"...the surface of the earth dreaming of spherical velocities inside otherwise undetectable stellar detonations"

Rooms of algebraic theology
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...kept back from the center of the fire, withdrawn from it once dead so that she could be examined for gender, put back in until ash, and thrown in the Seine

Baez warbled from the branches of a walnut tree Wednesday

How does "human plurality" relate to the music?

It’s a concept unique to the Mehinaku Indians, and expresses their understanding of humanity and their interaction with the outside world. For them, music is a perfect expression of this plurality: they consider every sound to be music – every stone falling, every arrow cutting through the air. There is no distinction between life and music.

To hear samples from the album 'Neuneneu'
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‘Neuneneu’ is the Mehinaku (inhabitants of the Central Brazilian Amazon) expression meaning ‘human plurality’. It is a unique concept of these people and goes some way to expressing their particular understanding of humanity and their interaction with the outside world.
There is no greater expression of this concept and of their spirituality than through the music generated by these extraordinary people. For this indigenous race, every single sound is considered music – a stone rolling or an arrow cutting the air. Sound is directly related to spirituality. There are no boundaries between real life and music. They are one.
Assembled together for the first time on a British stage, a group of five Amazonian Indians, resplendent in native costume, will perform specially composed pieces of music together with the consummate interpreter of Brazilian Indian music, Marlui Miranda, alongside the British virtuoso kora player Ravi.
The Brazilian composer, musician and singer Marlui Miranda has devoted her career to the study, research and development and protection of the Brazilian indigenous race.

Ravi

My family started in the sixteenth century, with a Jesuit and an Indian woman, in the state of Pará...

Maria-Brazil: Interview with Marlui Miranda
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Marlui Miranda at Calabash
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2 IHU Kewere: Rezar

The saci or saci-pererê is a fantastic creature from south-central Brazil. The saci is a little boy, has only one leg, wears a magical red cap and likes to smoke a pipe. According to the legend, he is always up to some mischief: blowing out your fire, scaring and scattering your cattle, and scaring travellers in isolated, out-of-the-way places.

Myths & Fantastic Creatures
Maria-Brazilxowe still reserve the right to be blatantly nepotistic, or disarmingly naive, or whatever strikes our fancy. Also, we're still a one-woman operation, so if things go at a slow pace, patience...patience...

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boa manhã Carolina Vigna-Maru!

On March 15, 1918, Wyman said to divers persons...in speaking of the atrocities reported to be committed by the German soldiers, that our soldiers would act in the same way and commit the same atrocities...and that soldiers of the U.S. Army are no better than the German soldiers.
Sentence: 6-12 years

The Montana Sedition Project
76 men and three women convicted of the crime of sedition in Montana in 1918 and 1919
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link Ultimate Insult

The tree that owns itself
Georgia's Virtual Vault

Photograph of members of a school softball team
Colquitt County, Georgia, 1949 (detail)

Digital Library of Georgia
part of the GALILEO Initiative

Human Terms
Kathleen Lynch
Verse Daily

A Crosstown Breeze

...we raced the rain
with baler and wagon

driving each other
to hold the turn

Henry Taylor
Poetry Daily

"With my lost saints"
Sonnet 43
Traquair, ibid.

Phoebe Anna Traquair's exquisite illustrated manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’
National Library of Scotland
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link the inimitable profuse and consistent BibliOdyssey

Ice Cream Sunday
Blair Kelly
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link path Rashomon

Terracotta statuette of an Eros (3rd c. BC).

Thrace the Land of Orpheus
Democritos University of Thrace

Sue Coe: The Last 11 Days

down the work shack

Barbarian defense:

...the really startling thing is that wooden roads built the same way and at the same time have been found across Europe, as far away as northern Germany. The Celts, it seems, were sophisticated road builders and the construction of these wooden roads was no mean feat of engineering.

Oak planks were laid on birch runners and they were built broad enough for two carts to pass each other. What’s more, Celtic road building is not necessarily predated by that of the Romans. The first important Roman road was the Appian Way, built in 312BC, but the so-called “Upton Track” in south Wales, a wooden road laid across the mudflats along the Severn estuary, dates back to the 5th century BC.

It is only now that historians are beginning to reassess the sophistication of Celtic science and engineering. From early times the Celts were the iron masters of Europe. A Celtic smith was regarded as a magician, a man who could take a lump of rock and transform it into a magical new substance — a cunningly worked steel blade sharp enough to cut through bronze or ordinary iron.

Terry Jones/TimesUK

Keith Moon's head revenant at Achewood

Higginbotham baby stays at home with negro nurse. Father and mother work in West Point Cotton Mill.
I found three families in this small settlement, that do this way.
Location: West Point, Mississippi

Lewis Hine, May 1911
LoC