The Short Days at the End of a Long Life

My brother SeatSix gave me an excellent fountain pen for Giftmas, you can read about it above. Though this: using pencil exclusively the past few months, I physically wrote differently, I didn't notice until I tried writing with the fountain pen. I use pens at work, of course, that's not writing. Pencils flow one way, pens another. Pencil's one maintenance, pen's another. There are tablet implications. I know I wrestle tablet-rules instead of wrestling me. Full-size version here. Yes I'm better at deliberate mistakes than deliberate correct but only half up there were on purpose.

• Dark Age Ahead.
• World War Three (by mistake). 
• The most powerful men in the world.
• A leap in the dark.
• Anti-social epistemology.
• Slop Jockey Agitprop Co.
• Another article by Frances on Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and her book, An Indigenous People's History of the United States.
• Please consider throwing Arthur the coins in your pockets.
• Maggie's links.
• Coetzee, for those of you who do, recommends an author he says you've never heard of. I hadn't heard of him.
• #625.
• Jennifer Copley?
• Jennifer Copley.
• I have tried and failed Voss three times.
• Michael Nesmith is seventy-four today.

 
 
MR TRICKFEATHER'S CATARACTS

became something of a problem as the years went
by. Unable to tell the difference between a friend and
foe, he got in trouble for bruising the visiting
priest with the sharp end of a lemon. No longer
able to read the Bible, Samuel worried about his
soul. He remembered the words of the prophet -
For Who May Abide the Day of His Coming? -
but could not recall the answer. These were the
short days at the end of a long life. He died to the
rumpus of a hurricane tearing pins from the old
zinc roof, the rope around his wrist frayed away to
almost nothing.

   --- Jennifer Copley