After-Ors #82
Sea levels are rising as the polar ice caps melt and now it’s clear why Republicans are in favor of global warming, it’s a form of gerrymandering. It destroys the Democratic coasts and drives disheartened Manhattanites westward to wander lost and confused in Ohio, their sophistication shredded, their street smarts useless…. I am rather benign about the Union of Righteous Republican States (URRS) that the rising seas will create. I face the prospect with equanimity, same as I face the prospect of a monsoon or…my laptop computer being crushed under the wheels of a truck
-- Garrison Keillor:
https://garrisonkeillor.substack.com/p/what-if-it-does-and-they-do
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A hidden haiku from a NYT story about Wasabi, a former dog show champion:
“Once a dog reaches
the pinnacle of success,
what does he do next?”
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People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gas between things.
-- 'Laurence Arne-Sayles', a character in the altogether remarkable novel Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
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One of the problems with travel is that once you start, you can’t get away from it.
— Thomas King, in his sweet hilarious wildly inventive novel, Indians on Vacation