#non sequiturs

1849 . 701 mt auburn (detail) . 20211029

“...which the features of a wood undergo at the ingress of the winter months. Angles were taking the place of curves, and reticulations of surfaces...” — Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders (1887)

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damaged in the mails (or skies; detail) announcement of Merrill Gilfillan, Talk across Water (Flood Editions, 2019)

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They saw the world itself as one more in an endless series of plains. ex Gerald Murnane *, The Plains (1982, 2017) : 12

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mothworked paper shade (inverted), June 2018

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in "the betweens" inside and Chinas round the margins       1850   who knows the betweens       1885 it was only the betweens       1888 after all, it is the betweens       1894   and the "betweens" hover near the "ragged edge"       1897 the betweens, why, they often puzzle me.       1901 The two extremes and the "betweens"       1905   grass of any kind. She avoids steeping on it, but walks only... in the betweens, so as to leave no trace of her passage...       1908   the betweens being brilliants of the first quality       1910

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lineage, this afternoon 13 april 2017

...I say nothing at the moment about the male vowel, or male and female consonants, because it will be quite enough for those who have not considered the subject to swallow a female vowel. I postpone also remarks on the relation of this vowel to 100 as a female number, and of yod to 10, because I seek information... Hyde Clarke, "Male and Female Numbers and Letters." Notes and Queries (Fourth Series, Volume Eighth; July-December 1871) : July 5, 1871 Bodleian copy, digitized August 14, 2007 here

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* back matter (details adjoined; 90º cw; autotone minus 30%) William Laister. A Treatise on Ship Draughting : A Plain Statement of the Process of Delineating the Lines of a Vessel on a Floor. San Francisco (1866) Harvard (Cabot Science Library) copy, digitized October 9, 2007 same scan (minus color), at archive.org

passing a true curve through somewhat irregular points     8 a curve too acute to spring a line on     8   in another way of ending : draw a line     9 to suit the outside. the philosophy of     9   the difference between breadths and heights     9   they are, in fact, the same line seen from a different stand-point     9

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epigram ex p 8

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ex meeting notes, 23 February 2017

They also agreed that for some reason even the most delicate sound could suddenly assault one raucously and that silence itself could swell at times to a roar, from which one wanted to take refuge in an actual racket. Peter Handke, The Moravian Night (2008; Krishna Winston, trans., 2016) : 90

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