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Use any materials therein without permission and risk civil liability as applicable under your countries copyright laws.http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)Blogger316125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-5009480221841124992Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:28:00 +00002026-03-29T14:28:11.868-04:00Landscape painting (Inspired by Bob Ross)<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXGVzxlohpur48quaLKKoj_B5RHBQljVmKcHu90xbpv2PJ2kKncUfeAx7qS70gPb-e0357OrVg8M_DPO5z1CdWRKnkmWz-4U7WjfdRHPQOoDc4u1Jk18qBTlCvJQhuPOccTaWxJreHvFDxBqevT7djVPo5RVcpDRULNykDXMv00fKtt6SlnUHOLQ/s1278/Waterfall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1278" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXGVzxlohpur48quaLKKoj_B5RHBQljVmKcHu90xbpv2PJ2kKncUfeAx7qS70gPb-e0357OrVg8M_DPO5z1CdWRKnkmWz-4U7WjfdRHPQOoDc4u1Jk18qBTlCvJQhuPOccTaWxJreHvFDxBqevT7djVPo5RVcpDRULNykDXMv00fKtt6SlnUHOLQ/w400-h297/Waterfall.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2026/03/landscape-painting-inspired-by-bob-ross.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-365363710782961045Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:56:00 +00002026-02-28T11:56:50.429-05:00poetry; art; drawing; Calais; ruins; WorldWarIIThe philosophy of acoustic reverberation<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> </p><p> In the dunes the bullets fly,<br /> and a bunker’s grease pans are empty. <br /> It’s the loose straw where he’s lain<br /> an effigy for the soul’s stain,<br /> set on fire in town square,<br /> what strange verse is this<br /> contained in this yell to give the voiceless<br /> a trumpet to their suffering,<br /> Jericho, so ancient, so present, the lust<br /> for mere choice,<br /> broadcast topics and a house is built.<br /> <br /> Out of meaning, the lego sets<br /> with the lasers. Sure the war is always on.<br /> A generation of men must be<br /> sacrificed for the next, you see<br /> this is the way of the world <br /> as it was told to me. <br /> <br /> If only speakers had an eschatology,<br /> but I suppose this is the philosophy<br /> of reverberation.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFz4mPVxYIw-_eFLgpE1LRoQuhyphenhyphenFWDNlDX_JTGiysyIt7357gyDgD8tPljeGU2h_o4Rcem0Pyr5O-5m-3P-PPqCCuavn0uWgW7NosDReLmox5RFzMsyThB262CrZtAxKgo9eEQ3Nr1cN9qqEDg02Gr7Tx4vkJdqduts_dYjrxEdmHPE1kkyWyWw/s3176/Antlers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3176" data-original-width="2306" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFz4mPVxYIw-_eFLgpE1LRoQuhyphenhyphenFWDNlDX_JTGiysyIt7357gyDgD8tPljeGU2h_o4Rcem0Pyr5O-5m-3P-PPqCCuavn0uWgW7NosDReLmox5RFzMsyThB262CrZtAxKgo9eEQ3Nr1cN9qqEDg02Gr7Tx4vkJdqduts_dYjrxEdmHPE1kkyWyWw/w290-h400/Antlers.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-philosophy-of-acoustic-reverberation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-6421676855464911813Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:43:00 +00002026-02-24T16:43:30.303-05:00drawing; doodle; symmetry; form; artRiver Face (Drawing by yours truly)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjYgZJaRhrvLrP1cghHN0GKz2bRvV5AZLSTjpCWe8xAcp-2j946yJnT920XCtTxHY4PefGEcD7uG5o6G2YnHkjmuq6H7WuJ-cj4f0gG6QPTwNrYQaVm5Ww7g-dB6pfg2pYmc67w4-kbeHBaHb00g8ttd6c9o2yR3L_e2omXFIn1XOZFGk08A2iRg/s1395/River%20Face.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="1395" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjYgZJaRhrvLrP1cghHN0GKz2bRvV5AZLSTjpCWe8xAcp-2j946yJnT920XCtTxHY4PefGEcD7uG5o6G2YnHkjmuq6H7WuJ-cj4f0gG6QPTwNrYQaVm5Ww7g-dB6pfg2pYmc67w4-kbeHBaHb00g8ttd6c9o2yR3L_e2omXFIn1XOZFGk08A2iRg/w640-h378/River%20Face.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p>It has been well documented how transphobes use biology (incorrectly, by the way) to account for there only being two sexes. There are actually many more than two chromosomal variants of sex. In order to attack the idea that you can be born in the wrong body (which they may view as a slight against the putative omnipotence of their god), they erase the practice of doctors literally choosing to assign a sex (happens frequently), and the existence of intersex people. Although this is an egregious thing in itself, there are many eloquent people writing and speaking on this. However, one of the ideological uses of biology has emerged in the discourse of ecology, and this is something I rarely hear discussed or critiqued. The idea of "invasive species" has emerged in the last half century to describe species that move beyond their range and "take over." Such plants as kudzu, purple loosestrife, and animals such as zebra mussels, asian carp, and burmese pythons have all been demonized as ecologically destructive, or disrupting existing ecological relationships. </p><p>There is no basis in biological theory, however, for the idea of invasive species. The overarching theory in biology, analogous to plate tectonics for geology, is evolution. It maintains that species pass down inherited adaptations to their environment. Sometimes, adapting to a current environment includes moving away from it, whether purposely or not. Coconuts float, and they are known to colonize islands long beyond their original range. If the idea of invasive species cannot be found anywhere in the overarching theory of biology, then it is not a biological idea. It's a political idea, and the political idea it is most clearly related to is fascism. Biology should take no stands on what belongs where because that is not what concerns it. Species have always moved in various ways, looking for new opportunities to survive and thrive. Homo sapiens sapiens is no exception. </p><p>While it is true that a species can do so well in a new environment, it makes survival harder for other organisms already in that ecosystem, most species can and do adapt to the new situation. It's been happening for billions of years. Ecology developed as a branch of biology, however, in its recent concern about invasive species, it has become much more useful for the political ideology of fascism than to biology. Part of fascism's <i>modus operandi</i> is the identification and demonization of external and internal enemies of the nation. Its aggression towards ethnic minorities as "not belonging" to the nation is well-known. It identifies scapegoats, people that are easy to blame economic troubles on (fascism tends to arise during periods of economic downturn) because they are different. Gay people, not like "us." Jews: not like "us." You get the picture. By saying a species does not belong somewhere, people are making a non-scientific judgment. There is nothing scientific about the idea of invasive species. It does not describe reality in an objective, neutral way. It makes a moral judgment.  </p><p>Let's take a recent example of an invasive species moral panic: burmese pythons in Florida. A young man named Garrett got famous on Instagram for his handling of species feared such as venomous snakes, spiders, etc. He decided his mission was to "yoink" (his colorful word for capturing) a 20 foot burmese python in Florida. All the specimens he collects (of burmese pythons at least), I assume he kills, seeing as he seems to buy into this idea of invasive species. All the people worried about "invasive species" talk about how the populations of native wildlife decline because the population of burmese pythons has grown so fast. They even cite studies sometimes, although the studies they cite often don't even support their own points or arguments. I read one of the studies they cited, and it showed that burmese pythons do indeed impact the populations of animals like skunks, raccoons, and rabbits. Any person in North America could tell you that these populations are plentiful and for the most part healthy. If their populations decline a little in a small corner of their range, what's the big deal? Burmese pythons are cold-blooded. They don't need to eat often. In fact, they can survive for almost a year without eating if they have a big meal such as a white-tailed deer. That kind of predation is hardly a concern for local animal populations. What, then is behind this policy-supported mission to get rid of burmese pythons in Florida, when it can clearly support a population of them there without too much harm? </p><p>It's a moral idea. People don't like snakes. They are afraid of them. They are a symbol of evil in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the dominant religions of the area. I would argue on the other hand that in these days of ecological crisis, snakes should be considered role models of ecological citizenship, rather than demonized. They consume so little compared to birds or mammals. The idea of "invasive species" dovetails too nicely with the idea of immigrants. The moral panics over invasive species have been a not-so-benign wellspring of the resurgence of popularity of fascist ideology. </p><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-misuses-of-biology-critique-of-idea.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-5789002512651520863Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:42:00 +00002025-10-08T11:42:43.852-04:00Running Out of Words: a book of poetry by Trevor Cunnington<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><div class="sc-2c79702b-0 cVxBhp" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: block; font-family: "ABC Oracle Plus Variable", -apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="cm-EUWRVf" style="padding-bottom: 24px;"><div class="cm-CjbveT cm-WLfYlv cm-GENDEJ cm-giECTa cm-PkFHzk cm-bnYPun cm-PcQADW cm-FJDquX" style="align-items: normal; display: flex; flex-flow: row; gap: 24px; height: auto; justify-content: space-between; width: auto;"><div class="cm-imXdeh cm-tnhZkQ" style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex-flow: row; place-content: flex-start space-between; width: fit-content;"><h1 class="cm-ialtoT cm-dyHRMA cm-KbsWTM cm-YxOXMe cm-ThmtRO cm-GGZhvK cm-rilNUk" style="color: black; font-family: "ABC Oracle Plus Variable", -apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 40px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -1.2px; line-height: 48px; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div data-is-key-element="true">Apologies for the lack of posts last month. 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--richtext-link-underline: color-mix(in srgb,rgba(0,0,0,.6),transparent 40%); --richtext-text-color: #000; color: inherit; font-family: "ABC Oracle Plus Variable", -apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 337; letter-spacing: -0.18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: -16px; margin-top: -16px; white-space: pre-line;"><p style="color: inherit; font-size: 18px; height: 1rem; line-height: inherit; margin: 20px 0px;"></p><p style="color: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 20px 0px;">This project is an engagement with several traditions of avant garde poetry, especially <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=define+concrete+poetry&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">concrete poetry</a>, <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=define+Oulipo&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">Oulipo</a>, and <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=L%3DA%3DN%3DG%3DU%3DA%3DG%3DE+poetry&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E</a>. It is also heavily influenced by the postmodern novels of <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=Thomas+Pynchon&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">Thomas Pynchon</a> and <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=William+Gaddis&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">William Gaddis</a>, who in their novels <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=Gravity%27s+Rainbow&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">Gravity's Rainbow</a> and <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=The+Recognitions+Gaddis&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">The Recognitions</a>, used motif as the structuring principle of their works, rather than plot. As many of the writers in these traditions have not experienced commercial success, I think this is the kind of work that Arts agencies should support. My engagement with concrete poetry and Oulipo (both strongly represented in Toronto by writers such as <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=bpNichol+Toronto+writer&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">bpNichol</a>, <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=Christian+Bok+Toronto+writer&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">Christian Bok</a>, and others) is critical. I think most concrete poetry does not lend itself to re-reading, because once you "get" it, there remains no reason to read it. In this way, they are more like puzzles than poems. My favourite poems are the ones that shift with your own consciousness as you read them, the ones that reward you for re-reading them over and over again. However, I think concrete poetry's central insight that language has a material dimension is very important, so I wanted to incorporate that insight into this collection of poems. Oulipo tends to produce work that has very little emotional resonance. However, free composition, while it has its place, often fails to create works of lasting value. Adding constraints to your writing practice is a good way to improve your discipline.</p><p style="color: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 20px 0px;">"<a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=Running+out+of+Words+poems&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">Running out of Words</a>" often features poems with formatting that have some kind of pictorial aspect. Since I am a published artist and photographer as well, I am incorporating some of my drawings and photographs into the manuscript to enliven it and to reflect its themes and motifs. The first poem, a prologue, is about poetry itself, asking the question "what shape is a poem?" All of the subsequent poems will use all the words and ideas of the prologue as a springboard for new poems, growing out of it as if it is a collection of seeds in soil. This is the constraint, consonant with Oulipo. The last poem, the epilogue, uses all of the same words as the prologue, with some slight changes to make it make more sense. Towards the end of the collection, the poems move from fairly transparent to dense L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E inflected poems where wordplay is the modus operandi of composition. The themes I deal with are the human relationship with nature (nature as God), documenting personal experiences, finding one's place in the world as an <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=autistic+person+writing&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">autistic person</a>, and the difficult legacies of <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=colonialism+definition&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">colonialism</a> and <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=patriarchy+definition&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">patriarchy</a>. I use strong motifs of <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=fences+symbolism+in+literature&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">fences</a>, <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=fire+symbolism+in+literature&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">fire</a>, <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=philosophy+of+death+and+time+themes&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">philosophy of death and time</a>, and <a data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=human+nature+relationships&bbid=18570477&bpid=5789002512651520863" target="_blank">human-nature relationships</a>. While incorporating aspects of the aforementioned avant-garde traditions, I write poems with maximal re-reading value and emotional resonance. I envision this collection to be 100 pages, and so far I have written 25 pages. </p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2025/10/running-out-of-words-book-of-poetry-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-4945103730584191266Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:30:00 +00002025-07-16T19:30:22.365-04:00artliteraturepoetryshort fictionwritingWriters and Artists! Submit to KayTell Ink. Call for Submissions.<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hello! I'm the poetry editor over at the webzine <b>KayTell Ink</b>. They have a forum and everything, so you should totally visit the website at <a href="https://www.kaytellinkpublishing.com/">KayTell Ink Publishing | Baltimore Literary Magazine</a>. While we have been publishing mostly short fiction and poetry, we are looking to expand our horizons. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you’re able to<span> </span><strong>share or repost in some way</strong> this call for submissions it would mean a lot. We’re especially trying to bring in more submissions in the following areas:</span></span></p><ul style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="font-family: georgia;">Nonfiction</strong></span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="font-family: georgia;">Essays</strong></span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="font-family: georgia;">Artwork</strong></span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Misc. Articles</strong><span> </span>– This includes book reviews, food reviews (especially Baltimore/local), or any other standalone piece</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>We look forward to reading your work, or looking at your art!!!!</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p></li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2025/07/writers-and-artists-submit-to-kaytell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-8498840093901036682Thu, 05 Jun 2025 03:46:00 +00002025-06-04T23:46:37.661-04:00drawing; visible hand<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicH9Np97HMlLq3Fp_aGrH_k2hj1a59qukpOVBby2v52v3ayGXoCSWgW9-gSYcZLBc3Rpd1lcXvvVDR9O1h0tB1BDXGcsMFZthMa4LMWLifbqZ4S54v47LfwGkSQt0M5vHns08_DDgpHby5lfz0cHrvseDkpD33TnEkclj34jI0CwitLWodPsfH3Q/s3507/The%20Visible%20Hand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicH9Np97HMlLq3Fp_aGrH_k2hj1a59qukpOVBby2v52v3ayGXoCSWgW9-gSYcZLBc3Rpd1lcXvvVDR9O1h0tB1BDXGcsMFZthMa4LMWLifbqZ4S54v47LfwGkSQt0M5vHns08_DDgpHby5lfz0cHrvseDkpD33TnEkclj34jI0CwitLWodPsfH3Q/w452-h640/The%20Visible%20Hand.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2025/06/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-6981834075212738018Fri, 09 May 2025 14:22:00 +00002025-05-09T10:22:43.516-04:00hyperrealism; art; vision; drawing; abstraction; figurativitySnake and Octopus: drawing by Trevor Cunnington<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc6zKV1jdMLMxYQDN8CqKZZIFgbKuZJgx2JOvJPKq5n_EMvEBDyt0YPupuw7V7NeDPdFvvfVZP3BSi4HZFQgi_j2vVcwJlgwPsV0ipFYd0MeUHmdXiBnj1KjKCj3svTzXlLUH5FwcKVKWTQTnIwWlunDqhcPi3CnqRk15H6_8SKRVyycVTjSc8nw/s3507/Snake%20and%20Octopus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc6zKV1jdMLMxYQDN8CqKZZIFgbKuZJgx2JOvJPKq5n_EMvEBDyt0YPupuw7V7NeDPdFvvfVZP3BSi4HZFQgi_j2vVcwJlgwPsV0ipFYd0MeUHmdXiBnj1KjKCj3svTzXlLUH5FwcKVKWTQTnIwWlunDqhcPi3CnqRk15H6_8SKRVyycVTjSc8nw/w453-h640/Snake%20and%20Octopus.jpg" width="453" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>From my sketchbook. I like a balance between abstraction and figurativity. I'm not a fan of Abstract Expressionism at all because of its extreme arbitrariness. I do like geometric-based abstraction that veers towards OpArt. In most arts, when we talk about value, I think there are two general poles of evaluation: vision and technical skill. Movements like hyperrealism value the latter over the former. I tend to value the former over the latter. For instance, Henri Rousseau was often considered a "naive" artist because his technical skill was somewhat underdeveloped. However, the quality of his vision was very powerful and remains impactful. I tend to be somewhat critical of the popularity of hyperrealism because of its overdependence on technical skill. However, some of its representatives, such as the work of Richard Estes, combines a powerful vision with advanced technical skill, culminating in masterpieces. My technical skill is low, but I think I have better-than-average artistic vision. <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2025/05/snake-and-octopus-drawing-by-trevor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-2849480404200822454Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:17:00 +00002025-01-25T12:17:38.683-05:00survival; poem; identity;Survival <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Raffled, these ruffled feathers</p><p>of a trumpeter swan, not the mute leathery</p><p>texture of a turtle, taken in a touch</p><p>written by a referee, only a dry basin</p><p>short barks followed by a full minute</p><p>of observation; what does she see? </p><p>Castle, up on the promontory flowers bloom</p><p>in the desert, apricots, smaller fruits, dates, olives</p><p>Who knows when of the earth's powers soon</p><p>in-un-depleted, in hope what? Water, water. . . <br /></p><p>nowhere, but drops to drink in the form of fog</p><p>that moistens the lips during the arduous hunts</p><p>Margarine taunts, migraine haunts, desert rat</p><p>barbecue we haven't been hardened to anything</p><p>but surviving as a primary aim. . . <br /></p><p>it was just the future in an image</p><p>if fie! you build it, otherwise cometh</p><p>an uncertain lineage, as if liberation</p><p>was in that image repeated in an otherwise <br /></p><p>identitarian crisis.<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2020/05/subscribe-in-reader-raffled-these.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-7717912788361860190Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:01:00 +00002025-01-17T14:53:49.588-05:00fungi; photographyNatural Rock Climbing Wall<p><br /><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3CdNsUa-SonN6-maLxBSeROyVRpCK3hqw2oa0mFYf-7ORcBPt7RMcw3LHIlA0FvSosgJkP11Atf5Z8vPDYHgBbu8sSXIkcZUXhlsFwUf4JVwNt8awe2yQDSYl2oHMSAcnjDRJmSw6upZ_6WaAArW9ZXs1h6dfDVAro0zNOxZLtRbsriIQ2f0Mg/s1277/AdobePhotoshopExpress_227803b3d5a24fd08749364d7969ae49_jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1277" data-original-width="717" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3CdNsUa-SonN6-maLxBSeROyVRpCK3hqw2oa0mFYf-7ORcBPt7RMcw3LHIlA0FvSosgJkP11Atf5Z8vPDYHgBbu8sSXIkcZUXhlsFwUf4JVwNt8awe2yQDSYl2oHMSAcnjDRJmSw6upZ_6WaAArW9ZXs1h6dfDVAro0zNOxZLtRbsriIQ2f0Mg/w360-h640/AdobePhotoshopExpress_227803b3d5a24fd08749364d7969ae49_jpg.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2025/01/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-3396150921571925687Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:06:00 +00002024-12-12T00:07:51.835-05:00art; poetry; formalism; the gill guild; Innsmouth; ArkhamOur Respite in Mouths.<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> From here to there is not so far a distance<br /> lines short of breadth, easier to read instants<br /> coming one upon the other, as in a capillary<br /> My mother upon the ocean, where is the distillery?<br /> <br /> A long line or a short, a harpoon and some water<br /> that weary hath the coastline travelled, with father<br /> After another, it is disaster averted<br /> to an amoeba with lines fishing, ship refurbished<br /> on the distant shore, a choir started to sing<br /> and called forth from the air, a munificent ring<br /> of sub-tones, timbres spare and pure, tear<br /> ducts were primed, stuck writing and not throwing spears<br /> <br /> A long last line, that’s the ticket; it will sell<br /> partially from a wicket, perhaps at a game of cricket<br /> dancing down the lane until all hell breaks out<br /> tell-no-one because of its inarticulateness<br /> <br /> Ring the Death Knell, or a heart, smartly quelled<br /> to hand a rivet, in all proportion, heart swelled<br /> Can you think of nowhere to stick it? <br /> <br /> The Heart it smarts, how lapidary is that?<br /> Rocks charted in their promontories, exact<br /> Tit for tat now, medical kits stowed in the apse<br /> of the boat’s prow, sedulous pap for the penny press<br /> <br /> If you’ve got vertigo, I’ll go down with impetigo<br /> lord have mercy, where do we go, sit down<br /> collect sequoia dust, reel in the nets, sea gulls<br /> have their impresarios, their petty thefts, but deftly<br /> done in the summer-wet air, a torso with heft<br /> ok, that was a bit of a stretch, go big, sea gulls to eagles<br /> <br /> Don Juan leans the other way<br /> like a pasta drenched in sauce bearnaise.<br /> Rocks, citronella candled, <br /> jazz cradled in my lap, nice place for a vaycay. <br /> <br /> Jonah in the belly,<br /> oysters on the counter,<br /> water’s rising, Jelly<br /> sperm whale lantern.<br /> <br /> Stars to guide. The Gill Guild. <br /> A rickety chair at the end<br /> of the journey. A sturdy <br /> chair for the boat. A dusty<br /> anchor on the rust-top<br /> boat seats. <br /> <br /> Fire. It all ends in fire. <a class="twitter-share-button" data-hashtags="art" data-via="trevorcunning" href="https://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a> <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-respite-in-mouths.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-2233236825446716049Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:01:00 +00002024-11-07T19:01:21.035-05:00drawings; patterns;<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p>I've been having fun photographing drawings, and them digital manipulating them to make interesting patterns. Here are a couple I made recently. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3-rTAsOuzibEHcCCCQxJrEyJPcMuF7hlJrng9ny2ylIpboFYUhsbsg5TNWA1X12x31iqtMaw-lZASo2xYaS2QP-3Y8jHYSRV003VC3MKYJGcZ4FiBUUH_XqJCoG5aIAMydVrDbfyZSTYTPvQqsK7d_xToIHMiMyB3GfH67JEvtYim592VAuyIhA/s2048/Fairy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3-rTAsOuzibEHcCCCQxJrEyJPcMuF7hlJrng9ny2ylIpboFYUhsbsg5TNWA1X12x31iqtMaw-lZASo2xYaS2QP-3Y8jHYSRV003VC3MKYJGcZ4FiBUUH_XqJCoG5aIAMydVrDbfyZSTYTPvQqsK7d_xToIHMiMyB3GfH67JEvtYim592VAuyIhA/w300-h400/Fairy.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4hyphenhyphen168a2nXGz34lyN8qcGI3-UdcrUEhycgrYSKV0TdpiEJtracYADm6dZVVIU5gd4So-RXF8fz0XUNlLZQC-z-enyDwrdD_IJSIy-WQnrCroQTWDJRUm1uYXbY0-MLzBy3KDpr2eY8CcTjI0apkLiDq2gD73HbyMCTBBClFWmppzGVhOBf9IYrA/s2302/Mohawk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2302" data-original-width="1195" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4hyphenhyphen168a2nXGz34lyN8qcGI3-UdcrUEhycgrYSKV0TdpiEJtracYADm6dZVVIU5gd4So-RXF8fz0XUNlLZQC-z-enyDwrdD_IJSIy-WQnrCroQTWDJRUm1uYXbY0-MLzBy3KDpr2eY8CcTjI0apkLiDq2gD73HbyMCTBBClFWmppzGVhOBf9IYrA/w208-h400/Mohawk.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br /><p><br /> <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2024/11/subscribe-in-reader-ive-been-having-fun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-7893960109847606701Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:26:00 +00002024-10-09T13:26:41.797-04:00<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p>I'd just like to thank the wonderful folks @openartsforum, especially Raymond Huffman, for supporting my poetry by publishing it on their site. Currently, I have one poem that was featured on the main page, and soon I will have another. I've included a link below. They also feature some stellar visual artists. They have a bunch of themed forums, so if you're a writer, you can workshop pieces in the workshop section. Currently, it's slow, but the more people visit, the more active it will become. </p><p>I've added a link in the sidebar to their site. </p><p><a href="https://openartsforum.com/underwaterworld/">Open Arts Forum | Underwaterworld</a> This is the latest poem they've published of mine. There are other wonderful poets associated with the site. Have a look!</p><p><a href="http://www.openartsforum.com">www.openartsforum.com</a></p><p> <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2024/10/subscribe-in-reader-id-just-like-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-7394221655742955145Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:17:00 +00002024-09-27T13:17:42.359-04:00art; drawing; flowers; abstraction; processesFlowers: Drawing by Trevor Cunnington<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzarK7hIZa4xuY3CcrwRYqNCqm5DRh2UN6gSFb9g12U_PmvLG3OPINVhP1jK_qqcg4HuBexLB1JPs00EhFUt3hU_AyrWb8f3qq_oRyRmcxbAqjQfLHvOaiEssyMkGXOmrJ8FVIXWoKWUaWtj_RIA73Y5XzOcfBEHnil7uf7RXsxmNQitihf76Vw/s2108/IMG_0085.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1490" data-original-width="2108" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzarK7hIZa4xuY3CcrwRYqNCqm5DRh2UN6gSFb9g12U_PmvLG3OPINVhP1jK_qqcg4HuBexLB1JPs00EhFUt3hU_AyrWb8f3qq_oRyRmcxbAqjQfLHvOaiEssyMkGXOmrJ8FVIXWoKWUaWtj_RIA73Y5XzOcfBEHnil7uf7RXsxmNQitihf76Vw/w400-h283/IMG_0085.JPEG" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2024/09/flowers-drawing-by-trevor-cunnington.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-4712267207653525886Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:04:00 +00002024-09-12T14:04:56.178-04:00art; drawing; Cecile Carriere; movement; chaos theory; dance<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh7Rpp27Ovv1bdjFuzRXD5clpnvNjlHuxMRXvd3INOIN1hM5OE0QARVhRhHNmZ6UXkvw8Mze_3mJTyJ_gVqVGmAw3Ob7S28VhnkjDdS5E86pYGwYE5pqIEHfOd-JPijNXmCG41zASapSwAW0gRYGN4wlRWZKWWpKsv-ceNeOBNN5CJtx07cUG8Lw/s1192/cecile2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="842" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh7Rpp27Ovv1bdjFuzRXD5clpnvNjlHuxMRXvd3INOIN1hM5OE0QARVhRhHNmZ6UXkvw8Mze_3mJTyJ_gVqVGmAw3Ob7S28VhnkjDdS5E86pYGwYE5pqIEHfOd-JPijNXmCG41zASapSwAW0gRYGN4wlRWZKWWpKsv-ceNeOBNN5CJtx07cUG8Lw/s320/cecile2.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a><p></p><p>This is a drawing by Cecile Carriere, an artist from Paris, who I collaborated with in 2007. I wrote poems in response to her drawings, mostly in English, but I tried a few clumsy ones in French that she gracefully edited as well. I showed someone in the arts scene here in Toronto her drawings, and they dismissed her as an Egon Schiele wannabe. That hurt my feelings on her behalf, to be honest. Her drawings really speak to me. Perhaps it's because she has a knack for fluid lines, whereas in my drawings, lines are either straight or rounded. I often admire what is beyond my reach as an artist the most. </p><p>This particular drawing never ceases to astonish me. At first glance, all you see is a strange figure in different phases of movement simultaneously. But as you glance at it, there emerge four distinct postures, that seem static in themselves, but when combined give a pleasing sense of movement, almost of dance. You see a person jumping, with knees slightly bent; you see a person standing on one foot (although no ground is indicated), and leaning slightly backward, as if they are losing their balance and about to fall. The combination of implied clumsiness of this figure, and the graceful dance aspect create a wonderful sense of tension and contrast that impels you to fasten your eyes on it for longer. Also, you see a person in the upper left quadrant kneeling and crouched over, and looking curiously at . . . the figures that are jumping, or leaning backward. This suggests the bare bones of narrative. Finally, if you focus on the upper right quadrant, the jumping figure becomes a kneeling figure, but unbent over, again suggesting a different set of movements than the lower half of the drawing, from kneeling crouched over to kneeling and upright. This figure has their arm bent over their head, as if they are scratching their back. The decision to leave out a "ground" creates this ambiguity that lends itself to different movements, and ultimately to narrative. A wonderful complexity emerges from the deceptive simplicity of this drawing that demands more than a glance. Bravo Cecile!!!!<br /></p><p> <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2024/09/subscribe-in-reader-this-is-drawing-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-9197676022010792129Thu, 29 Aug 2024 01:33:00 +00002024-08-28T21:33:46.638-04:00Dogs Enjoying Themselves in the Heat<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwq1tniZ69drD8k5c1cR41wtEecOFD1mMqL1sjMTy2yBlxxwgEuqS2I1A4Os-WpBtxMBJcxYfr7rp8' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2024/08/dogs-enjoying-themselves-in-heat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-3081307826457570682Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:20:00 +00002024-06-24T16:20:04.924-04:00poem; banyan tree; reading by a campfireAn ill-omened book <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> <b>An ill-omened book<br /></b></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The deckled edges of the book </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">from whence you had just </span><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlAdvancedProofingIssueV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIxMCIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyIj48ZyBmaWxsPSJub25lIiBmaWxsLXJ1bGU9ImV2ZW5vZGQiPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoMTB2MkgweiIvPjxwYXRoIHN0cm9rZT0iIzcxNjBFOCIgc3Ryb2tlLWxpbmVjYXA9InJvdW5kIiBzdHJva2Utd2lkdGg9IjIiIGQ9Ik0xIDFoNCIvPjwvZz48L3N2Zz4=")); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">taken a look</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; 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color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a grimoire of antiquity</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; 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color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">painstaking iniquity </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">emblazoned on every page, </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a most dishonoured book</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">settling into someone’s neurons</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and the delicate propinquity</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of the possibility of oppositional</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">readings of the chef of horrors who cooks</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">insurance claims, books</span></span>,</p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and the sickled-sins-of-the-father</span></span>;</p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a storehouse of horrors</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hiding in the larder, beside the bother-</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">some kidney beans, pressing against the can</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of peas and corn, granola bars; a vial of sand</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">beside the basil oil, resting all over the land</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">beyond the back wall stove stand</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tall and firm among the cloven hooves</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> quicksand</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Down in the silo</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the grains jostle, and a rat snake </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seeks the mice </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">therein</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">attracted by the sandy wheat</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">piled many times the height of a tall man</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">out the stray grains to sweep</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and use all the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==")); 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font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">back home on crazy street, the heat-lamps</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">warm hot dogs and sausage,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the smell of meat assaults the sand-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==")); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wich</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a wasp of a witch, a which way to go situation</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the cross-roads of the hostile takeover of creation</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the ointment rubbed on the broomstick</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">An unguent of the ages</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A tool of the sages, absorbed through </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a mucus membrane</span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hallucinations forthwith, henbane</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">belladonna, a full moon on all hallows eve,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hemlock potluck, liberty cap mushrooms, </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the sensation of </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjMiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMzVGIiBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIC41aDVNMCAyLjVoNSIvPjwvZz48L3N2Zz4=")); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">shape-shifting</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">at the time of the lunar eclipse, drifting</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">on a wave of doom as soon</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as the gloom lifted, a mist swiftly</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">enveloped </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the clearing, </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">feeling like </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">you’re</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> flying above your body, </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">then an electricity-like transmission</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of the self through time-space</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; 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color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wearing the black cap of the were-cat</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; 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color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==")); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">graymalkin</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==")); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">jumpin</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==")); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">jehosephat</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">appear capped in the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==")); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">cemetary</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that doubles as an arboretum, carry</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the alms in a blanket made of elk-skin</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">p<span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">archment</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==")); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">skeltonics</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, burnt around the edges</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sedges under siege from the flames</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">miles away the earth shakes mildly,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; 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font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as powerful spirits are conjured, wildly</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW139969591 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Centaur, Centaur_EmbeddedFont, Centaur_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW139969591 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; 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vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> </p><p>For the most part, I find public art generally underwhelming. I like this humanoid figure made out of brick though. Location: Toronto. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY_6Ba-yRo1IhzLJVtV20SmpyXDYJdQcUBz1qxOvIGR820uBjHcM3lnJJQywRnjGnnbYyaeC1CnDABvBnYs9h-Gq_XpNIpUkqFjQCAgO_tE_srRy5Nn2TRoA7Qtgs4MgCK5ICiPe-F0dEHq3xdSYlStOrgBzkXemPi82Goo3mLS0YSu5RdOBHNFQ/s2048/IMG_1723.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY_6Ba-yRo1IhzLJVtV20SmpyXDYJdQcUBz1qxOvIGR820uBjHcM3lnJJQywRnjGnnbYyaeC1CnDABvBnYs9h-Gq_XpNIpUkqFjQCAgO_tE_srRy5Nn2TRoA7Qtgs4MgCK5ICiPe-F0dEHq3xdSYlStOrgBzkXemPi82Goo3mLS0YSu5RdOBHNFQ/w300-h400/IMG_1723.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2024/02/public-art.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-7413081967292773937Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:00:00 +00002024-01-22T15:00:24.161-05:00Existential Betrayal in the work of Philip Roth<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> This is the first half of an essay on a thematic obsession of Philip Roth's, the late novelist. If you work at a publication interested in seeing a full version (probably would be between 3000 and 4000 words), let me know @ trevor.cunnington@gmail.com<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Existential Betrayal in the work of Philip Roth</b><br /></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> New Yorker</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from Philip Roth to Wikipedia, after Roth </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> changed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Wikipedia</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">decided Roth was not</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a credible source on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">his own</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> novel </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in some grand gesture to Roland Barthes’ essay “Death of the Author</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The correction he so direly wanted to make, which he could have made himself had he registered to Wikipedia</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, was that the character of Coleman Silk was based not on the writer Anatole </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Broyard</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, with whom Roth was acquainted tenuously</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, but rather on Princeton professor of sociology Melvin </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Tumin</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, with whom Roth was close friends</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Ironically enough, Roth </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">declares</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that Wikipedia’s claim that Coleman Silk was based on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Broyard</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> was the result of “the babble of literary gossip,” the same social force that dooms Silk in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Human Stain</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I bring this quibble up not to vex the already exhausted topic of Barthes’ “Death of the Author” or to rehash the truism that not everything is exactly as it appears especially on the internet, but rather to use it as an example of the central theme of Roth’s work: what I will henceforth call existential betrayal. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Before I continue, it behooves me to define and clarify a term I invented for the purposes of this essay. First, existential betrayal does not hold court with the philosophical school whose central tenet is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">existence precedes essence,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> which</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> another way of saying things were here long before ideas</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> about those things</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, which are often considered </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> primary symptom of consciousness. It has nothing to do with this philosophical debate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. I have simply used the adjectival form of existence. How do you betray existence, then? If you live in a democracy and accept democratic principles, you allow a fascist to become president. If you are a successful </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">businessman</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> who has achieved the American Dream, your daughter becomes a terrorist and blows up a post office. If you are a light-skinned </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">African-American</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, you </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">cut your family out of your life, and you live your life as a white person. Any Philip Roth fan will by now have recognized the central situations of three of his novels: </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Plot Against America</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Human Stain</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, respectively. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; 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font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Betrayal of the kind that Roth seems perversely interested in has a long </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">literary </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">history. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, betraying their creator’s wishes. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cain murders Abel out of envy of the latter’s ability to please God with his meat offerings. Judas, one of Jesus’ beloved disciples, turns him over to the Romans who crucify him. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Oedipus kills his father and unknowingly sleeps with his mother, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">breaking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> one of the most universal taboo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s, that of incest. Claudius kills his own brother and marries his wife, Hamlet’s mother. Macbeth kills Duncan after being rewarded for his bravery in battle. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">African Americans on paper were given freedom; in life, they were hardly even given freedom with the introduction of Jim Crow Laws. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Special Field Order 15, which offered the newly freed slaves 40 acres of land, and a mule to borrow from the Union army</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> was quickly overturned by President Andrew Jackson. The freed slaves had been promised the autonomy and independence inherent in land ownership. What they received was a tenuous, and sometimes outright dangerous, freedom from slavery, but not from the lynch mob</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, not from discriminatory housing and employment policies, not from police brutality</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">These</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> betrayals, both fictional and real,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> are all very visceral</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and their repercussions are felt to this day</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">What, however, distinguishes a garden variety betrayal from an existential betrayal? An existential betrayal is one that violates a human universal. While the latter has been notoriously difficult to pin </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">down, what with the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seemingly endless</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> var</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">iety of human culture across both time and space, there are still, postmodernists </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">notwithstanding</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, a handful of human universals. Small group bonding, which we call the family, is a universal. Even feral children have bonded to a small group of a variety of animals: dogs, cats, and monkeys. Betraying this small group, without a doubt, is an existential betrayal, as it </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">undermines all relationships and puts one’s very </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identity</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> into question. That is what is so devastating in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">American Pastoral</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. 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His world has been annihilated by betrayal. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; user-select: text; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face", "Baskerville Old Face_EmbeddedFont", "Baskerville Old Face_MSFontService", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Francis Fukuyama famously declared the end of history after the fall</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> And yet, things continued to happen, and as if that line of a certain front rippled across the earth, happenings were recorded and passed down. It occurs to me the person to make such a declaration knew about as much about history as a billiard ball knows about beer. In Roth, thankfully, history </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hasn’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> ended for better or for worse. 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Such an irony in a story about people hurt by such actions and being associated with those actions is not lost, especially since in her vision the reality of her country never lives up to the principles it proclaims to its people and to the world. 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That the “plot” is “against” America, a stealth Fascist insurgency spearheaded by a hugely popular aviator, a character type redolent of bravery and honour and other such longstanding virtues in our literary canon, is another existential betrayal. Lindbergh and his cronies in the alternate history format rush the presidency, he gets </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">elected</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58250348 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> on his sheer recognizability, then he bans all other parties and undoes the especially virulent democracy of America in a short span of time. 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I bought this book directly from Ms. Mckenna, an Irish poet I discovered through the litrag <i>Rattle</i>. This slim collection of poems is more than a sum of its parts, and all the poems cohere in a nice fashion (not that I think that is always necessary or desirable). It is a testament to her late father, and deals primarily in the theme of grief, filtered through vivid memories, recent past experiences of being a caregiver, and present experiences of dealing with the estate. There is beauty here, and wisdom. Occasionally she plays with formatting, but she is at her best when she writes in free verse stanzas, where the suppleness of her joy in language shines. In the poem "The Morning after Reading the Will," she echoes Tolstoy's famous quotation that "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" when she riffs ". . . Every family is fractured by revelations of being itself" (21). The lack of capitalization on "being" suggests that the revelations aren't about existence as such, but about the times that our overly socialized masks drop in moments of stress and tension, our being-together as ourselves without these masks. I was bowled over by the beauty of such passages as "Holy statues suggest forgiveness, a pet/fish ingests faeces, the moon/howls allegations and binmen are out/and ripped, slapping shut overnight lids/their deep throat shoulder blades of inked/tongues speaking fake bruises onto skin." For once, it's a moon reference in a poem that is not eye-rolling, and what a fresh way to describe a man's tattoos! This is a tightly-knit poetry collection that rewards multiple readings. </p><p>4. <i>Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master: Texts and Interviews</i> by Genesis Breyer P-orridge, Peter Christopherson, and Jon Savage (2018). <br /></p><p>This book I bought from the publisher Trapart Books because I am a big fan of William Burroughs, and in a book of interviews with him called <i>The Job</i>, he said he derived the technique of cut-ups he used in composition for his Nova Trilogy (of which <i>The Soft Machine </i>is a favourite of mine) from Brion Gysin. I had no idea, however, that I was in for a rollicking account of the social world of some of the twentieth century's most important artists. Brion's life was truly astonishing and worthy of an epic biopic. He knew <i>everyone</i>, from the original group of Surrealist painters and writers in Paris in the 1920s, through the Beat writers, through the personnel of the Rolling Stones and Beatles, to legendary Joujouka musicians, to even Yves St. Laurent and the power behind the throne of the Church of Scientology. He himself was primarily known as a painter, although he seems somewhat of a polymath. He wrote a book called <i>The History of Slavery in Canada</i>, as well as books about the "Beat Hotel" in Paris, and a novel or two. His views on the cut-up are the most fascinating, but he swears his most important contribution to the world was the Dreammachine. He claims that if he had managed to find a way to mass-produce it, it would have become the non-drug alternative to heightened states of consciousness in the 1960s. From his descriptions, it sounds like it's a more elaborate version of closing your eyes and staring at a strobe light, which renders beautiful patterns and arabesques on your eyelids. He calls it an "art-object" although clearly it is somewhat of an invention as well. Someone who experienced it said that it rendered the art museum superfluous because it inspired such beautiful visions. I also quite enjoyed his description of experiences of running a restaurant in Morocco. It was refreshing to encounter his prescient anti-transphobia, but his gay misogyny was a bit disheartening. We can't all be perfect, I suppose. What an astonishing life and work! </p><p>5. <i>Second Nature</i> by John Schertzer (2023). To be honest, I'm still wading through this chunky book of poems. It's very dense, but the quality is extraordinarily high. As it somewhat loosely clusters groups of poems under headings such as "An Economy Can Remember Us," "Drop Scenes," "Convenience Struggles," and "Plan for a Broken Bowl" (which I hope is a reference to Henry James' masterpiece of frustrated love <i>The Golden Bowl</i>), it is not as tightly knit as the aforementioned collection. However, after reading the first twenty or so poems, I have a feeling this is going to become a favourite poetry book of mine. I am in no hurry to finish it, as I love to relish poetry slowly. He clearly writes in a lineage I myself write in: heavily influenced by avant-garde schools of poetry such as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and the Black Mountain and New York schools of modern poetry. I love the two-faced "Seventeen," which originally presents itself as a group of 17 seemingly unrelated poetic declarations, such as "A trash receptacle in a labyrinth," "Questions answering themselves silently," and "Oblique circles of days matching the moon." Each declaration is numbered. If you read the poem again, however, and mentally delete the numbers, a certain flow emerges between the declarations, and motifs of circularity emerge and serve to unify the poem. If you're looking for straight-forward lyric or narrative poetry, this is not going to be your cup of tea. This is cerebral stuff, folks, which is why I'm going to take my time with this one. <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2023/12/my-year-in-reading-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-5637081074852595226Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:58:00 +00002023-12-15T12:58:55.642-05:00Reading; books; criticism; poetry; fictionMy year in Reading<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> </p><p>I read a bit more this year than in the last five years, which I very much intended. It was since I downloaded Instagram, whose reels section copies the wildly popular short form video format of TikTok, that my reading decreased. A friend and I often gripe about the effects of these genres of content on the human attention span. The consensual position in my Communication and Culture program was that the perspective of technological determinism; the idea that new technology shapes human consciousness and social change more than, say, social relations; hews too closely to behaviourist psychological perspectives (the work of B.F. Skinner and Pavlov among others) to give us the best tools to examine communication systems. </p><p>Technological determinism is a short hand criticism of some of the most important Communication theorists such as Marshal McLuhan and Harold Innis, who tracked changes in human politics or relations and sourced these changes in technological changes of communications systems. Innis believed some forms of communication had a time-bias (i.e. writing on stone tablets), while others had a space-bias (i.e. writing on papyrus, which is easier to transport, but does not endure as long through time). He thought that  political changes were inherently related to changes in the dominant communication method. McLuhan believed technologies were extensions of our own bodies. The wheel is an extension of our feet, the camera is an extension of our eye, etc. He believed new technologies were subconsciously changing our behavior and habits. The idea that social media are curtailing our attention spans is certainly in line with McLuhan's thought. </p><p>While at the time I agreed with the consensus of my program, which was a curious one considering the above theorists worked in or were from Toronto, where my program was located, I can't help feeling different now. McLuhan came from a background in literature, and while he did design some experiments to prove his ideas, these experiments were fundamentally flawed in terms of validity and reliability. That itself, however, does not make him wrong. How else can one explain suddenly feeling unable to watch longer movies, or finish novels? How else can one explain the disparity between my memory of classrooms I learned in, and the classrooms of today, where students seem unable to listen or pay attention to anything without the quick edits and overly caffeinated delivery styles of social media influencers and their content? </p><p>While this is a lengthy digression, I see it as necessary to introduce my sum up of my reading experience. I consciously read more this year to try to reclaim my attention span. I picked longer books. I will pick my five favourite books from my reading this year to discuss, in no particular order. <br /></p><p>1.  <i>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</i>, by Carson McCullers. This is one of the classics of the Southern Gothic Fiction genre, one of my favourites. I don't know why, but the self-reflection of white authors in an area whose economy was entirely predicated on mass slavery just 175 years ago I find particularly compelling. I consider Faulkner, who also writes in this genre, the best novelist of all time for the simple reason he has written the most undisputed masterpieces (even if he himself considered one of them -- <i>The Sound and The Fury</i> -- a failure). I started reading this book in 2021, but I lost its thread and dropped it despite admiring the way it wove together the lives of five vividly drawn characters. The intersection of race and class in the novel is endlessly fascinating. Two of the characters, a Black doctor deeply respected by his community, and a poor white drifter, both harbour communist sympathies. The Black doctor and his son both suffer physical violence at the hands of law enforcement in the racist south. The centre of the novel is a deaf-mute, so this book was ahead of its time in terms of representing the disabled community. The four other characters each meet with this deaf mute to bare their souls, while he is mostly preoccupied with the loss of his gay lover and fellow deaf-mute to a family-led coerced commitment in an asylum over 200 miles away from him. </p><p>The other two main characters are Mick, a 13 year old girl (by the end of the book, she is at least 15), the daughter of a poor family forced to rent rooms to survive, one of which the deaf mute character, ironically named John Singer, occupies after his lover is committed. She dreams of composing music, but ends up relinquishing her dream at the end because of life's harsh realities. Finally, there is Biff, a restaurant owner whose gender identity seems somewhat fluid, whose wife dies of an illness. He/they (applying such pronouns to a character in a book published in 1940 seems anachronistic, but trust me, he's that) is the only one who realizes the extent to which the others are projecting their own dreams, hopes, fears, and desires onto John Singer, and the lack of reciprocity of understanding between Singer and the others. Despite being sympathetic in this regard, he struggles internally with a blatantly inappropriate romantic interest in Mick, who goes from tomboy to young lady during the course of the book. This is one of the qualities that make for the most compelling fiction: a very sympathetic character with a very terrible, unsympathetic secret. Fortunately, he never acts on it, and he lets it pass, as it eventually does. </p><p>John Singer is the only white man that Dr. Copeland can stomach, and one of the sources of tension in the book is how Jake Blount, the poor communist drifter, and Dr. Copeland never get to join forces to potentially collaborate to achieve their goals. When they finally meet, they have an all night tete a tete that culminates in a terrible quarrel over the role of the "race question" in the context of communist agitation. Soon after that, Jake ends up, through no fault of his own, in a race riot. He finds himself in the confusion on top of a dead black boy, one that Dr. Copeland grudgingly gave a scholarship-type award for best essay on how to uplift Black people in America. The newspapers blame the melee on "labor agitation" rather than the toxic race relations that are the residue of mass-slavery. That's his sign to leave town. Overall, it is a somewhat gloomy novel, but it has a very moving climax and denouement that rewards the reader who sticks with it. The characterization is superb. </p><p>2. <i>Crime and Punishment</i> by Fyodor Doestoyevsky. After reading <i>The Double</i> and <i>Notes From Underground</i>, the former of which reminded me slightly of William Godwin's <i>Caleb Williams</i>, and which feels like a nightmare, I had Doestoyevsky pegged as abnormal psychology, the novels. That is, his work seems obsessed with neurotic or psychotic characters. <i>Crime and Punishment </i>is not so different in this respect. However, whereas I had the urge to reduce his work to a one-trick pony kind of evaluation, I cannot claim otherwise than that this novel is a masterpiece. </p><p>The main character is Raskolnikov, a desperately poor student who kills a pawn broker, robs her, but refuses to dispose of the booty to his advantage. The psychological dance between him and the police, with whom he has regular contact after the murder, is masterful. One of the great things about this novel is the ambiguity of his motivation. We are given different possibilities, such as he robbed her in order to start his path into greatness, to become a Napoleon type figure, or that her social function as a parasite of the poor must be eliminated. However, a relative of the pawnbroker, one towards which he bears no ill-will finds him over the pawnbroker's dead body with a bloody axe in his hand. He kills her too. He expresses remorse over this murder, but never over the pawnbroker's murder. </p><p>*Spoiler Alert*</p><p>On the cusp of getting away with his crime finally and completely, he suddenly turns himself into the police and confesses his crime, inspired by the saintly figure of Sophia, a woman so destitute she turns to prostitution to support her family. All of a sudden this lengthy narrative turns into a Jesus allegory. He accepts his punishment, and starts a relationship with the Mary Magdalene figure of Sophia, who moves to the town in Siberia, where he serves his sentence of hard labor. The boldness and audacity of turning the story of a murder into a Jesus allegory is certainly admirable, as usually such allegories are heavy-handed and saccharine. </p><p>Stay tuned for the next three books in my next post, before the New Year!<br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2023/12/my-year-in-reading.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-6048554942620394494Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:22:00 +00002023-11-30T14:23:23.138-05:00fireworks; Toronto; skyline; Macaw; Parrot; Bird Kingdom; photographyOld Photos from the Files. . . <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeu0WMEzZuIS5GSka08aLxTF0CMOpSc2QYiDr9nhJbNoyC4sNi4xVsXrOZucGeLfl0OvXvgVwf-B9go9ivzMKsnPYLBDg_1OCPhqYanj9V6H1Lf7lAU1oFEudEaTZ-E4-OkM8Td9GU_haVffBcNUYNqD0Zzfx74hcIyjq2EM1T2kvVq_I9rmMcgw/s1277/WP_20160206_076.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Picture of a parrot (macaw) on a bare branch." border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="1277" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeu0WMEzZuIS5GSka08aLxTF0CMOpSc2QYiDr9nhJbNoyC4sNi4xVsXrOZucGeLfl0OvXvgVwf-B9go9ivzMKsnPYLBDg_1OCPhqYanj9V6H1Lf7lAU1oFEudEaTZ-E4-OkM8Td9GU_haVffBcNUYNqD0Zzfx74hcIyjq2EM1T2kvVq_I9rmMcgw/w400-h225/WP_20160206_076.jpg" title="Polly want a cracker?" width="400" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ECD1nK8K0Doy141gtinRg0831AgiEREPX5vsQsMm3asYdaXXGWEWoRhDWzFh0sgPewe1WdmjbFCPJl2F0C4-ZQ6Q8VwscMcLExWPnxyqkidNA_lvsawKmbD5NCR9uGcZsQvv5d0CzyDa9fMdMt9-i6sd7hB5B5lXycFk1dEofmJ3sZxDaSNZSQ/s1277/AdobePhotoshopExpress_61e8cfb67e74465aaa36ed06103e0ee2_jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="1277" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ECD1nK8K0Doy141gtinRg0831AgiEREPX5vsQsMm3asYdaXXGWEWoRhDWzFh0sgPewe1WdmjbFCPJl2F0C4-ZQ6Q8VwscMcLExWPnxyqkidNA_lvsawKmbD5NCR9uGcZsQvv5d0CzyDa9fMdMt9-i6sd7hB5B5lXycFk1dEofmJ3sZxDaSNZSQ/w400-h225/AdobePhotoshopExpress_61e8cfb67e74465aaa36ed06103e0ee2_jpg.jpg" width="400" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK1Om_qTSorTvJbCv1Qd0FYlQ6-KvZ3OjnzQnjdv5KhzJ6f9zDzrNm9m8PnSsSynAe5Eis42GGE-l9kiSNEIeSQuMLFUNI10MkI3lWAe-W1dMSsB99z85lgAt5R4N0kmm-2SzEuZxDPwEAZv2TVhuniq6Wb73wnmZT9JgMf8hNye4Sno3-tjjjIg/s1277/WP_20170522_007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="1277" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK1Om_qTSorTvJbCv1Qd0FYlQ6-KvZ3OjnzQnjdv5KhzJ6f9zDzrNm9m8PnSsSynAe5Eis42GGE-l9kiSNEIeSQuMLFUNI10MkI3lWAe-W1dMSsB99z85lgAt5R4N0kmm-2SzEuZxDPwEAZv2TVhuniq6Wb73wnmZT9JgMf8hNye4Sno3-tjjjIg/w400-h225/WP_20170522_007.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><br /></div><br /><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2023/11/picture-of-parrot-macaw-on-bare-branch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-499554451211452593Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:57:00 +00002023-11-18T17:10:25.422-05:00AI; Artificial Intelligence; Technology; EpistemologyArtificial Intelligence Tribulations<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p>I remain concerned about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on human knowledge, understanding, and cognition. Recently, I got a positive response to a story I submitted to a publication, with a request for a rewrite, one of the grounds of which included that I began the story <i>in media res</i>, in the middle of the thing. To them, it was too abrupt. I started with a bit of dialogue between a customer service representative and a customer. They wanted some contextualization of the main character's (the customer service representative) goals and motivations. </p><p>While the editor made some great suggestions about how to improve my story, I disagree on this particular point. I am a strong believer in the <i>in media res</i> technique to invite the reader to imagine the moments before and after the story, to involve them more. The clear cut beginning/middle/end school of fiction tends to dictate the world of the story, rather than invite the reader into it. These discussions are very closely connected to the distinction between story and plot, or in the words of narrative theorists such as Victor Shlovsky and Vladimir Propp, syuzhet and fabula. The syuzhet, or plot, is how the story appears on the page. It is not necessarily in chronological order; it does not necessarily have a clear cut beginning, middle, or end. There may be flashbacks, representations of simultaneity, flash forwards, etc. On the other hand, the fabula is the story in the reader's mind. It represents the reconstruction of the plot in chronological sequence. </p><p>Since I read narrative theory almost twenty years ago, in my defense of the beginning of the story, I wanted to refer to the distinction between syuzhet and fabula. As my memory can sometimes invert terms, I looked up the terms on Microsoft Bing's AI platform and came up with the following result: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5S177kBmz7HGVrW_CxxgPG4Vm_BzrVIQka_-JCSf_0okiCbakU7sRnb7glyMyCRoHqiKlUMgF0bbFzZF1RdPvXNnk7c7dX5EtH9OfX1ynp4jKxqquLpbKLI_fxtl765hu0bE5-vvzbqwjti7wEFRjnFgTCE-XAvDe6Y5at3VeE-KXQi-igCT9ig/s1366/Formalism.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5S177kBmz7HGVrW_CxxgPG4Vm_BzrVIQka_-JCSf_0okiCbakU7sRnb7glyMyCRoHqiKlUMgF0bbFzZF1RdPvXNnk7c7dX5EtH9OfX1ynp4jKxqquLpbKLI_fxtl765hu0bE5-vvzbqwjti7wEFRjnFgTCE-XAvDe6Y5at3VeE-KXQi-igCT9ig/w400-h225/Formalism.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>The text on the left and right contradict each other; the text on the right is simply wrong. Fabula is <i>not</i> the "thematic content of a narrative." Syuzhet refers to the plot on the page, <i>not </i>the "chronological sequence of events." Suppose I was a narrative theory novice. If I saw these contradicting accounts and chose the version on the right, I would be deeply misled, and potentially spread this falsehood further than just the encounter between this text and myself. The account on the left, which is the one most eyes not of the Arabic or Jewish world would encounter first, as Hebrew and Arabic are read right to left, is luckily accurate and correct. (This is not to say that bilingual Hebrew and Arabic readers would necessarily do that, but the potential for the assimilation of inaccurate information is higher for them). Therefore, the results of this search reveal the potential for the spread of misinformation is high with the use of this AI platform. <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2023/11/artificial-intelligence-tribulations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570477.post-1057725308107222038Sun, 05 Nov 2023 23:44:00 +00002023-11-07T10:52:29.469-05:00artpoetryI'm not here. <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInvisibleTruth" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p><p> </p><p>Socially incentivized mediocrity.</p><p></p><p>The stories that aren't yours to tell (all of them). <br /></p><p>Wearing out the welcome of everyone. </p><p>Testing the patience of the impatient. </p><p>We represent no one but ourselves; you can't fool me. </p><p>Blood is thicker than water, but soil is thicker still, thicker than thieves. </p><p>At least water gets around. I'm stuck here.  <br /></p><p>Wealth is an illusion. When everything costs money, it becomes the arbiter of freedom, not equal treatment under the law.  </p><p>These illusions have bars realer than steel. </p><p>The night is on fire.  <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUa4roUCNJKOnRBNuM0lonN2rcKtJCyyP-jH3gAB9C3iaUES13Y868AqcbNwGEbfV_6CxEsiazejL6FTS-uPBssv_u40yP7JkHosPtG_UXdIa0CkRO-jy_VcVDQf9PQ7uhgVS3rDtaCjnSYHojmG9c4Cl96viTEy3-aE7g-_3fCiF6THSwsjdHig/s1277/WP_20160102_013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="1277" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUa4roUCNJKOnRBNuM0lonN2rcKtJCyyP-jH3gAB9C3iaUES13Y868AqcbNwGEbfV_6CxEsiazejL6FTS-uPBssv_u40yP7JkHosPtG_UXdIa0CkRO-jy_VcVDQf9PQ7uhgVS3rDtaCjnSYHojmG9c4Cl96viTEy3-aE7g-_3fCiF6THSwsjdHig/s320/WP_20160102_013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>  <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>http://theinvisibletruth.blogspot.com/2023/11/im-not-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Trevor_Cunnington)0