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Alabama: pneumonia

Alaska: schedule

Arizona: tomorrow

Arkansas: chihuahua

California: beautiful

Colorado: tomorrow

Connecticut: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Delaware: hallelujah

Washington, D.C.: ninety

Florida: receipt

Georgia: gray

Hawaii: people

Idaho: quote

Illinois: pneumonia

Indiana: hallelujah

Iowa: vacuum

Kansas: diamond

Kentucky: beautiful

Louisiana: giraffe

Maine: pneumonia

Maryland: special

Massachusetts: license

Michigan: pneumonia

Minnesota: beautiful

Mississippi: nanny

Missouri: maintenance

Montana: surprise

Nebraska: suspicious

Nevada: available

New Hampshire: difficult

New Jersey: twelve

New Mexico: bananas

New York: beautiful

North Carolina: angel

North Dakota: dilemma

Ohio: beautiful

Oklahoma: patient

Oregon: sense

Pennsylvania: sauerkraut

Rhode Island: liar

South Carolina: chihuahua

South Dakota: college

Tennessee: chaos

Texas: maintenance

Utah: disease

Vermont: Europe

Virginia: delicious

Washington: pneumonia

Wisconsin: Wisconsin

Wyoming: priority

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postcard from visby, gotland

naiss

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George Saunders 1995, Tenth of December: Stories, Random House 2013

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Found in translation

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For the price of one shilling, they could stand in front of a wooden bureau, pull a lever, and look behind a panel where six drums, bristling with metal spokes, revolved. At the end of its “grinding,” what it produced was not a numeric computation or a row of fruit symbols, but something quite different: a polished line of Latin poetry.

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giorgio agamben, idea of prose, trans. m. sullivan, s. whitsitt, albany: suny press 1995, 61.

courtesy of monotremes

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m. pawlikowska-jasnorzewska, 1937

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gortoz a ran (fragment)

Gortozet 'm eus, gortozet pell E skeud teñval tourioù gell

E skeud teñval an tourioù glav C'hwi am gwelo 'c'hortoz atav

I was waiting, waiting for a long time In the dark shadow of grey towers

In the dark shadow of rain towers You will see me waiting forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW1EtW5hBXU

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Pierre Albert-Birot, 'Paradis', (poèmes-pancarte 1917, dans "La Lune ou le Livre des poèmes" - éditions Burdy, 1924)

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owls and stupidity

Cornelius (aka "An Owl with Books") was created c. 1625 by members of the Bloemaert family, a well-established Dutch artist clan.

The caption reads, in Dutch, "Wat baet keers off bril, als den Wl niet sienen wil" ("What good could a candle or spectacles do, if the owl doesn't want to see"). The open book to the owl's right is the Bible; the visible text is "Ghij en sult niet dootslaen, Ghij en sult niet stelen" ("Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal"), and the sheet protruding from the closed book which the owl clutches reads "T' is omt profyt" ("It is about profit").*

As noted in the exhaustive monograph Abraham Bloemaert and his Sonds: Paintings and Prints by Marcel Roethlisberger and Marten Jan Bok (Davaco, 1993), p. 444, the proverb in the caption is traditional: "Preferring night to day, the owl cannot see in daylight, hence its popular reputation for stupidity and blindness towards faith. ... Here, it ignores the lesson of the open Bible and blindly clings to the closed book which is about greed. Spectacles stand for foolishness." The owl here is symbolic of stupidity, the precise reverse of its general use as a symbol of wisdom in our own time.

source: http://philobiblos.blogspot.com/2007/05/meet-cornelius.html

... or is it?

"Was heissn Fackeln, Liecht oder Brilln / Wann die Leute nicht sehen wolln". ("What do candles, light or spectacles mean, / When the people do not want to see?")

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Goethe, West-östlicher Divan, 1819, paralipomenon.   

Chwałę więzów tylko ten niech głosi,

kto świadomość wyzwolenia ma.

Kto beztrosko absurdami gra,

absurdalność pewnie i też znosi.

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