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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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n. a wistful omen of the first sign of autumn—a subtle coolness in the shadows, a rustling of dead leaves abandoned on the sidewalk, or a long skein of geese sweeping over your head like the second hand of a clock.
n. a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if no time had passed since you last saw each other.
Zuni Fetishes - Frank Hamilton Cushing
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Another first person anthropology, basically confirming everything I read in Bruhl-Levy. Not a bad read, short, more noteworthy for the author than the book, though.
White Noise & A Catastrophic Event
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I mean, barely a month out on Netflix and then there's the train derailment in Ohio. And - while the book is some 40 years old (??), the movie foreshadows the - quite literal - Catastrophic Event - in Ohio - and not only are the parallels uncanny extras from the movie were actually evacuated from their homes for this. Life imitating art?
Since when - as the news has veered away from the shooting down of garbage bags, weather balloons, it's now ALL train derailments.
Sadly, all of this has been building for quite a while now and can't be in the least bit seen as a surprise, what is surprising is the inadequacy of the response and the dearth of good advice/damage control at ground level. Also extraordinarily well predicted...
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