January 23, 2012

SIC TRANSIT EVERYTHING

does forgiveness feel more like forgetting or defeat?

californian is the only handicap

pseudotumor cerebri

Box canyon

identifying marks: scar of left arm

May this be for you the whirligig of time that brings in his revenges.

jams from the orchard in Arlington national cemetery

words are what have no use without their connotation

list of translations better than the originals. goethe saying he preferred the french translation of faust to his original text is the only one that comes to mind. (the godfather movie?)

what kind of marxist are you? chico

surfers who say shall

The Agriculture Department undertook another goose control measure by coating 1,739 eggs with corn oil, which prevents the goslings from developing by depriving their embryos of oxygen.

A night terror, also known as a sleep terror, incubus attack, or pavor nocturnus

patulous - spread out or widely diverging, as of plant leaves or ducts in the body

parsimonious - in a technical context, using the minimum number of assumptions or unsupported logical leaps, e.g. ‘law of parsimony’

The British standard yard and standard pound were both lost in the blaze.

glory hole with a busy signal

Drexel

season of the glitch

SQUELCH CHAMBER

            how terrible finishing under the volcano felt
    my… feelings for the book are still much too plastic and fragile to read anything else about it. even a few paragraphs of the introduction felt like being torn apart. and to read markson in that horrible officious voice measuring out the segments of the book for critical butchery… a knife in my heart.
    ticking conscience
    this typo riddled copy. beautifully correspondent to how a copy of the book ought to appear. the tragicomic cover. a spectral tumbler of scotch held above a blood-red moonscape.

cerements - pl of cerement, waxed cloth used for wrapping a corpse

tell me what you think of yourself

the sense of failure that ticks within every act of completion.

success is not a feeling that can be felt. only failure is a feeling.

Gran Telescopio Canarias

smell of contact cement and fresh laundry