"on the planet"

expensive : entailing great expense; very high-priced; costly

So 1% of 4.1 billion is 41 million.
Ah, the sky's no limit.

"The assignment--"Analyze a bad book, play, movie, or television program"--has produced some of the best writing this semester, confirming Parker's observation that these kids were intimidated by excelence. His most popular assignment was "Rewrite the following paragraph as verbosely as possible," and he'd once proposed a Comp course based entirely on mandatory bad writing..."


350 BC Bryaxis


Quaestio Abstrusa's Karma Collection

arbitration and arbitrariness blurred

reality being relative to the vastness of its container

arbitration and arbitrariness come into focus as instinct

realms juxtaposed

"the time it takes to do this" as continuum


i.e., "...to compose this novel in a real/virtual manner. Do you assume this intention needs support from the living?"







background music: ...sounds a blur (in a good way) between Saussure and the debunked Blavatsky, but to no surprise as I have heard the two in the same breathe before.

It was the "post-mortem discourse" that rekindled the vertigo of the mélange. The thought was post-modernism as still life.

But the strange fascination of still life, isn't it also a fiction? Or indeed an ethereal necrophilia?
--The Man without Qualities

The only gesture possible would seem to be stillness, what "in painting is called Stilleben (still life), or in other languages... natura morta (dead nature)."
--ibid

Life is magically arrested in its impermanence: "objects, animals, plants, landscapes and human bodies frozen into stillness by the magic of art," in a sort of "demonical" mystery.
--ibid

The world itseld seems to be suspended in an unending instant, in a landscape like the "sixth day of Creation, when God and the world were still alone, without men"
--ibid


"It is extraordinarily simple, but also very odd," says Ulrich.

"We have found many contrived answers," says Ulrich, "but we have overlooked th simplest: that both may have the intention and the capacity to take everything of which they have experience only as Gleichnis" And "every Gleichnis is ambivalent for the intellect, but for the feeling it is univocal;" and therefore it should be possible to experience "as oneness that which be common estimate is twofold."
"In that instant there occurred to Ulrich the idea of a state of life in which the being here was Gleichnis of the being there, and the impossible experience of being a person with two distinct bodies might lose the thorn of its impossibility."
Gleichnis is never Gleichheit.
--overall Franco Rella





He found Renfrew in a hectic mood, as close to desperation as Lew could recall.
... Lew had the sudden certitude that right now in Göttingen some bilocational Lew was asking Werfner the same question...]
--mirror::rorrim




"magnigicent chaos of the museum"

"Leaving him at home, Mr. and Mrs. Sharples and Rolinda set out on a visit to Miers Fisher who lived in the outskirts of Philadelphia on his estate, which was called 'Eury' or 'Ury' named after the famous place of the Barclay..."




September 10, (1810) in "Ury" outside Philadelphia (home of Miers Fisher) "Mr. S. engaged in drawing Miss Sally's portrait, Rolinda . . . in drawing flowers." September 11, in "Ury," Mr. S. engaged in drawing Miss Lydia." September 12, in "Ury." "Mr. S. made a sketch of the house."