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More Randomness & Borges

I grabbed up the Non-Fictions again and looked for the first Hogarthian squiggle. This one also added an exclamation mark. Maybe if I keep this up, I'll get around to rereading the whole. This one's from a piece titled "The Creation and P. H. Gosse": I wonder if he knew the ancient sentence that is quoted at the beginning of Rafael Cansinos Assens' Talmudic anthology: "It was only the first night, but a number of centuries had already preceded it."

Walking, Blogging & Randomness (Jorge Luis Borges)

Homes, like Churches, can be carried with you invisibly. Anyway: I walked an old path this morning -- from 2nd St. to the Peninsula and back again -- but not as old as the path I've walked the last two or three weeks (summer is a time when the calendar is truly a fiction). No pics today: everything stood out but not in a take-my-pic way. Still, I wanted to put something up besides my babble. I worked in a somewhat random way (the text was lounging to my left, atop a few other choice texts) and grabbed up Borges' Selected Non-Fictions . Compounding that randomness I flipped through the book and found one of my old Hogarthian lines (something I miss from the old papyrus and vellum days): I chose what that line and its author seemed to be impressed with so many years ago for my blog entry. The non-fiction piece from Borges (should we even stoop to categories for his work) is titled "A Grandiose Manifesto from Breton" and the Borges' quote I squiggled follows on h...

Samuel Beckett, Randomness, and "Possible Lessnesses"

Wanted to generate random coordinates on the Cartesian plane. Apparently a bit more complicated than random positive integers. Anyway, in looking for possibilities I ran across "Possible Lessnesses." Didn't write for my password (you need permission to generate a version of Beckett's short piece, "Lessness"), but maybe I will later. Did drive me to put Rousseau aside for a few and read (reread) "Lessness."