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Category: language

  • AG2022_2110374a

    AG2022_2110374a

    a gift [with] which you can make to posterity

    [and] so a flower is also a promise.

  • this and its lived consequence

    art is one of the primary human activities, and that it can succeed in articulating not just the imposed or constitutive social or intellectual system , but at once this and an experience of it, its lived consequence , in ways very close to many other kinds of active response, in new social activity and in what we know as personal life, but of course often more accessibly, just because it is specifically formed and because when it is made it is in its own way complete, even autonomous, and being the kind of work it is can be transmitted and communicated beyond its original situation and circumstances.

    Raymond Williams, CULTURE AND MATERIALISM
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  • St. James Infirmary Blues

    She’s stretched out on a long, white table
    She’s so sweet, so cold, so fair

    Let her go, let her go, oh bless her
    Wherever she may be

    Song of uncertain origin wrapped around a detective story (via True Detective Season 3).

  • Constructing a Regular Pentagon with Ruler and Compass

    A step-by-step ruler and compass construction of a regular pentagon. The construction is due to H. W. Richmond, “A Construction for a Regular Polygon of Seventeen Sides,” Quart. J. Pure Appl. Math., 26, 1893 pp. 206–207.

    A regular pentagon is a five-sided polygon with sides of equal length and interior angles of 108° (3?/5 rad). Because 5 is a Fermat prime, you can construct a regular pentagon using only a straightedge and compass.

  • maneuver in this dreary world

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    Through here, we’ll maneuver “to split open [this] dreary world to expose an enchanted one” (T.M.)

  • A more taxing critique

    Black thought might offer a more taxing ecological critique too.

    A Coal Mine for Every Wildfire Can we circumvent politics with direct action? by James Butler

    via Property Will Cost Us the Earth : Direct Action and the Future of the Global Climate Movement, Edited by Jessie Kindig.

  • AG2022_2110297a

    AG2022_2110297a

    … we put That on everything we love

    Related : petaq

    “… une réalité est venue à l’existence” Doris L. Garraway, Callaloo Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter, 2006).

  • Love Potions

    I remembered this short story, more comically but with a pointed criticality.

    No, I’ve never personally used them (never needed to, thank you very much). But I know that every fetish priest in every village sells them. The potions are made according to a recipe passed down from an unidentified ancestor, with a list of ingredients that we mere mortals are not allowed to know. The fetish priests all store their potions in similar-looking white bottles, and charge the same ludicrous fee to those who come to buy them—a goat, a pig, and three hens. But who has that kind of wealth to spare for the sake of love? Do you? I didn’t think so. That is why I’m going to give you invaluable directions on how to obtain a love potion for free and get yourself a romance that will leave your face brighter than the morning sun.

    The Case for and Against Love Potions, Imbolo Mbue, March 15, 2021.
    AG2020-RosesinCA_1110554aa

    The rose is the beloved, the beloved is a destination, and the human lover a little like a bee pursues and celebrates this … at the center of [their] walled garden.

    RS