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Memento Mori
Brillat-Savarin in the translation by M.F.K. Fisher pauses in the description of a turkey hunt to describe walking in the woods: I wandered through it with delight, observing the benefits and the ravages of time, which both creates and destroys, … Continue reading
Chrysanthemum
There is a game issued as “jobware” by Ryan Koopmans called Chrysanthemum (copyright 1993) for play under the classic macintosh system. Ikebana meets Tetris. I hope that Ryan’s talents were picked up by a worthy employer. The game has a … Continue reading
slips
Juxtaposing slips from bookmarkers with messages that seem like responses to unasked questions: The index is a probe Homeopathic method — constant but little doses Almost as if the lapidary prose was meant to tesselate. And so for day 88 … Continue reading
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Almost Alpha
An encyclopedia wolf entry pacified with passives: In spring and summer wolves are solitary or in pairs, in the autumn in families, and in the winter in packs When it sees itself captured its courage and ferocity are forsaken A … Continue reading
Grappling
In the middle, straddling two columns of text, the editors chose one key attention grabbing sentence from a review by Michael Lynch of the film Beautiful Dreamers. Now further in time from 17.04.90 its Globe and Mail appearance it is … Continue reading
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Calendar
Imagine a 6 day week and 60 weeks in a year. All in support of the four day work week. Great for scheduling: shifts in 4, 8 and 12 hours with sufficient down time between. 60 gives five weeks to … Continue reading
Imbrications
Peter Levitt in the preface to Thich Nhat Hahn The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra writes of the importance of bells. With that in mind, when the bell was invited to sound we would put down … Continue reading
Umma
To repair the damage, an invitation for wise investment. Usury extinguished. Retardation delayed. Bonds for reparations. Interest modest. And so for day 79 03.03.2007
Habits
A friend sent a clipping in the mail of a Toronto Star article from the Endnotes section (Back stories, final thoughts, weird findings) D12 (Sunday, February 25, 2007). Christian Cotroneo’s article on Donald Crowdis who at the age of 93 … Continue reading
Fertility
Brillat-Savarin’s first Meditation from The Physiology of Taste provides an outline of six senses. There are the five of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. The six is physical desire and is in the service of procreation. An impish me … Continue reading
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