Gun Goes on Thinking of the Violence Done to Meaning

• I, a Washington Post columnist from a considerable family fortune, discovered impaling a barbed hook in a fish's mouth then tugging it against its will while in great pain and death panic to boat or shore then reverse impaling the fish, barbed-end first ripping sideways through the flesh, rzzzz, is a calming diversion from the noise of the clusterfucked world
• Sideways, this made me make this post but it did not send me sideways
• fuck is wrong with people
• Life in the new sideways isn't sideways ocene
• Brought to you by October, which reminds you it's early July
• On October 1st I'll type *wait for October 2nd* 

• Woke up with Superchunk in head
• A (not mine) bleggalgaze
• The kill-joy speaks
• The coming homelessness and hunger apocalypse in America
• Today in compare and contrast: Pompeo v Biden
• Cotherfucking mops
• Some good news
• Two days late (my fault): Maggie's weekly links
• Larry Eigner, for those of you who do 
• I know nothing about Duckworth other than I do not want to potentially spend the next twelve years of my life with that hideous Debbie Reynold's song in my head
• Two day's late (my fault): { feuilleton }'s weekly links
• Some faculty members wrote a lovely email to a colleague of mine praising the Library's work in general during lockdown and singling out me in particular, I begged the colleague not to share it with the Library's Dean but she did, and the Library's Dean sent me a lovely email thanking me for my work, she cced my boss Bookkeeper, nothing pisses off Bookkeeper more, or gets me doghoused faster, than acknowledgment for the job I do by the people I do it for, so that's my week in work as fine metaphor abounding
• Grid logic

                               

from MY EMILY DICKINSON

Susan Howe

When I love a thing I want it and I try to get it. Abstraction of the particular from the universal is the entrance into evil. Love, a binding force, is both envy and emulation. HE (the Puritan God) is a realm of mystery and will always remain
unknowable, authoritarian, unpredictable. Between revealed will and secret will Love has been torn in two.

     DUALISM: Pythagoras said that all things were divisible into two genera, good and evil; in the genus of good things he classified all perfect things such as light, males, repose, and so forth, whereas in the genus of evil he classified darkness, females, and so forth.
                              (Thomas Aquinas, “On the Power of God,” p. 84)

     Promethean aspiration: To be a woman and a Pythagorean. What is the communal vision of poetry if you are curved, odd, indefinite, irregular, feminine. I go in disguise. Soul under stress, thread of connection broken, fusion of love and
knowledge broken, visionary energy lost, Dickinson means this to be an ugly verse. First I find myself a Slave, next I understand my slavery, finally I re-discover myself at liberty inside the confines of known necessity. Gun goes on thinking of the violence done to meaning. Gun watches herself watching.