some prose bits

of enlightened picnics

a picnic he said its like a picnic where the writer brings the words and the reader brings the meaning. he said it was like a picnic and bohme and blake and swedenborg brought the words and johnny appleseed brought a bushel and the rest of us brought the meaning. thats just what he said. he said it just like that. of course he said it he would know that gottingen has many lovely picnic spots a few even around his monument of course only for a moment around his monument but a picnic is a picnic is a picnic. so he might call it a monumomental occasion. for a picnic he said it was just like a picnic and i suppose of course he would know all the trash he picks up in his trash books. of course the anglo-german enlightenment in one man would know all about trash. and picnics. concerning the franco-german enlightenment well they were less about picnics he didnt said much about their entertainments. but as far as picnics are concerned he said and of course he knew that one requires: a monumomental spot, a blanket, a basket, fruit, vegetables, meats, breads, drinks and liquers, company, the sun, positively and negatively charged ions, ready wit, anecdotage, spare time, a date, milk and milk products and ice-cream, an enemy, an anemone, grass, sighs, ants, condiments or at least mustard, fruits of the sea, a frisbee, coolade, pants or skirts, a joke book, a laptop, a pen, angels to dance on the head of said pen, a camera, a dog, a camel if you are a bedouin, a ukelele, a dictionary-lexicon-wertherbook.

caesura

wen hui his cook whose knifed inimitably aimed avoiding bones by his knife-hand could and would carve oxen rather than oxenstirn allowing all the knotty bits to fall earthward. what a cutter. there is to be made here an analogy to the process (dao) of composition and the razor of composition by analysis. through his very cutting this inimitable cooks knife guided by his knife-hand remained sharp for decades. now we know that it is not the knife the nor the cutter nor the concentration skill nor the tenderness of oxen (that would be an oxymoron) that kept the knife sharp and the joints and steaks a comin it was rather something else. now this something is to be found in else and that else was his sticking to the definitions of speech namely phonemes. the only proper name in the whole business belonged to wen hui and when he was delighted with the process of the cook in his butchery of whole oxen. in this way butchery is sanctioned when it serves the purposes of parsing parsimony and parts of the whole are divided without blunting the knife.