asfaltics @asfaltics - Tumblr Blog

9572, 9573 . 20260718

a something of Weave (see Weft), Geutu

and “puttering” over lines ₁ slackened chain in the puttering current ₂ drifting in ash; Just a puttering ₃ Yet he had woven a something of ₄ Zacyl / Weave (see Weft) Altuz / and again Koimi / made a mess (of it) Zadsu / irregularly woven Zadua / loosely woven Zaegm / unevenly woven Zaehp / weaving faults Zaeit / weaving twist Jraps / worsted list Zaekq / what is weave of cloth (see Thread) ₅ I fumble with the codes. ₆ Geutu / what does failure involve

—

sources

1 ex transcript of an interview with poet Emily Skillings, at Third Saturday Poesy Café, September 21, 2019; Presenter : Tom Corrado. p16 / putterings 623 2 ex David Berman, “The New Idea,” in Actual Air : Poems (1999) : 71-73 (73) / putterings 622 3 Robin Robertson, “Feeding the Fire,” in A Painted Field (1997; 1999) : 42 / putterings 625 4 ex Edward H. Read, his “The Book of the Month” review of Harvey O’Higgins’s Distinguished Americans in The Bookman 56:6 (February 1923) : 756-759 (758) / more 5 Max. M. Kay, comp., Kaytex Code. “A Code that can be used for any business, but is particularly useful to Exporters and Importers of Textiles, whether Piece Goods or Yarns.” (Manchester, 1926) 6 Lisa Robertson, Riverwork (2026) : 29 “I felt I was bathing in this textile language...” (p214)

—

all a something of’s and putterings, their derivations different formatting of the above, at asfaltics 2986

#ash #failure #lines #a something of #derivation2 #telegraphic codes #Lisa Robertson #Emily Skillings #David Berman #Robin Robertson #Edward H. Read

9556, 9558-9560 . wolkenwall, Miro fecit . 20260713

#clouds #walls

9538 . 20260707

a something of a needle match to mere

If no real solution can square up we touch it for putting a stop to after all be found, A something of a needle match, to mere wet face, and a few days before be soothed. persistent holding, while at Liverlosing an object lesson fall into line again Sowe sing forward Done be a getting over this obstinacy Of course, turns out the poisons which prevent This Many years ago the Hazel at the gate that a small tin of downfall should do this. Maybe they will come up again on AI at Hazel with the way the C post their claim; enclosing a copy.

—

ex OCR cross-column (and other) confusions, involving “Butcher’s Boy Who Became A Trainer,” (“Racing With the Lid Off”) by Larry Lynx; “Whispers from All Corners,” by Tee Em; “The Battle of the ‘P’s’” by Ringsider; “Blackpool Come Back with a Rush” by Long Acre; several advertisements; and sundry race results at The People (Sunday, November 14, 1943) : 7 via archive.org : link

the above from a longer selection at asfaltics 2967.

—

all a something of’s

#a something of #needles

a smudge is a smudge, a something of

Say what you will, a few words here on texture ₁ a something of the end of the nineteenth century a taste of our quilts weave, a review of accom song ₂ a “something” of, thereby, where before it was a no-thing or mere ₃ smudge ₁ the exception; the rule. ₄ a smudge is a smudge. ₁ a something of a nondescript, more the various toning methods of old ₄ she dimly saw a something, of strange shape and scarcely ₅ a something of wrong in it, even. ₆ Do men who know their power know wherein it consists? ₇

—

sources :

1 “Doubtful Tendencies,” by Horace Mummery, in The British Journal of Photography 46:2058 (October 13, 1899) : 646-648 (paragraphs 4 and 14) / more 2 OCR cross-column misread at Elly Sienkiewicz, Baltimore Beauties and Beyond : Studies in Classic Album Quilt Appliqué (1989) : 4 / more 3 author, title, even date unknown, from snippet ex Meaning and Interpretation : Lectures Delivered Before the Philosophical Union of the University of California (1950) : 152 / more 4 “On Things in General,” by “Free Lance,” in The British Journal of Photography 46:2026 (March 3, 1899) : 132-133 / more 5 Florence Warden, No. 3 The Square (London, 1903) : 83 / more 6 William H. Hotchkiss, “Bankruptcy and Preferences a la Mode,” in The Rand McNally Bankers’ Monthly 22:4 (Chicago, October 1901) : 349-353 (351) / more 7 [Emily Jolly (1834-1917)], Entanglements : A Romance, Vol. I (of two); (London, 1862) : 123 / rather more

—

all a something of’s

#a something of #bankruptcy #entanglements #on things in general #smudges #Horace Mummery #Elly Sienkiewicz #Free Lance #Florence Warden #William H. Hotchkiss #Emily Jolly

9531 . distant battles . 20260705

another, beneath/behind where once a desk, upon which countless lost hours of computer game battles

#walls #sons

9525 . contrast +30 . 20260705

#walls #euan

9501 clearing a room, ancient loessian surfaces, uniqlo substrate 20260701

—

all tagged dust all tagged loess

#aside #dust #loess

9497 various, found pieces of iron, ceramic book (Tetsuya Kinouchi ca 1995) oil infused piece of Signal Hill (California) obscure tool* (Meredith Morten ca 2011) 3-holed brick, & a brickbat three birds, one Gromit nuts, bolts

—

* later identified as “VSC7_VT11, stoneware, wood fired / heavy reduction” 20260630

a something of a somebody

evidently once a Something of a Somebody, very calmly Too much all-aloney on the prairie — mad. In some ways the prairie was a Sargasso Sea, where wrecks lay drowned forever. The theory of relativity reaches far — water can become a passion.

—

ex “Bad Lands” — “The Story of a Brush with Death” (on first page), and/but “A story of love in the desert” (at ToC) — by Henry Wallace Phillips, pictures by Frank Hoffman, in Liberty 6:2 (January 19, 1929) : 66-68, 71-74 more : link

all a something of’s

#a something of #Henry Wallace Phillips #water #theory of relativity

9470, and two “Familiar Phrases,” ex Willard B. Bottome, in collaboration with William F. Smart, The Stenographic Expert for Isaac Pitman Shorthand Writers (1910; new and enlarged edition, 1914) : 59-75 NYPL copy/scan (via hathitrust) : 62

20260623

#muffler #side of the road

whether or not it (and about twenty others)

9447-9450 the back of deacidification that didn’t happen. 19711011; 20020930; 20260621

#ruination

more “Conflicting Words,” from Willard B. Bottome, in collaboration with William F. Smart, The Stenographic Expert for Isaac Pitman Shorthand Writers (1910; new and enlarged edition, 1914) : 37-46 NYPL copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link

it was something to do with “needles” (still in progress), that led here, initially to “endless needless needles.”

isolated terms, printed out, photographed in indifferent light.

20260619

#conflicting words #needles #squiggles

from “Conflicting Words,” Willard B. Bottome, in collaboration with William F. Smart, The Stenographic Expert for Isaac Pitman Shorthand Writers (1910; new and enlarged edition, 1914) : 37-46 NYPL copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link 20260618

#conflicting words #squiggles

a something of adrift, a draft

There is a new fiber, a something of cedar in ₁ a ‘something’ of red dust than the ‘nothing’ of holiness, I’d rather have ₂ and still with a something of mellowness. There is a combination of soft salmon pink, “picked out,” to use the common phrase. ₃ The walls are mostly bare, with a few items that change regularly — ₄ neither Souls nor Bodies; they are no more than the faithful Shadows of themselves, a Something of too refined and subtle a Nature to be touched — ₅ The wall is a something of a sketchbook for me, ₄ a something of linen or woollen to cover the straw on which they lie, ₆ a something of nearly transparent linen and lace that started somewhere round ₇ in the sea of words submerged. A something of small account at any time; of no account at all when it comes to ₈ ‘A Something else thereby’; ‘A something of Four’ ₉ how language is such a dust ₁₀

—

sources

1 Ernest Hartsock on Louis Untermeyer his Burning Bush (1928), in Bozart 1:6 (Atlanta, Georgia; July-August 1928) : 17 / more 2 Catherine Dai, Under the Phoenix Tree (1990) : 176 / more 3 Rosamund Marriott Watson, The Art of the House (London, 1897) : 16 / more 4 interview with Peter Hall, in feature on same, in Marc Valli and Richard Brereton, eds., RGB : Reviewing Graphics in Britain (2010) : 268-273 (269) / more 5 “Supplement to the Dissertations on the Religion of the Banians,” in Bernard Picart, Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Idolatrous Nations; together with Historical Annotations, And several Curious Discourses Equally Instructive and Entertaining. Vol. IV. Part II. (London, 1733) : 90 / more 6 Poor Inquiry, Ireland Appendix E : Containing Baronial Examinations Relative to Food, Cottages and Cabins, Clothing and Furniture, Pawnbroking and Savings Banks, Drinking [supplement to] (Parliamentary Papers, v. 32; London, 1836) : 104/ more 7 Bart Spicer, The Wild Ohio (Bantam Giant A1211, 1954) : 83 / more 8 “The Training of Engineers,” in The Engineer (August 18, 1899) : 170 / more 9 Michael Cotsell, on titles contemplated for what would be Quartet in Autumn (1977) in his chapter “Language and Loneliness : The Late Novels” of Barbara Pym (1989) : 122 / more 10 Lisa Robertson. Riverwork (2026) : 36 / more

—

all a something of’s

#a something of #dust #linen #shadows #Bernard Picart #Poor Inquiry #Rosamund Marriott Watson #The Engineer #Ernest Hartsock #Bart Spicer #Michael Cotsell #Barbara Pym #Catherine Dai #Peter Hall #Lisa Robertson

9395, 9396 . weathered ends . 20260609

#husks

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs

asfaltics