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putterings, 423-422

  I don’t know just where we are now. I’ve sort of lost interest in — Things.   embryo inventions, unfinished models, meantime fine crops of weeds   the “forgettery” he called the stones by name  

puutterings     |     their index     |     these derivations     |     20240427  

#derivation2 #Willametta Preston #Della Thompson Lutes

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6254 . lampblack 90º ccw . 20240425  

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6138 . river navhaz afterimage . 20240401  

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6234 . waste basket glance, 3-ring binder detritus . 20240423  

#holes #negative holes #archive work

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traffic, 4

  Logarithm, This is best Logistic, This (that) is not Mealtime, Very high Meantime, Very low   Obtrition, Yes Fricative, No   Curlypate, Hardly know-s what to do (with) Ornately, & Currencies, Hardly know-s what to think (about) Ornithon, &c.

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ex “Words and Phrases,” The Traffic Telegraph Code for the transmission of telegrams in general business with secrecy and economy (New York: American Code Company, 1905)  

#ampersand #fricatives #obtritions #thinking about ornithons #telegraphic codes #traffic

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6229 . in (clipboard) situ, 180° . 20240421

#scribble

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traffic, 3

  Glimpse, On this Glisten, On time Gloaming, On train arriving (at or in)   Driftland, In advance (of) Alterably, Anything further

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ex “Words and Phrases,” The Traffic Telegraph Code for the transmission of telegrams in general business with secrecy and economy (New York: American Code Company, 1905)  

#telegraphic codes #onsense #traffic

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6220 . in (post-it) situ . 20240420  

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traffic, 2

  Gaelic, Nothing from Gaffhook, Nothing further Gaingiving, Nothing new Gadsteel, Nothing definite   Gainfully, Nothing more can be done Gingerly, On the morning train Gadding, Nothing at all

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#telegraphic codes #traffic

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traffic, 1

  Desireth, High tide-s Desirous, High water-s Desirously, High wind-s Fenland, Low

Dialectics, How little Diallage, How long Dialytic, How many ties Diameter, How many tons of rails

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#telegraphic codes #traffic

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6217 . reading notes . 20240418

My father said the world was just one big irrigation system. High and low — Susan Straight, Mecca (2022) : 34  

#scribble #Susan Straight

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putterings, 421

                                                                                  all ready now                                                                   about the fire with a show of keeping himself occupied                                                         about the table, he came over to                                                 little lamps with steel instruments like knitting-needles. She saw                                         parts of the gliders Humphrey had been puttering with for a long time.                                 Three years, he had once said                         over her make-up box.                 She seemed really confused.         Finally she turned, said, with averted glance “Stop puttering. Come over here.”  

puutterings     |     their index     |     these derivations     |     20240419  

#derivation2 #Samuel Merwin

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putterings, 420-419

                                  not forgetting anything                         all those thin gray years                 hands puttering around in the earth         over test-tubes and crucibles “Why doesn’t he go away and really do something?”  

puutterings     |     their index     |     these derivations     |     20240419  

#derivation2 #Virginia Tracy #Margaret Cameron

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6204 detail of unrest, sea or land or both

occasioned by 1 worn front cover U Michigan/hathitrust copy/scan, Ladies’ Home Journal, vol. 37 (1920) : link, 90ºccw (here for two articles by journalist Lily Lykes Rowe (long story, but involving this)); and 2 insults inflicted by terminal (?) malfunction, Brother HL-2270DW printer; and 3 print-out photographed in poor (lamp) light; and 4 having seen the first of two programs of Margaret Tait’s films.

Orkney seas and gales. skies, birds. garden, isles.  

#unrest #seas #San Gabriels #Margaret Tait #Lily Lykes

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hard to say

  I would fill in the blanks for myself, which is what fiction writing is, isn’t it?   ₁   In poetry, something else happens. Hard to say what it is.   ₂  

1 Christina Henríquez, in Celia McGee, “The Canal Zone of Her Very Heart; Christina Hernríquez’s novel brings to life forgotten people who built the Panama Canal” The New York Times (March 6, 2024) : C2 : link (paywall, but maybe this “gift” link works?) 2 “Film-poem or Poem film : A few notes about film and poetry from Margaret Tait” Margaret Tait, Poems, Stories and Writings (Sarah Neely, ed., 2012) : 166

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The Panama Canal has come up several times, in my putterings and elsewheres. Margaret Tait, a few films shown at HFA : link  

#Christina Henríquez #Margaret Tait #ambivalences #canals #something else #presence let's say

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6181 . inv . 20240410

mistakes in the making of the thing, dead ends. What was supposed to develop, but for some reason didn’t; or vice versa

— Olga Tokarczuk, Flights (Jennifer Croft, trans., 2017) : 17  

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in a sticky matrix

  Fig. 3 (borders re-drawn) Cut surface of apple-twig, showing, at the point marked ×, a quantity of shining liquid ooze. Photos by E. Bruce Levy. at “Fireblight. Nature of the Disease and its Control.” By R. Waters, Plant Pathologist, Biological Laboratory, Wellington. New Zealand Department of Agriculture. Bulletin No. 99. (Reissue, November 1927) U California, bound volume containing nos 99-138 (via google books) : link

epigram from p 7 : link

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had been searching “F. E. Ward” + “illustrated”

Fireblight continues to exist, even to worsen wikipedia : link  

#R. Waters #fireblight #oozes #blossom blight