WORK
you fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
—Margaret Atwood
—from Power Politics
WORD(S)
philosophunculist. noun. One who pretends to know things they do not know in order to impress people (possibly AKA: human being). A petty and insignificant philosopher.
“…but you know, or should know, that I am a senior philosophunculist on active duty.”
“Repeat?”
“Haven’t you studied amphigory? Gad, what they teach in schools these days!” (Robert Heinlein)
“Cunningham’s brilliant explication of ‘glassie Essence’ … has been ignored by those whom Robert Burton would call the philosophunculists of the academy as well as by most students of Shakespeare.” (Edward Tayler)
“…the unsettled races of the north, constituting the Chartists, are Scotch philosophunculists and Irish savages, or the children of such.” (Fraser’s Magazine, 1840)
WEB
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Is there a Cult of Originality? I don’t know, but I want to hear Living Colour perform it.
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The Aroma of Books (an infographic).
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In the past week, ►the “Maillard Reaction” (the browning in food that makes pizza and other foods taste so good) has come up four times. What is the universe telling me?
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“Rare, unseen footage of New York City in the 1950s, plus important city events over three decades—rallies, riots, ocean liners, parades, and the World’s Fair are a few highlights” of the New York City Department of Records eclectic YouTube channel.
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On this day in 1967, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin (supposedly?) ►film Bigfoot on a tributary of the Klamath River in California. The footage has since been analyzed almost as much as the Zapruder film and the debate continues. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Assocation maintains a public database of sightings, info on expeditions, publications, documentaries, links to the most scientific (or at least less crazy) “research” and official BFRO gear.
REPRISES/RESPONSES/REJOINDERS/RIPOSTES
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Reader D. found out the hard way that readers “skimming email” can “mistake ‘darkle’ for ‘darkie’ with unfortunate consequences.”
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Reader N. decoded a subject line: “It took me a few days, but I figured out the ‘wooden souls’ subject line [from 10/15/2014]. Cocteau!” — You got it. He wrote: “There are too many souls of wood not to love these wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.”
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