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7691 . a something of light . 20250123

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a something of a broken line, uncertainty

  I find myself at something of a loss for words, considering  ₁ a something of the subject gleamed across me, and a study of the situation,  ₂ a something of a hinge  ₃ —   a something of quiet satisfaction, a certain restfulness; at times  ₄ a something of restlessness, and a superfluity of energy; who should say   Oh, ye sins of omission, how great will be your catalogue  ₅ of which the titles might be with advantage exchanged, for the philosophical history a light romance, and the romance a heavy philosophy;  ₄   a something of romance? Its pulses die desperate. A something of.  ₆ But there was a something of more solid worth attached to them  ₇ — a broken line, a roughness of texture, and a something of uncertainty in  ₈

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1 “Edward Fairfax’s Timeless Classic A Brief History of Fuzzy Subsets : The Life of Edward Fairfax, Newly Revised ‘Hostile’ 25th Anniversary Edition, as edited by Canyon Frost... (2014?) : 40 / more 2 Musical and Personal Recollections During Half a Century. By Henry Phillips. Vol. 1 (of two); (London, 1864) : 84 / more 3 Tarik Kochi, “Recognition and Accumulation,” in Patrick Hayden and Kate Schick, eds., Recognition and Global Politics : Critical Encounters between State and World (2016) / more 4 William Alexander, D.D. D.C.L., The Epistles of St. John. Twenty-one Discourses. With Greek text, comparative versions, and notes, chiefly exegetical. (1889) : 141 / more 5 Conway Keith, Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before. Vol. 1 (of two); (London, 1859): 88 / more 6 Pastor and Prelate : A Story of Clerical Life by “Roy Tellet” (pseudonym of the Rev. Albert Eubule Evans) (1892) / more 7 ex R. Gibson (Delaware), “The Cattle Industry of Canada; How it has expanded,” in The Stockbreeder’s Magazine (1899) : 784-790 (788) / more 8 “The Art of Drawing” by T. Raffles Davison (“A paper read before the Liverpool Architectural Society on the 3rd inst.”) in The Builder (December 15, 1906) : 686-689 (689) / more

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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.

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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

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a something of one of many, as they please

  In the annexed drawing — a section — will be seen a something of one of these ₁ a something, of —         It would now show as tab fourteen, I’m told, of exhibit fifty-eight. ₂ — a something of several subjects ₃ a something of many qualities ₄ a something of weird, touched with a vague ₅ few words, a “something” of, slow-moving and quiet and soft-spoken, ₆ still more or less a something of this contradiction ₇ —         a kind of thing, a something of one kind at many times,         in one hand [m] part for holding ₈         one fiber per cc for asbestos ₂ — you will incur especially when you let spirits come as they please. ₇

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1 C. Bruce Allen, “Shakespeares’s ‘Inns’,” in The Art-Journal 13 (1874) : 325 / more 2 Lederer, cross-examination of Gyan Rahjans, in Proceedings, Royal Commission on matters of health and safety arising from the use of asbestos in Ontario. Vol. 42 A. (June 21, 1982) : 128 / more 3 “The Higher Education of Women in Sind,” by Miss T. V. Lakhani, M. A., Dip. Ed. (Joined College in 1922), in The Golden Jubilee Book of Dayaram Jethmal Sind College, Karachi. (1887-1937). Edited by Prof. L. H. Ajwani (Karachi, 1939) : 95-97 (96) / more 4 Second Chapter. The Judgement. in Hegel’s Doctrine of Formal Logic, being a translation of the first section of the Subjunctive Logic; with introduction and notes by H. S. Macran (Oxford, 1912; original text 1816) / more 5 “The Last Days of Edgar Allen Poe,” in Scribner’s Monthly 15 (March 1878) : 707-716 (707) / more 6 Virginia Cuppaige, in “Personal Abstraction, Four Painters’ Views,” artists talk (NYC, May 9, 1980), in Judy Seigel, ed., Mutiny and the Mainstream : Talk that Changed Art, 1975-1990 (New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 1992) : 168-171 / more 7 “Spiritualism through the World” (by R. B. H.), in Human Nature : A Monthly Record of Zoistic Science and Intelligence... No. 10 (London, January 1, 1868) : 606-622 (611) / more 8 Keith Allan, “On the semantics of cup,” in Helen Bromhead and Zhengdao Ye, eds., Meaning, Life and Culture : In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka (2020) : 441-460 / more

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“I’d been working on the index of an encyclopaedia, and later on a dictionary. This kind of work makes you feel light-headed, brainwashed, neutral, slightly dazed, as though you’d been smoking pot. The business of ranking words in alphabetical and arbitrary columns without any concession to sense, value, or category, produces a kind of occupational disease, a detachment that in its turn makes everything seem threateningly equal, meaningful or unmeaningful.”

Jennifer Dawson, her afterword to reissue of her The Ha-Ha (1961; 1985; Scribner 2025) : 175 : link

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  9232, 9233 . 20260326

. . . neither solid, liquid, nor aeriform ; a something of extreme tenuity ; imponderable, yet possessing some of the characters of materiality

ex M. Donovan, “On the supposed Identity of the Agent concerned in the Phaenomena of Ordinary Electricity, &c., &c.” in The Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (Fourth Series; February 1852) : more  

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a something of air, indigoish

                                                                  erode or fall away.                                                       a something of a lack   ₁                                             a something of air and also of expression   ₂                                   a something of depression in the air,   ₃                         to just give a sense a a; something;                 of air;, anyhow, for the scene’s sake.         indigoish also to blow a leaf, or a paper   ₄

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1 text cobbled together from preview snippet and “inside this book,” at Susan Brown, Development of a Mass Media School in Namibia: Feasibility, Demand, Curriculum, and Budget Estimate (1991) : 4 / more 2 A Domestic Experiment, by the author of “Ideala : A Study from Life” [Sarah Grand] (Edinburgh and London, 1891) : 9 / more 3 The Princess Virginia : A Romance of Royal Love By C. N. and A. M. Williamson (1907) : 280/ more 4 OCR cross-column construal involving “Two Letters from Gordon Craig relative to the production of Macbeth,” at The Mask 15 (Florence, Italy, 1929) : 18-20 (19) / more

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8273, 8275 . 20250723

This produced a something of a sound — an admixture of scratching and hissing... “Rub away, Bob! as much like water as you can.”

ex “The Strolling Player” by “B. W. W.” in The Players (“A Dramatic and Literary Journal. Conducted by Wilfrid Wisgast, M. A.”), (Saturday, August 11th, 1860) / more