#derivation2

[asfaltics]

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  

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#derivation2 #Willametta Preston #Della Thompson Lutes

[asfaltics]

putterings, 343-339

  legenda, you will horizon; arise how cold it is.   another example of a miracle that never gets beyond a new order. the light might show him a crevice,   a narrow limited circle. that’s the worst, surfeit of agendas,   his fool way the way out

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#derivation2 #Mauri de Ascha (Aschheim) #Carl W. Thompson #G. P. Warber #Paul McCorkle #American Lutheran Survey

[asfaltics]

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?”  

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#derivation2 #Virginia Tracy #Margaret Cameron

[asfaltics]

putterings, 346-344

                                    just as good as having gone, as soon.                           nearby. earby rustle                     legato slur               birdsong aeolian pneuma       ticoc casion ally

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#derivation2 #Richard Hunt #Hometown Daily Newspapers #readership study #ornithology #Music Trade Indicator #Russell Goodnow

[asfaltics]

putterings, 324, 323, 319b

  clay and tools and useless words doing nothing — For although he was one of those characters whom one might speak of having “missed his calling,” he was certainly faithful to his mistake. pois nāo?

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#derivation2 #Jean Lyon #L. Sprague de Camp #Ruth Sawyer

[asfaltics]

putterings, 411-407

  but not in the way you may think are really different from and some already   went about seeking more tools — commerçant itinérant en quincaillerie — geiger counter, lobe antenna, la radiesthésie,   stockpiles; file cabinets an appendix of dubious facts, a gooey stew.   An Inquiry into Idleness, painful and troublesome Nobody’s ever read it   without branching into the hinterlands. But that was a different kind of curiosity... who does not fuss not to lose it.   If nothing else, If I were sensible, I would give the whole idea a miss at the bench, getting the work done.  

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#derivation2 #Tara Rodden Robinson #Michèle Burdet #Alfred Bovis #James Kennedy #Lauren Willig #Calvin N. Mooers

[asfaltics]

putterings, 406-405

  the first step on the road to salvation is a job-lot of flagstone, Amazing New Kind of widely read and reflected, you might even say   disconnected facts juggling all words of equal value, a half-acre lot situated on an idea Oh look, a squirrel!  

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#derivation2 #M. C. Williamson #Annie Charnley Eveland #The Nation #The Science of Literature

[asfaltics]

putterings, 401-396

  or useless things, collecting; shooling ₁, on the dot uncertain doing the occasional on automatic   reading the seismograph, the samplers, watching the skies checking to the west to see how close than the rest of us did trying to get somewhere.   Cora brooded; Ruth, Elenda he would have done it from the other end, just put it quietly aside not thoroughly mastered or understood. ₂   Notes & Queries puttering misc., puttering about with little and unimportant things diaries and memo books,   perforated sheets wasting time in China; time well spent the chore reading becomes even so

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1 shooling from Old English sċofl (“shovel”)... To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling to shuffle or shamble to loaf or idle about begging   2 re : gardening, from Jon Schueler (1916-92), on Ray Parker’s paintings; see asfaltics : 1405  

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#derivation2 #American Dialect Society #Kim Stanley Robinson #Ruth Suckow #Dorothy Parker #The Chinese Recorder #Sherman Paul #Jeffrey Walker

[asfaltics]

putterings, 381-378

  champak quamash; quercus shade huge ledgers gardening, instead of, one. purposes, none the less rigorous aspects like empty spaces. smoke A Story of, in which nothing happens then one and half a hurry way  

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#derivation2 #Barbara W. Wllis #Edna Ferber #Edwin H. Stuart #The Investment Dealers' Digest

[asfaltics]

putterings, 377-374

                                                                into the loop, more                                                         more a page in the telephone book                                                   no longer enigmatic to itself                                         staccato slurs, veerings unencumbered                                 or “fiddlesticks” (nonsense)                           raindoop sound,                 regrets, typographic         the unreturning past violin sighs, vaguely elate  

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#derivation2 #Margaret Blennerhassett #Ben Hecht #James M. Keller #Laurence Libin

[asfaltics]

putterings, 370-369

  different from detailists signal noisy, poor precision   no time no doubt   O-rings, contaminants nothing, done gracefully   no wonder no more   check the nebulizer   no better no virtue     see #2 and #3   no method no time  

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#Kim A. Anderson #Grace Dickerson #derivation2

[asfaltics]

putterings, 366-363

                                                                                      a little bit interested in bridge, and wondering little in the way of organization or skill. experiments in detention; shoveling snow   up word the trees had come; new combinations.   a few fish drying, unsettled plants. A little cove ran up here, experiments in “damned if I don’t b’lieve”   It was hard for him to throw things away.  

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#Sherwood Norman #Helen Norman #Susan Glaspell #George Cram Cook #Catherine Plumer Bement #Sol Encel et al #derivation2

[asfaltics]

putterings, 338-334

  and lost there were lost to the world wild missions so many as many do.   on up we wound; by noon I had completed a circle as if it had paper under it state, unhealthy.   What has been the result? Denver, Persia, Cheshire perhaps — Vimedia meadows, Viavi lore.

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#derivation2 #Rachel Capen Schauffler #Rachel Wild Peterson #Dallas Lore Sharp #Edgerton Leigh #James C. Fuller #Sally Brown Fuller #nostrum evil and quackery

[asfaltics]

putterings, 357-356

                  pervaded with tiny dots...         these preliminaries alone took me several hours... eg bare putla saa smaat

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#derivation2 #Rasmus B. Anderson #Gelett Burgess #Elling Eielsen

[asfaltics]

putterings, 355-352

                    too-too-too-too-too slow reading; too puttering we booke beneath the aspen scars all south and encautive, and incompleteness,                     puttering water sounding debris of an exotic kind somewhere in foetic blur of “uncollectedness”                     puttering water paused unbranched, unplaced  

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#derivation2 #Reba G. Mack #Lyle Wendell Redverse Jackson #Joan Murray #Eric Walrond

[asfaltics]

putterings, 279-277

  or a chance word be the seed of an idea, but most often, not   of the theater, the heap of garments, the violet-tinted note, water,   anathematized method idle theories or chimerical clues,   and the wide world in which to forget it all intuitionism; anticipatory shades

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#derivation2 #Louise Closser Hale #Fannie Hurst #Isabel Ostrander #Blanche Colton Williams