Lifting text into new context to make a collage that adds up differently by the company its in.
femininity: be responsiveness
phone support has expired
the apple extended plan
can’t be purchased after 5 days
complainers may make valid points
but complaint comes
not about surface happenings —
not saying just to be saying something
— cry, threaten anger, helplessness
with articulacy attached. we’re way past
opportunity’s window when verbal arrives.
blind accommodation might acerbate.
settle? mirror-tone listening, echo?
Feminine vice techniques for MtF:
Do not ‘swallow’ pronouns, articles
or other ‘little words’ at the beginning
or end of sentences.
there need only be one sound.
ripples in every direction denote
the complete story.
Lovelace helped Babbage put his ideas
in writing. She often understood the implications
of his work better than he did, Robinson says.
“Ada recognized that you could actually use numbers
to represent things other than just quantity,” he explains.
“They could represent letters of the alphabet.”
Bechdel Test:
1) at least two women
2. who talk to each other,
3. about something besides a man.
On the Rosenstrasse in 1943, in the center of the century’s greatest cyclone of killing, the violence that could have been visited on protesting German women and on almost 2,000 Jews was neutralized – by a few hundred wives who refused to go home. […] the power they brought to bear […] came first from the essential decision that tens of thousands of them made, to refuse the terms they were offered.
running down like mud
because you fell off your
tricycle?
it becomes self-satirizing.
Christ is simultaneously about to be born, while grieved, while there’s brutality of death and completed act simultaneously. It’s all very Buddhist and postmodern sci-fi.
it wasn’t for me to interfere with that or step between a person and their god. that’s for others.
There’s the DR-70 blood test that screens for 13 different cancers at the same time. It is highly specific and catches cancer long before you would suspect anything was amiss.
Food Styling for Photographers by Linda Bellingham and Jean Ann Bybee covers the styling bases.
“Oh, you’ve been demoted from
Managing Director to Mail Room Clerk?
Well, you should thank your lucky stars that you still have a job.”
Bullshit.
Nobody ever says, “Oh, you got promoted to Managing Director?
Don’t be happy, just think how much happier Irwin is –
he got promoted to CEO!”
The quiet small things must
be given an equal footing
with louder self-important emotional bits
that jostle and demand attention.
I believe that people should be able to share their life
with whoever they want and the role of government
is to administer that contract that they agree to enter into.[…]
we in government don’t determine the quality or validity
of people’s relationships, said Senator Savino
/how-to-stop-doing-stupid-work/
don’t be an obedient thinker
devalue being called “excitable”
between 2 loves, Bella December?
maybe the tube can be a nausea wallop,
behavior being a familiar stranger,
the guest bed grabbed my best beaver
behind, number 8 becomes tribe
a finite size better be a function, be marked
belligerent because, What is the deep-structure
of what is being said?
Or doesn’t add up at all? Or things really can’t help but mean? What if it doesn’t point enough in one direction and suggests too obliquely?
Is this like taking a professional portrait by someone else and making 3 pieces from it. Some faces cut out in squares arranged like mugshots, some faces cut in sweetheart vignette and displayed in lockets and the original new by what is hacked away? Where is credit due?
What need I footnote to attribute from clipping file? So many pestering questions.
It’s a larger chunk variant of over my dead corpus