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egg timer

ceremonial currency

bridal price at a fraction of the coil

dolphin teeth in circular minutes

Patient rubbing of the shell pieces between two grooved stones gives them their circular shape. Thousands of minute discs go into a tafuliae, or string, which contains 1 0 strands of ... After the shark has carried him ashore, the fisherman must offer a sacrificial pig, ... The three highest priests live in individual tree houses.

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NOT ALL INFINITIES ARE CREATED EQUAL

Waves: Light, Sound, and the nature of Reality

Electron transport chain

Mitosis

pool popping pattern

INCREDIBLE AND INGENIOUS Hidden Rooms AND SECRET Furniture

NEW DIY RABBIT CAGE WITH TUNNEL SYSTEM

Funnel Web spider prop

what passage?

tofu tombstone

eat ur environmeat

perfect environment

rose-tinted trap

self-imposed catch-basin

a typical human body – at least 10 times as many cells in a single individual as there are stars in the Milky Way – only about one in 10 is human, and the remaining 90 percent are microbes.

the sewer sower

potholes and puddles
somebodys poisoned the water hole

 if you enjoy frightening others, you will be reborn as a centipede.

jiggly morning

pushing generator 
for a long distance response

there is a problem with the mirror
and theres no miracle people

you ask a centipede which
leg comes after which

shrugging in the fog and stiffness,
it says you have to imagine it.

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FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman BBC2

Everything’s a Fake

BY FANNY HOWE

Coyote scruff in canyons off Mulholland Drive. Fragrance of sage and rosemary, now it’s spring. At night the mockingbirds ring their warnings of cats coming across the neighborhoods. Like castanets in the palms of a dancer, the palm trees clack. The HOLLYWOOD sign has a white skin of fog across it where erotic canyons hump, moisten, slide, dry up, swell, and shift. They appear impatient—to make such powerful contact with pleasure that they will toss back the entire cover of earth. She walks for days around brown trails, threading sometimes under the low branches of bay and acacia. Bitter flowers will catch her eye: pink and thin honeysuckle, or mock orange. They coat the branches like lace in the back of a mystical store. Other deviant men and women live at the base of these canyons, closer to the city however. Her mouth is often dry, her chest tight, but she is filled to the brim with excess idolatry. It was like a flat mouse—the whole of Los Angeles she could hold in the circle formed by her thumb and forefinger. Tires were planted to stop the flow of mud at her feet. But she could see all the way to Long Beach through a tunnel made in her fist. Her quest for the perfect place was only a symptom of the same infection that was out there, a mild one, but a symptom nonetheless.

Footsteps 

BY FANNY HOWE

I have never arrived

into a new life yet.

Have you?

Do you find the squeak

of boots on snow

excruciating?

Have you heard people

say, It wasn’t me,

when they accomplished

a great feat?

I have, often.

But rarely.

                        •

     

Possibility

is one of the elements.

It keeps things going.

The ferry

with its ratty engine

and exactitude at chugging

into blocks and chains.

Returning as ever

to mother’s house

under a salty rain.

Slave up, slave down.

diggn for worms

gummy worm lures

 wafting from underneath chinese groccery store 

is smell of gummy worm lures from dads tackle box

they want to dance still

orca speech

observation tower nearby shamus breeching under clouds making quick circles

History and Etymology for vatic

Latin vātēs, vātis "prophet, seer" (akin to Gaulish—Greek spelling—ouā́ teis "those performing sacred rites," Old Irish fáith "seer, prophet," fáth "prophecy, prophetic wisdom," Welsh gwawd "song of praise, satire"; Gothic wods "possessed," Old English wōd "raging, senseless," Old Norse óðr "frantic, furious," all going back to Germanic *wōd-; Old High German wuot "rage, frenzy," going back to Germanic *wōdi-; Old English wōth "sound, noise, voice, song," Old Norse óðr "mind, sense, song, poetry," both going back to Germanic *wōþa-) + -IC entry 1

tossing her head in the air

MOYRA DAVEY

 — Ultimately I probably write to forget, to vacate certain things from the psyche. But also to connect, and to play. That was the counsel of a very wise poet/writer friend, and it’s the thing I always try not to forget.

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 I've always hoped to put over things as directly and rawly as I possibly can, and perhaps, if a thing comes across directly, people feel that that is horrific. Because, if you say something very directly to somebody, they're sometimes offended, although it is a fact. Because people tend to be offended by facts, or what used to be called truth[...]
 You could say that a scream is a horrific image; in fact, I wanted to paint the scream more than the horror. I think, if I had really thought about what causes somebody to scream, it would have made the scream that I tried to paint more successful. Because I should in a sense have been more conscious of the horror that produced the scream. In fact they were too abstract.... I think that they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way. Why, after the great artists, do people ever try to do anything again? Only because, from generation to generation, through what the great artists have done, the instincts change. And, as the instincts change, so there comes a renewal of the feeling of how can I remake this thing once again more clearly, more exactly, more violently. You see, I believe that art is recording. I think it's reporting. And I think that in abstract art, as there's no report, there's nothing other than the aesthetic of the painter and his few sensations. There's never any tension in it.
--Francis Bacon

Token Resistance

John Ashbery

As one turns to one in a dream
smiling like a bell that has just
stopped tolling, hold out a book
and speaks: “All the vulgarity

of time, from the Stone Age
to our present, with its noodle parlors
and token resistance, is as a life
to the life that is given you. Wear it,”

so must one descend from checkered heights
that are our friends, needlessly
rehearsing what we will say
as a common light bathes us,

a common fiction reverberates as we pass
to the celebration. Originally
we weren’t going to leave home. But made bold
somehow by the rain we put our best foot forward.

Now it’s years after that. It
isn’t possible to be young anymore.
Yet the tree treats me like a brute friend;
my own shoes have scarred the walk I’ve taken.

Mutability ["We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon"]

BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

                                         I.

We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;

    How restlessly they speed and gleam and quiver,

Streaking the darkness radiantly! yet soon

Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:—

                                         II.

Or like forgotten lyres whose dissonant strings

    Give various response to each varying blast,

To whose frail frame no second motion brings

    One mood or modulation like the last.

                                        III.

We rest—a dream  has power to poison sleep;

    We rise—one wandering thought pollutes the day;

We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep,

Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:—

                                       IV.

It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow,

    The path of its departure still is free;

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;

    Nought may endure but Mutability.

what matters?

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
--MLK

half real, half imaginary, with boundaries nowhere

the soft hunt

Reconstructing a lost code for a humanist audience
undermeanings and undersongs
signals of myths, signals of symbols

"we are dealing with a semilogical code for expressing intention in consecrated language"

"the remains of antiquity in the Renaissance often crystallize into a coded visual language deployed as part of a works inventive processes: Images of transformation in the 16th century often stand as concentrated miniatures speaking their own language and epitomizing whole metaphoric stories."
Leonard Barkan

Nature’s Work of Art: The Human Body as Image of the World.

 By Leonard Barkan

ornaments of time perception that influence the present deed

the dramatists secret comment

Boccaccio-- to mix fable with discourse

Achille Bocchi's emblem

Cum

virtute alma consentit

vera

voluptas"

Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point, use special devices or both to view a recognizable image. 

we are all suspended, 



with a bit of wiggle room.

very tiny—very tiny, content

 "I" 

centering of superfluous power

"That from which a thing has been made in a natural way, by that same thing it must return to a dissolved state into its own nature. Everything has to be dissolved and reduced into that form from which is arose." (Anton Joseph Kirchweger, 1728)
‘Matter’ has to be stripped of its superfluities in order to arrive at the center, which contains all the power of ‘the mixture’. The seed is the essence and contains all the essential powers of the body. One has to go to the center of his problems, to the center of his emotions, to the center of himself. There is the power of transformation.

The Chain of Being: As long as each being knew its place and did its destined duty for the rest of the Chain, all would be well.

The scholars E. M. W. Tillyard and A. O. Lovejoy argued that the medieval and Renaissance world inherited a special worldview, the idea of a hierarchical universe ordained by God. "The Chain of Being" describes this medieval and Renaissance structure as an interconnected web of greater and lesser links. Each link in the Chain was an individual species of being, creature, or object. Those links higher on the Chain possessed greater intellect, mobility, and capability than those lower on the Chain. Accordingly, the higher links had more authority over the lower. For instance, plants only had authority and ability to rule over minerals. Being superior in quality to inert rock and soil, the plants had divine sanction to draw sustenance from them, and grow upon them, while the minerals and soil supported them. Animals--higher on the Chain of Being--were thought to have natural authority over both inanimate plants and minerals. For instance, horses could trample the rocks and earth; they could also eat plants. Humans in turn were thought to possess greater attributes than other animals, and could rule over the rest of the natural world, uprooting weeds and planting gardens, digging up metals and shaping them into tools, and so on. Likewise, spiritual beings like angels and God had greater ability than man, and could rule over and control humanity as well as the rest of the animals and the inanimate world.

The unifying principle holding the Chain together was either (1) rational order, as suggested in earlier classical literature like passages in Ovid's Metamorphoses, and (2) divine love, as evidenced in later Enlightenment writings like Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man. Every being in creation was thought to have its place within this Chain, which entailed a certain degree of authority and a certain degree of responsibility to the rest of the Chain. As long as each being knew its place and did its destined duty for the rest of the Chain, all would be well.

axe to grind

Lecto Divinia

words veiled by ornament, the page encircles a word, earth creatures embellished letter

the Master of the Apocalypse Rose

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  a tree must also contain tiny pieces of sharks, moons, and grains of sand 

one object can be transformed into another, since each thing already contains all other things

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AX ANALECTA

Ancient Ritual Stone Ax dated China's Liangzhu Culture 3-3

According to scientists this ax is more than 2000 years old. Probably this ax was used by Scythian priests to offer sacrifices. It was found by treasure hunters in the mountains of the Crimea, later the same ax was found in the Caucasus.