Splanchnic Neurasthenia

Woke
up
this
morning
with
splanchnic
neurasthenia


Albert Abrams
wrote
the
book
on
the
blues

Turns
out
there
is
a
cure for the springtime blues.

Toothpick, Lisbon, & Orcas Islands

A small magazine out of
Seattle from 1973.

This piece "1" is on the cover.

It is attributed to one Ron Silliman.



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Holds up rather well.

One can see the periodicity at work
which will reach fruition in landmark texts
like TJANTING and KETJAK.

Martin Holt's May 1st birthday party in the quarry

one of the burnable sculptures entered in the "sculpture slam"

this one by chris chrichton * as Heraclitus said: "Fire lives the death of air, and air lives the death of fire . . ."

Degrees of Strange in Philipsburg

Random tableau from the old school house in Philipsburg last week.

Who you lookin' at?

"He who fights with monsters should see to it
that he does not become a monster himself. And
when you stare long into an abyss, the abyss
also stares into you." [Nietzsche]

The Laws of Money

are not the same as those pertaining to gravity.

Three depictions of Hell

from a German text (circa 1890) have me thinking of spending some time in Hell.

Oddly it doesn't look all that bad. More like people waiting in an airport.


This guy in the lower right seems to be saying

"By golly, I'm standing in flames!"




These
people
don't seem
to be doing badly
at all. The flames are
higher, but, nobody's hair
has even caught
on fire.
Here, things seem a little more dire.
And at last, one person has buried their
face in their hands.



Hell, Purgatory, Heaven.

It's the original video game.

A little piece of filler

from Alan Moore's new magazine

DODGEM LOGIC

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This mania for puzzles . . . as if the world isn't
always already

riddled with riddles--

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"How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?" [E.M. Forster]

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A game in which . . . to play would be to make up rules . . .

After dinner, we attacked

the old problem of Nominalism versus Realism. Annika has just finished summarizing her stance contra Realism.

Brother John has mumbled something like, I guess we will just agree to disagree, then.