The Dogs in the Trees

p.3

The first sightings of the dogs in the trees ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_frogs

Fall eqinox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_equinox

Pin oak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_oak

greyhound

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound

brindle

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brindle

p. 4

macadam –

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam

a stately oak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak

Precariousness-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resilience_(ecology)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worldly_Philosophers

 

Disarrangement

http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disarrangement

dis-ease

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dis-ease

 

p.5

unavoidable empirical quiddity of a dog in the midst

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiddity

Norway Maples

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_platanoides

Pack of pooches / nine dogs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns

http://wondermark.com/566/

Pomeranians

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomeranians

chihuhua

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog)

poodle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poodle

pekingnese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekinese

cur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cur

purebred

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purebred

 

p.6

What is to be done about the dogs in the trees ?

http://metalab.harvard.edu/2012/04/but-it-moves-the-new-aesthetic-emergent-virtual-taste/

p.7

pack instinct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_(canine)

Sibilant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibilant

flock of starlings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlings

flowed a freshet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshet

blue pointed cattledog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cattle_Dog

By degrees, however, such scenes lost their distinctiveness

http://humanmemory2007.wikispaces.com/Distinctiveness+Heuristics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_of_inventiveness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

p.8

wart kneed beech

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech

Pearly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearly

Bough shadow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough_(mythology)

Leaf-litter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_litter

fretwork

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fretwork

 

p. 9

No one could explain how, much less why, they made their way up the trunks into the branches

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty

I was soon reassigned to movie reviews, a happy respite in those wet, dark months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_Cave

Few now will admit to having ever owned a dog, few to having lost one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figurae

archetype

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetype

Lost creatures who once filled the skies and darkened the plains

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_animals_of_North_America

 

The Sovereignties of Invention

p. 10

A smooth black box of Lucite sheen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly(methyl_methacrylate)

Late-technology rubber, like silicone but for the porosity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane

Biomorphic nubs  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomorphic

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nub

This is a tool that goes straight to the heart of the matter –

http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2237

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essence

The need had proceeded the desire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_(philosophy)

 

p.11

Bugging of the mind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugging

Song of the homunculus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus

Gnomically-worded advertisement

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gnomically

Brain-hacking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Hacks

Pry mind from brain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_body_problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

clusterfuck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusterfuck#C

 

p.12

black box

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box

kluges

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kluge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge

extraordinariness

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extraordinary

 

p.13

windrows

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/windrow

free of banality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictability

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/banal

 

p. 14

cranial network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranium

sympathetic field (Penrose)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system

 

p. 15

black glossine

 

p.16

revelation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation

stick of butter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter

p.17

Stream of consciousness itself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness#Stream_of_consciousness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose

disarticulate

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disarticulate

identity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_(philosophy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity_(philosophy)

homeostasis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis

sovereignties of  invention

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida

http://www.theoria.ca/theoria/archives/2006/08/foucault-on-sovereignty.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanence

 

The Gnomon

p. 18

Gnomon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomon

Skittle-eyed

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skittle

Crowdsourcing distributed libraries of emotional solidarity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_library

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_knowledge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_society

 

p. 19

Dirado Z_

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_DiRado

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z

3d printing machines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_printing

A black cube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba

Cantilering

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cantilever

 

p. 20

Transcending the fuzzy aureolar array

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array

quoz

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quoz

Two potted palms

 

The Gnomon had friended her

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friending

#gnomon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag

 

p. 21

It was the kind of buzz I recognized at other conferences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_buzz

A low oscillation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillation

baritone

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baritone

basso

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basso

rattling descant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descant

Whiff of pitch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(music)

There was a pattern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition

Braided oscillation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillation

periodicity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodicity

p.22

Peripheral vision

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_vision

Throng

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throng

p. 23

Tone

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_spheres

Sympathetic vibration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_resonance

It’s calling to us!

 

Compelled by curiosity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity

Residual compulsion

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compulsion

Churning spiral

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/churn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral

p. 24

veneer

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/veneer

illimitable dominion over all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe

 

The Manuscript of Belz

p.25

Belz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belz

The library is collapsing on itself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borges

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renovation

p.26

Whorls of the abjad

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whorl#English

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad

We can’t know its origin with any certainty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknowable

It’s incomplete

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompleteness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_Escher_Bach

p. 27

Lore of the region

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_tradition

Walnut orchards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut

mosque

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque

graffitti of Roman occupiers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_profanity

Illuminations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript

 

p. 29

Let’s have a look at this forgery your friend has brought you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgery

So if this is the fake, I wonder what happened to the original?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_high_castle

http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/aura.htm

p.32

Fadim began the labor thinking that his work need only be reasonably accurate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_forgery

p.33

the new manuscript lay atop the table beside its older twin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin

We can’t firmly substantiate where it’s from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_diaries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland_map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_turin

p.34

It’s the real thing

http:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_slogans//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality

Genuine 15^th century Ottoman manuscript

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genuine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire

Koran

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koran

Koran is an attribute of Allah

http:/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_(philosophy)

For all his attempts to pass a fake as a real thing,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory

 

p.34

Given over to the flames

Ignored by the dogs

p. 36

..found nothing of value

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value

 

Time Capsules

p.37

Reason

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason

Mercury vapor street lamp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_vapor

Pixelation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelation

skein of events

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skein

surging re-uptake of serotonin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuptake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin

cystolic dopamine levels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine

synaptic clefts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_synapse

Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_II_drugs_(US)

p.38

epaulets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaulets

porkpie hat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porkpie_hat

Simon Moyes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(given_name)

http://www.houseofnames.com/moyes-family-crest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_magus

not tingly numb,void-numb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel

Caterpillaring

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore

p.39

D’ye

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%27ye

Ahab of indolence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahab

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#Ahab

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laziness

Déjà vu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_vu

mottled

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mottled

phase-shift

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_shift#Phase_shift

I’ve learned to trust anything but the fickle essay of my senses

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fickle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume

p.41

Chess Master

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_master

http://www.cynical-c.com/2007/07/26/the-harvard-square-chessmaster/

Ludic ledgermain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledgermain

Pharmacopeia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacopeia

Fixing a possibility

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_foam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_time

 

p. 42

Sixty-four squares

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessboard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64

32 pieces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_pieces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32

 

p. 43

grimy rubber coin purse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_purse

Material conditions flutter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodingers_cat

 

p.44

Opening gambit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_openings

terrible relativity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_relativity

Nothing can be gained without cost

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanstafl

p.45

Boughs of the ash tree

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus_ornus

Some version of me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverses

fork in the road

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_(mythology)

maze of the game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze

Marooned

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maroon

p.46

And there he sits still, pill tipped to his lips

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-9

you stepped away from the game

recession of timeworlds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time

 

Camera Lucida

p.47

betwixt and between

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/betwixt

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/between

p.48

Brook any doubt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubt

p. 49

What a swerve it was

The tides here run like no place else

p. 50

Harvard Classics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics

Blue and Gold Ticknor Novels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ticknor

p. 51

Tanning lotion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunscreen

A frosty pill of beach glass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_glass

A tiny troll doll

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_doll

Black, steel-lipped, scallop shell of leather

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation

Number ‘7’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7

p. 53

Game of solitaire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire

‘ The tide is coming in’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide

p. 56

My mother, meanwhile, each night arranged and rearranged our growing deck of exotica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition

Can’t we put things back together?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love

 

p. 57

Where did you come from little picture?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence

Now I was hoping for an image that might show mother to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother

Flow of cryptic images ceased

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cryptic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_recognition#Recognition

 

For Provisional Descriptions of Superficial Features

 

p. 59 

Provisional descriptions

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/provisional

OGLE

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ogle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_Experiment

Super Earths

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Earth

crepuscular

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crepuscular

anti-radiation field

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation

Sevin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_framework

Vulpes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulpes

Crumbling xenoliths

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenolith

Density probe

http://www.geologging.com/english/products/probes/small_source_density.htm

Exploration agents

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agents

Artfully chosen and groomed-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_astronauts

http://oig.nasa.gov/old/inspections_assessments/061998.html

p. 60

Modulated qualities :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulated

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_(philosophy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities

Neuronal and glandular enhancements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_medicines_and_drugs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_chip

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer

but musing on tenuous connections

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tenous

Click tagging the morphology –

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clicktag

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Frequency_Identification

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomorphology

Search protocols

https://developers.google.com/search-appliance/documentation/46/xml_reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search/Retrieve_via_URL

http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001192.html

http://www.narg-online.com/SAR_protocol.html

p.61

an uncanny tone

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uncanny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny

a notable feature?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/notable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficiality

they’ve got internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aol

observe, record reflect

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/observe

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/record

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reflect

deliquescent

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deliquescent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliquescent#Deliquescence

p.62

“ nearly incromprehensible”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehension_(logic)

http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/postman-informing.html

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Postman

p. 63

(Singularity)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

Ubiquity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipresence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier

everything is a screen in potential

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_potentia

 

transistor radio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio

p. 64

“ you pulled a fast one”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_(Fast_One)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_to_noise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevancy

He was sitting in a chair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair

Blips

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_display

 

This cannot be what you think it is

 

p. 64

Spectroscopy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy

Exobiometry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometry

Wikipedia – oh come on!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

 

p. 65

Botmobs *

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots

 

Nostalgia salons, curiosity cabinets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_cabinet

 

Parsecs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec

p.65

I’m a fox !

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/am

Never seen one of those either.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verification

p. 66

avuncular

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avuncular

Scorpius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpius

 

p.67

red dwarf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf

white dwarf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf

neutron star

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star

black hole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole

probability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability

           

I don’t see how that’s possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-files

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_razor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox

Sevin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox

p. 70

People use to modify these entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy

Someone is making this up and I’m going to unmake it.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unmake

p.71

timestamp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timestamp

fix this entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Editing

p.72

Methane excrudences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane

W ikipedia

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikipedia

trusted

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trust

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(social_sciences)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth

 

I After the Cloudy Doubly Beautifully

p.73

Harvard Widener Library

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widener_Library

Bradbury's firemen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_bradbury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhenheit_451

X-Cage

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1958/12/2/the-x-cage-of-widener-library/

p.74

Walter Benjamin,1946

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

biblioteque Orleans France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France

Zurckgehen?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zur%C3%BCckgeben

fraktur type

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur

W-A-L-D

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wald

WOODLAND

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland

The Work of Art in Age of Mechanical Reproduction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction

p.75

Babelfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Babel_Fish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_fish_(The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)#Babel_fish

Alta Vista

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_Vista

Julian Dibbell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Dibbell

Feed Magazine review of Babelfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_Magazine

http://byliner.com/julian-dibbell/stories/after-babelfish

p. 76

Jonathan Swift  Discourse Concerning the Mechanikal Operation of the Spirit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift

Mysterium Magnum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterium_Magnum

Jacob Boehme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Boehme

Alfred Jarry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jarry

College de Pataphysiqe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_de_%E2%80%99Pataphysique

Jarry's chanson TATANE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanson

http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/tatane

p.78


Benjamin’s Task of the Translator

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12733233/Walter-Benjamin-the-Task-of-Translator


flaneur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaneur

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flaneur

Babel

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Babel

p.79

Goethe's 1789 Schriften

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Goethes_Schriften_8_1789

1983 Slected Poems, Christopher Middleton edited

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Middleton_(poet)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Middleton_(d._1628)

p. 82

Milton's 1633 translation of Psalm 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_1

p. 83

Genesis 1:27

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_Chapter_1

p. 84

William Brenner
Philosophical Investigations

http://books.google.com/books/about/Wittgenstein_s_Philosophical_Investigati.html?id=sIbhXQiPjoMC

Wittgenstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

Mountain View, Ca

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View,_California
p. 85

Stanislaw Lem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Lem

George Bataille

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bataille

The essential purity of this translation speaks for itself.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation

 

Passages

Children of the Volcano

p. 86

Eyjafjallaj

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull

Landnamabok

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landnamabok

1010 AD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1010

Hrafn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrafn

Hilmir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name

Odd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_(name)

Katla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla

p. 93

sward

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sward

orb spiders

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb_spider

Dimpled vitrine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrine

“ his spells were late and his runes were weak”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes#

Whale’s Road

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale-road

Katla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla_(dragon)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla

Odd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_(name)

 

p.87

Odin’s magic, rune magic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune_magic

were-flames

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Were

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/were-

Tinna

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinna_Gunnlaugsd%C3%B3ttir

Neil Ullman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullmann

Minot, South Dakota

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot,_North_Dakota

Schipol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schipol

Whale’s Road

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kennings

 

Darkling Plain

p.88

Plain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain

 

Prairies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairies

Forests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forests

Mesopatamia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopatamia

Syria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria

Judea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea

Dragon’s teeth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_teeth_(fortification)

vitrine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrine

p. 89

black walnut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_walnut

white walnut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_walnut

ash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_(Fraxinus)

elm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm

sugar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar

maple

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple

honey locust

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_locust

Blackberry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry

Linden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden

Hickory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory

Cotton wood

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton-wood

Pecan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecan

Mulberry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry

Buckeye

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckeye_(tree)

Sycamore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore

Wild cherry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_cherry

Box elder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_elder

Sassafrass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassafrass

Persimmon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmon

Blackberries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberries

Ultima thule

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Thule

fields of soybean

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean

fields of corn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn

continental blades of ice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier

flattened grid of black streets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_plan

p.90

August

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August

Merely de rigeur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rigueur

suck and trickle of the paddle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoeing

Mercury vapor lamp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_vapor_lamp

canoe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe

riverbanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riparian_zone

p.91

town

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town

the town

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town

All this making, unmade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology

Steppe upon steppe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe

 

p.92

Cultivated grasses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasses

cattle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle

young growth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grazing

 

p.93

Apocalypse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

It was the end of the world, no one took notice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem

The secret wasn’t even the secret, but only the means of its discovery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalysis

Seminal

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seminal

instantiate

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/instantiate

Why do you keep working the bolt like that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(firearms)

Inflorescence

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inflorescence

 

 the sound makes a kind of color

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_ideas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesia

I see green and happy machines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_elves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_mckenna

apotheosis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis

p. 94

Weapon making

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon

Disease seeding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease

And no one noticed, no one could have known

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknowable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistomology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_unknowns

shotgun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun

And the bullet was through him while its sound still rent the air

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_trauma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound

large caliber shell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliber

stillborn angel of transcendence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillbirth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence

Lime

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_oxide

 

The Unicorn

p. 95

Allen Dwiggins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Addison_Dwiggins

cypress

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress

beeches

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeches

exotic specimens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboretum_de_Gratteloup

spruce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce

sylvan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvan

statues of Grace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_(Christianity)

middling hog

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/middling

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hog

chickadees

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickadees

rhinoceros

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros

carbuncled

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carbuncled

unicorn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn

hooves-which it must be admitted were properly cloven

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloven_hoof

p. 96

obsidian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian

p. 97

Could it be sussing out the vital facts of the entombed..

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/suss

The scientist use special lenses and software and equipment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble

p. 98

nebulizing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulizer

dogwalkers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_walking

fey companion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fey

Viral

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral

p. 99

It’s not because you’re a virgin is it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginity

tablet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet

Self-absorbed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism

p. 100

The world changed, not as much as anyone would have hoped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope

perambulating

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perambulation

p. 101

ice rose again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_ages

billion suns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars

immense black holes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_holes

 

Unbearably close at hand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_4:17

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Matthew

Chapter 12

The World and the Tree

p. 102

before my journey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

hesitated to commit to writing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing

The Tree

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Knowledge_of_Good_and_Evil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tree_of_life_kircher_hebrew.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Knowledge_System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil

Tree is not the world

Tree was merely in the world

No tree at all was to be found

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heideggerian_terminology#Clearing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing-in-itself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairies

 

lichen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen

mosses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosses

mushrooms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushrooms

p. 103

Hissing stones

Altars of memory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory

But the Tree transmuted

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmutation

Cambium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambium

Flying dogs

All but immobile pythons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythons

 

p. 104

Great soaring birds

East to West

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny

hint at skepticism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skepticism

 

Question its infinitude

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitude

nervous energies of the highest order

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_order_(philosophy)

empirical evidence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_evidence

p.105

Gathering fire from the clouds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin

Tether line

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether

I did not fall, but was vaulted upward viciously

p. 106

Utterly black

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black

p. 107

Omphalos mundi

                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos

the limbless land

Origin of the Tree

               http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogony

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_cosmology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_myth

vast shardscape of fabricated towers

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrication

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower

 

Belief-beggarin

                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief

                 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beggar

 

And in all that vastness nothing stirred.

p. 108

Uncanny machines

                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine

Ruined towers

                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_Tower

Figured labyrinth

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth

Rhythmic, breath-like cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathing

p. 109

Lumberyard of the world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber_yard

 

I will tell the uncanny tale of the creation of this and post as a editable dccument soon.

Brian McFarland