- Here, before they're stale:
- Massive permafrost thaw!
- Antarctica record high temperatures!
- Gassed-up my car this morning. One benefit of my experiment of driving speed limit is the gas mileage efficiency meter in my Subaru always tells me I'm SUPER! environmentally conscientious!
- I acknowledge: thread is me.
- This.
- Violation.
- March first, struck sure.
- Democrats and the Gospel of Meritocracy.
- Motherfucking Democrats would save Trump's presidency rather than accede to a Sanders presidency. Or at least one of my motherfucking Hillaryite Colleagues screamingly implied to me yesterday when I laughed in HC's face when she called me alt-Left.
- I tried not to mention this, but I swear to Fuck....
- Resources on communication.
- My animality.
- #115.
- Blood Sugar Hex Tragic.
- Eno has an app for you at iTunes.
THOSE VARIOUS SCALPELS
Marianne Moore
Those
various sounds, consistently indistinct, like intermingled echoes
struck from thin glasses successively at random—
the inflection disguised: your hair, the tails of two
fighting-cocks head to head in stone—
like sculptured scimitars repeating the curve of your
ears in reverse order:
your eyes,
flowers of ice and snow
sown by tearing winds on the cordage of disabled ships: your
raised hand
an ambiguous signature: your cheeks, those rosettes
of blood on the stone floors of French châteaux,
with regard to which the guides are so affirmative—
your other hand
a bundle of lances all alike, partly hid by emeralds from Persia
and the fractional magnificence of Florentine
goldwork—a collection of little objects—
sapphires set with emeralds, and pearls with a moonstone, made fine
with enamel in gray, yellow, and dragonfly blue;
a lemon, a pear
and three bunches of grapes, tied with silver: your dress, a magnificent square
cathedral tower of uniform
and at the same time diverse appearance—a
species of vertical vineyard, rustling in the storm
of conventional opinion—are they weapons or scalpels?
Whetted to brilliance
by the hard majesty of that sophistication which is superior to opportunity,
these things are rich instruments with which to experiment.
But why dissect destiny with instruments
more highly specialized than the components of destiny
itself?
