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9602, 9603 . 20260724

  and “puttering” over lines     ₁ slackened chain in the puttering current     ₂ drifting in ash; Just a puttering     ₃   Yet he had woven a something of     ₄   Zacyl   /   Weave (see Weft) Altuz   /   and again Koimi   /   made a mess (of it) Zadsu   /   irregularly woven Zadua   /   loosely woven Zaegm   /   unevenly woven Zaehp   /   weaving faults Zaeit   /   weaving twist Jraps   /   worsted list Zaekq   /   what is weave of cloth (see Thread)     ₅   I fumble with the codes.     ₆   Geutu   /   what does failure involve

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sources

1 ex transcript of an interview with poet Emily Skillings, at Third Saturday Poesy Café, September 21, 2019; Presenter : Tom Corrado. p16 / putterings 623 2 ex David Berman, “The New Idea,” in Actual Air : Poems (1999) : 71-73 (73) / putterings 622 3 Robin Robertson, “Feeding the Fire,” in A Painted Field (1997; 1999) : 42 / putterings 625 4 ex Edward H. Read, his “The Book of the Month” review of Harvey O’Higgins’s Distinguished Americans in The Bookman 56:6 (February 1923) : 756-759 (758) / more 5 Max. M. Kay, comp., Kaytex Code. “A Code that can be used for any business, but is particularly useful to Exporters and Importers of Textiles, whether Piece Goods or Yarns.” (Manchester, 1926) 6 Lisa Robertson, Riverwork (2026) : 29 “I felt I was bathing in this textile language...” (p214)

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  If no real solution can square up we touch it for putting a stop to after all be found, A something of a needle match, to mere wet face, and a few days before be soothed. persistent holding, while at Liverlosing an object lesson fall into line again Sowe sing forward Done   be a getting over this obstinacy Of course, turns out the poisons which prevent This Many years ago the Hazel at the gate that a small tin of downfall should do this. Maybe they will come up again on AI at Hazel with the way the C post their claim; enclosing a copy.

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ex OCR cross-column (and other) confusions, involving “Butcher’s Boy Who Became A Trainer,” (“Racing With the Lid Off”) by Larry Lynx; “Whispers from All Corners,” by Tee Em; “The Battle of the ‘P’s’” by Ringsider; “Blackpool Come Back with a Rush” by Long Acre; several advertisements; and sundry race results at The People (Sunday, November 14, 1943) : 7 via archive.org : link

the above from a longer selection at asfaltics 2967.

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  Say what you will, a few words here on texture   ₁ a something of the end of the nineteenth century a taste of our quilts weave, a review of accom song   ₂   a “something” of, thereby, where before it was a no-thing or mere   ₃   smudge   ₁ the exception; the rule.   ₄   a smudge is a smudge.   ₁ a something of a nondescript, more the various toning methods of old   ₄   she dimly saw a something, of strange shape and scarcely   ₅ a something of wrong in it, even.   ₆ Do men who know their power know wherein it consists?   ₇

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sources :

1 “Doubtful Tendencies,” by Horace Mummery, in The British Journal of Photography 46:2058 (October 13, 1899) : 646-648 (paragraphs 4 and 14) / more 2 OCR cross-column misread at Elly Sienkiewicz, Baltimore Beauties and Beyond : Studies in Classic Album Quilt Appliqué (1989) : 4 / more 3 author, title, even date unknown, from snippet ex Meaning and Interpretation : Lectures Delivered Before the Philosophical Union of the University of California (1950) : 152 / more 4 “On Things in General,” by “Free Lance,” in The British Journal of Photography 46:2026 (March 3, 1899) : 132-133 / more 5 Florence Warden, No. 3 The Square (London, 1903) : 83 / more 6 William H. Hotchkiss, “Bankruptcy and Preferences a la Mode,” in The Rand McNally Bankers’ Monthly 22:4 (Chicago, October 1901) : 349-353 (351) / more 7 [Emily Jolly (1834-1917)], Entanglements : A Romance, Vol. I (of two); (London, 1862) : 123 / rather more

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9531 . distant battles . 20260705

9501 clearing a room, ancient loessian surfaces, uniqlo substrate 20260701

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9497 various, found pieces of iron, ceramic book (Tetsuya Kinouchi ca 1995) oil infused piece of Signal Hill (California) obscure tool* (Meredith Morten ca 2011) 3-holed brick, & a brickbat three birds, one Gromit nuts, bolts

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  evidently once a Something of a Somebody, very calmly Too much all-aloney on the prairie — mad.   In some ways the prairie was a Sargasso Sea, where wrecks lay drowned forever.   The theory of relativity reaches far — water can become a passion.

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ex “Bad Lands” — “The Story of a Brush with Death” (on first page), and/but “A story of love in the desert” (at ToC) — by Henry Wallace Phillips, pictures by Frank Hoffman, in Liberty 6:2 (January 19, 1929) : 66-68, 71-74 more : link

9470, and two “Familiar Phrases,” ex Willard B. Bottome, in collaboration with William F. Smart, The Stenographic Expert for Isaac Pitman Shorthand Writers (1910; new and enlarged edition, 1914) : 59-75 NYPL copy/scan (via hathitrust) : 62

more “Conflicting Words,” from Willard B. Bottome, in collaboration with William F. Smart, The Stenographic Expert for Isaac Pitman Shorthand Writers (1910; new and enlarged edition, 1914) : 37-46 NYPL copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link

it was something to do with “needles” (still in progress), that led here, initially to “endless needless needles.”

isolated terms, printed out, photographed in indifferent light.