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Friday, December 12, 2003


Excerpt from Ruskin's lecture 'Mystery of Life and Its Arts', 1871

And now, returning to the broader question, what these arts and labors of life have to teach us of its mystery, this is the first of their lessons—that the more beautiful the art, the more it is essentially the work of people who feel themselves wrong,—who are striving for the fulfillment of a law, and the grasp of a loveliness, which they have not yet attained, which they feel even farther and farther from attaining, the more they strive for it. And yet, in still deeper sense, it is the work of people who know also that they are right. The very sense of inevitable error from their purpose marks the perfectness of that purpose, and the continued sense of failure arises from the continued opening of the eyes more clearly to all the sacredest laws of truth.





Thursday, December 11, 2003


A FEW TOYS

Egg-shaped tin toy Rabbit
tan and red plastic Anpanman
solid blue rubber Pac Man ghost
Indian Princess in a canoe tin toy
small ceramic bust of Mao Tse Tung
9-inch pink plastic Hedora by Marmit
To a Helluva Guy ivory plastic statuette
Cow playing Accordian rubber infant toy
ceramic pink Dog in cap with real feather
Jerry the Mouse brown rubber squeak toy
yellow hollow plastic Flintstone's Sabrecats
ceramic Stegasaurus with light green glaze
bobble-headed Snowman of composition material
bloody hairy pink rubber Monster Hand doorknob cover
light blue rubber Bear from jungle book soapy container


Wednesday, December 10, 2003


THINGS YOU MIGHT SEE IN TEXAS

buzzards
dead armadillos
horny toad
scissortailed flycatcher
gar
the color beige
big drinking glasses
cowboys
gangster rappers
a possum
a cloud of blackbirds
a road runner
chameleons
fence swifts
perch
bass
western shirts
sticker bushes
sandburrs
bull nettle
jellyfish
deer rifle
shotgun
shotgun shacks
ranchstyle homes
horses
giant fibreglass cow
milk can
cow pie
tractors
a skunk
cat hats
kid on a bike
little dog
barbed wire fence
truck stop
chicken-fried steak
cow bones
rodeo
people chewing tobacco
Dairy Queen
Sonic
power lines
water tower
catfish
churches
country and western dance halls
boot outlet stores
peanut patties
antique store
propane tanks
microwave towers
windmills
windsock
scrub brush
bottom land
ticks
honeysuckle
Indian paintbrush
bluebonnets
fire ants
red ants
scorpion
doodle bugs
heat mirage
dust devil
grasshopper storms
electrical storms
tornado
minnow bucket
gunny sack
long horn cow
brahma bull
black angus cattle under a tree
white crane hanging out with cattle
coyote
water moccasin
poison ivy
prickly pear
sports stadium
waterpark
raccoon tracks
stock pond
grain silo
fertilizer plant
free tea-refills (iced)
four-leaf clover
the middle of nowhere
good clouds


Tuesday, December 09, 2003


COMMON MISSPELLINGS OF PANTER

parker
porter
planter
painter
panther
pantor
porker
panner
pantie


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