Telluride. Tellus. Telos.

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An even murkier case of word-shifting (following on from 'Decimate ...' previously). Thomas Pynchon, born 1937 (now 76): Photographs from late 50's early 60's.   1958-1964 Slow Learner (1984) 1963 V. 1966 The Crying of Lot 49 1973 Gravity's Rainbow 1990 Vineland 1997 Mason & Dixon (featuring 'tellurick') 2006 Against the Day (featuring Telluride Colorado) 2009 Inherent Vice 2013 Bleeding Edge (If someone finds value in this please tell me. I can't, yet.)
From the OED: Tellus : (from Latin 'earth') the goddess of the earth in Roman mythology; hence, the earth personified; the planet Earth, the terrestrial globe tellurium : (from Tellus) one of the rarer elements, a tin-white shining brittle substance, formerly from its outward characters classed among the metals, but in its chemical properties and relations belonging to the same series as sulphur telluric : derived from or containing tellurium telluric : of or belonging to the earth, terrestrial; pertaining to the earth as a planet; also, of or arising from the earth or soil [this next far-fetched leap from a seriously fragile & tenuous spring-board] telos : (from Greek 'end') end, purpose, ultimate object or aim teleology : the doctrine or study of ends or final causes, especially as related to the evidences of design or purpose in nature; also transferred sense of design as exhibited in natural objects or phenomena telomere: the compound structure found at the end of a chromosome in eukaryotes, having only one spindle pole
Telluride, Colorado: Alas, there is no Telluride in Telluride and never was. Like the rest of America it is fictional. It has now become a year-round resort, comparable to say, Rancho Mirage, used by the likes of the Koch brothers and Barack & Xi Jinping, or ... Disneyland. The prostitute fell in love with the congressman: I want to take you away from this life.   Or consider distance: miles, kilometres ... leagues:

 

All this to love and raptures due. Must we not pay a debt to pleasures too? (No conscious fakery here. The Rochester quote comes to me from an episode of 'Inspector Morse', a TV show.)

 
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Could be worse.

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Eyjafjallajokul, Iceland, 2010: Two of my father's jokes: I had no shoes and I complained until I met someone who had no feet. I was down and out when a little bird sang into my ear, "Cheer up. Things could be worse." So I cheered up, and sure enough - things got worse. A-and Musak® this time too:

 

Feliz esta alma que vive comigo, que vai onde eu sigo o meu coração. A happy soul that lives with me, and goes where I follow my heart. Virginia Rodrigues, 'Alma'. Down here next to me in this lonely crowd is a man who swears he's not to blame. All day long I hear him cry so loud, callin' out that he's been framed. Bob Dylan, 'I shall be released'. I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet but I hear him coughing all night long. Leonard Cohen, 'Tower of Song'. And you know something's happening but you don't know what it is. Bob Dylan, 'Ballad Of A Thin Man'.

 

Malvados on depression: Love is the basis of any relationship. It's a sacred temple ... ... made of sand.   Sunday night dreams: I am stuck in a hole. My shrink appears with a rope ... ... and hangs himself.   Poetry is food for the soul. Sex is too. But you don't have to lie to be nourished by poetry.   What did I say about her before? Resourceful & self-possessed was it? She seems to have given up gloves, a-and her blog - and has gone acting in a sitcom, 'The Couple' (you can find clips & blurbs on YouTube). Of course it's just an Internet fantasy, a temperament imagined & projected (and in New York yet!), an imaginary friend. I guess it's human nature to try and make things whole, even fantasies. So ... to resourceful & self-possessed add: strong, substantial, admirable ... gorgeous (glorious?) ... alive, young ... ... did I say young already? Anyway, here she is again - Miss Numa Perrier: Bonus extra - too strange to pass up: Doesn't look Photoshopped ... could be ... even so.   ... He must be good in bed.

 
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Reprise.

[Reprise: resumption (after it is well over & done with).]

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Haiyan aka Yolanda hits the Phillipines: I just can't seem to get this press release out of my head, flummoxed: “Canada applauds the decision by Prime Minister Abbott to introduce legislation to repeal Australia’s carbon tax. The Australian Prime Minister’s decision will be noticed around the world and sends an important message. “Our government knows that carbon taxes raise the price of everything, including gas, groceries, and electricity. Prime Minister Abbott has said that, in Australia, the repeal of the carbon tax will reduce the average household’s cost of living by (in Australian dollars) $550 a year, take $200 off household power bills and $70 off gas bills. “Our government has reduced greenhouse gas emissions while protecting and creating Canadians jobs – greenhouse gas emissions are down since 2006, and we’ve created 1 million net new jobs since the recession – and we have done this without penalising Canadian families with a carbon tax.”   Statement by Paul Calandra, MP for Oak Ridges—Markham and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, on behalf of Stephen Harper & the Government of Canada, November 12 2013.      (... or, 'She's come undone' as the Guess Who so eloquently sing in a completely unrelated context.) If it were just total failure on the environment ...                     ... but it's not - it's the whole fucked up shitteree:   Mensalão was judged by exception. They made an exception of me. That Dirceu is in jail (sort of) while Lula is out walking around makes the entire judgement a nonsense. How could Lula not have known what was going on? The place where private and public meet. (A Brazilian hot-sheets motel is pictured - ubiquitous on Brazilian highways. Maybe this is the very one that Dirceu will be earning his 20,000 R$ per anum in while he 'serves' his sentence.) Miss Numa Perrier (again): ... and a few more next time maybe.

 
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