian” goes visually with the rhyming –ai‘s of “paint” and “tails”, while the –ear of “bear’s” goes with the —ear of “ears.” And the -i and -en sounds of “kitten” goes with those of “Indian.”

For me it’s these sort of things that are of central interest in the poem.

48. eng.
ἔμβρυα τὰ μὲν ἄρσενα ἐν τοῖσι δεξιοῖσι, τὰ δὲ θήλεα ἐν τοῖσιν ἀριστεροῖσι μᾶλλον.

Tangentially — have been reading Supreme Court Decision Roe v. Wade, which considers the Hippocratic Oath‘s specific prohibition of abortion. The court’s idea about this (relying on the work of a scholar whose name does not now comes to mind) was that the Hippocratic Oath was reflective of a specifically Pythagorean philosophy of life, which was not believed in or adhered to by ancient practitioners of medicine as a whole, and rather adopted by medical ethicists in the middle ages as being consistent with Christian doctrine.

“Entre les pauvretés de la richesse et la richesses de la pauvretés, l’artiste a-t-il jamais balancé?” Balzac, The Shagreen Skin (64).

Ellen Marriage translation: “Hasn’t the artist always kept the balance true between the poverty of riches and the riches of poverty?”

Google Translate translation: “Between the poverty of wealth and the wealth of poverty, has the artist ever swayed?”

hm: Taco predated arrival of Spanish in Americas. Etymology is uncertain, yet may be cognate with french tache and English tack.

Calculated Risk suggesting a “sudden economic stop”:

I just spoke with a tile sub-contractor who mostly does remodels. He was completely booked for the next several months, and all of his jobs have cancelled for the next 8 weeks.

He has a great reputation – and a good network – and he has been busy for years. These cancellations caught him by surprise. He will have to layoff his workers until he finds work.

This story is happening all across the country. This is a sudden stop for the US economy like nothing I’ve ever seen.

Nearing the end of what has been a year long project to memorize Mariane Moore’s An Octopus, I’ve become interested in its several lists, and make note of them in this post. I’ve divided the lists into long and short, although, in terms of items listed, they are about equally as long; the lists I am calling “long” do not have more items, but occur over more lines, being more descriptive of the items.

Short:
— “indigo, pea-green, blue-green, and turquoise”
— “bears, elks, deer, wolves, goats, and ducks”
— “calcium gems (…) alabaster pillars, topaz, tourmaline crystals (…) amethyst quartz”
— “marble (…) jasper (…) agate”
— “black feet, eyes, nose and horns”
— stone from the moraine (…), another marmot, (…) spotted ponies ”
— “birch-trees, ferns, and lily-pads, avalanche lilies, Indian paint-brushes, bear’s ears and kittentails, and (…) chlorophylless fungi”
— “to eagle-traps and snow-shoes, to alpenstocks and other toys…”
— “Bows, arrows, oars, and paddles, for which trees provide the wood,”
— “guns, nets, seines, traps, and explosives, hired vehicles, gambling and intoxicants”
— “rice, prunes, dates, raisins, hardtack, and tomatoes”

Long:
— An octopus […], the fir-trees […], The Rock[…], the larches [….], The Goat’s Mirror *
–The porcupine, The Rat […], Thoughtful Beavers […] Bears [….] The Goat
–Those who have lived in hotels […] The Mountain Guide […] The nine-striped chipmunk […] The Water ouzel […] The white-tailed Ptarmigan […] The Eleven Eagles of the West

(* I find this “list-like”, maybe not quite a list.)

a sharp knife, a bottle cap, a cork, a wrapper for some cheese, a box of crackers, a bottle of soda, a cylindrical plastic carton of hummus, a mug

celebrating 33rd wedding anniversary, reading about Carbon, visiting a liberty ship, thinking of wearing “triple socks” after the failure of “double socks”, attempting to put to use his new non-inflatable basketball. Age of the earth wondered about

Find disagreeable the word butt or buttocks, which latter sounds like cassocks or mattocks –these are “the cowl of the anatomical person” is thought. (Thought is “cowl.”) “Our true person is not in the mind but in our center of balance” is thought also on this date.

The thruster of NASA; those are the balls of my feet! NASA, Hephaistos and Newton are all in adjoining chambers of my feet, my metatarsuses, metatarsi, the “footbutkids”, the bighorned rams, with other friends

The pencil is now almost one inch above the paper. The pencil is now no distance at all from the flat surface of the paper. The pencil is now three inches from the left side of the paper. The pencil is now six inches from the top edge of the paper. The point of the pencil is now a very slight height from the surface of the paper as it moves from word end to sentence end, to punctuation start and end, to word and sentence start. The pencil is now at a great height above the paper. The pencil is now on the table the paper is on (on top of the paper, on top of the table) then suddenly it is on top of the table yet somewhat to the side of the surface of the paper. (It “rolls” from the table to its edge; from the table’s edge to the air; then from that point in the air to a point in the air further down in it, “falling.”)

Now the pencil is three feet from the floor. Now the pencil is ten inches from the floor. Now the start, the point, of the pencil, is two inches from the surface of the floor, while the end, rear, back, of the pencil (eraser of the pencil) is three to four inches from a nearby point on the floor. Now the pencil point is on the floor and the pencil end is nearly on the floor; and now it, too, the pencil end, is there, on the floor, and skips or hops upon impact.

The pencil, composed of points from end to end, in perfect alignment with itself, “rolls” at that time. Then at one point upon the floor, one point along the pencil stops, while all the other pencil points continue rolling, then these too come to a stop. The pencil itself is a line of points, which will drop out through its chief point or “tip”, is a thought conceived at that time. The tip, the “chief point”, allows the other points to escape from its end, from its “mouth”, it’s further conceived, though a little bit later than that. The time of the occurrence of the first conception being a point in time “somewhat to the right” of the time of the occurrence of the second conception, it is thought. (The conception seems to fall “further down” into some not really understood medium of thought, just as the pencil, moment’s before, had fallen “further down” through some basically understood medium of Space, the medium of air, it’s thought at still a third moment in time, a moment occurring “still more to the right” than those of the occurrence of the other two conceptions. It’s thought that just as the conception and pencil could be compared as types of falling objects, so could the paper and the flooring be compared as types of things that objects will fall upon).

The interesting curtailment of speech to be heard, an audible hyphen, when someone forgets your name mid speech.

Thank you, —

One hears the comma, indicating something is to follow, perhaps a name, then one hears the hyphen, though not anything after it, indicating a sudden change of plan for the speaker.

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This happened twice yesterday. In the first instance, the agent was someone who knew my name very well but was occasionally prone to lapses of recall (“Thank you, –” she had said.) In the second instance, it was someone I’d known for a decade at least, but would rarely see more frequently than once or twice a month. “Thank you, –” she had said, — and it was then that it struck me how very different from “thank you.” “thank you, –” would sound.

(Maybe catalexis would be appropriate to compare here.)

“The sophistry that undid me is common to the
majority of men, who deplore their lack of strength
when it is already too late to make use of it. Virtue
is only difficult through our own fault. If we chose
always to be wise we should rarely need to be
virtuous. But inclinations which we could easily
overcome irresistibly attract us. We give in
to slight temptations and minimize the danger.
We fall insensibly into dangerous situations,
from which we could easily have safe-guarded
ourselves, but from which we cannot withdraw
without heroic efforts which appall us. So
finally, as we tumble into the abyss, we
ask God why he has made us so feeble.
But, in spite of ourselves, He replies
through our consciences: ‘I have made
you too feeble to climb out of the
pit, because I made you strong
enough not to fall in.'”
Rousseau, Confessions,
Book II.

Answer is yes according to CDC:

You should restrict contact with pets and other animals while you are sick with COVID-19, just like you would around other people. Although there have not been reports of pets or other animals becoming sick with COVID-19, it is still recommended that people sick with COVID-19 limit contact with animals until more information is known about the virus.

However, they also say:

There is no reason to think that any animals including pets in the United States might be a source of infection with this new coronavirus. To date, CDC has not received any reports of pets or other animals becoming sick with COVID-19. At this time, there is no evidence that companion animals including pets can spread COVID-19. However, since animals can spread other diseases to people, it’s always a good idea to wash your hands after being around animals.

Part II, Chapter 20
(Don Quixote, Ormsby translation)

“He preaches well who lives well,” said Sancho, “and I know no more theology than that.”

“Nor need you,” said Don Quixote, “but I cannot conceive or make out how it is that, since the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, you who are more afraid of a lizard than of God, know so much.”

PARTE II, Capítulos 20

—Bien predica quien bien vive —respondió Sancho—, y yo no sé otras tologías.

—Ni las has menester —dijo don Quijote—. Pero yo no acabo de entender ni alcanzar cómo siendo el principio de la sabiduría el temor de Dios, tú, que temes más a un lagarto que a Él, sabes tanto.

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Eumenides 984-987 (Smyth):

χάρματα δ᾽ ἀντιδιδοῖεν
κοινοφιλεῖ διανοίᾳ,
καὶ στυγεῖν μιᾷ φρενί:
πολλῶν γὰρ τόδ᾽ ἐν βροτοῖς ἄκος.

Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder fixement.

Niether sun nor death may be looked fixedly at. [*]

Dvořák’s transcription of the song of the scarlet tanager (top) and the appearance of the song in the third movement of the quartet.