Inquiry

An office of the unguarded arts.

A Caption with Austen on Nothing

"Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened by subject – having nothing at all to say – there shall be no check to my genius."

Zwicky apposes to the Austen quote
a keyword of communicative competence:

"The advantage of having nothing to say."

It's amazing how florid a caption can be
when it's notional.

For all the world positioned
as if to advantage.

"The roses were displayed to advantage in a blue vase."

As with the subject –
as if with the subject –
emphasis added.

Culture

Clover or abandonware?

Propinquities

• Its intimacy is unattributed.
• It's intimacy that is unattributed.
• Its intimacy is that it is unattributed.

Further Theories on the Graph

Sadness is wasted on the beautiful. Indifferent to its own capacity, beauty absorbs sadness as if a dispensation.

Beauty is an urelement; it seeks companions, but cannot commit to be compromised.

Sadness is a reduction.

Beauty often volunteers, but rarely communicates.

The moment of the beautiful cannot be depleted, and the career of sadness is toward depletion.

Sadness fails to individuate. Its transitive force exhausts itself in beauty's distended hypothesis, which is unanswerable, save for the wasting challenge of time.

Beauty has too few concerns, whereas sadness is always evidential.

The beautiful is wasted on the sad, who seek closure. But beauty, forever eligible, incapable of losing, it has an open face –– occupying space without a wasting rhyme.

Where sadness and beauty intersect, all action stops.

Node Failures

• The transitive relationship between sadness and beauty is refutation.

• Reachability: beauty and sadness each fails to disclose it.

Logistics

That freedom is known as transport while contingency is known as carrying.

I have carried this image to you for so long. 

It has transported me to a human element.

Conditionals

'Sustainability' suggests permeable defenses, occulted valor and melancholy.

It's like the final opiate light ebbing in Altman's McCabe & Mrs Miller.

Gatherings

A thin, crimped stuff –– occasional friendship.

On the Partisan & Propositionality

Char, Leaves of Hypnos: "Brighten the imagination of those who stammer instead of speaking, who blush the moment they assert something. These are steadfast partisans."

Foundations of Stuttering: [on "utterances having low propositional substance"] Many sources have reported that no stuttering occurs in recitative speaking at various assemblages, such as in certain church rituals. In effect, such performance is choral speaking. Stutter is also said to not be evident in even solo performances of, for instance, the Lord's Prayer, or the Pledge of Allegiance. Regarding this latter group of examples, it should be clear that the propositional value of such expressions is minimal, and that rehearsal and practice must play a crucial role.

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Proposing that the partisan has no need of speech.