Black Book

Spanish bullseye: Diana.

NYRB: "Cavafy, a happy practicioner of samizdat..."

Genetic event of apple extends into time by persistence of tree life, or by human grafting culture, or by a rootsucker's taking over from dead or moribund tree.

"Numb as a hake," old downeast language.

1804 1 billion
1927 2 billion
1960 3 billion
1974 4 billion
1987 5 billion
1999 6 billion
2011 7 billion
Julia says it's obvious why no one ever talks about it.

Picking with Jason: springtime snowmelt thrills, ripe autumn's fruit.

The finite Atom infinite
That forms thy circle's centre-dot

Cerebral/spinal/genital matter one continuum.

Peggy on tofu: "It was like chicken but it wasn't chicken it was that other stuff they use."

Columbus card traditionally played as triumph of reasoning cognition over murky phantasms of medieval concept of world; in fact Admiral C. (in name & spirit of dull, blind, protocapitalist prerogatives of the flat world) ruptured stale certainties of boundaried "known" of Europe and precipitated its opening to wonder. (Weschler's book on Museum of Jurassic Technology)

"The pathologists recommend a prebloom schedule involving a tank mix of mancozeb at 3 pounds per acre plus captan-80 at 1.5 to 3 pounds per acre."

Non's fitt to live
But who is fitt to die