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Œ is for Œdipean Riddle
You live in the house of two mothers immersed:
One births the other and the other births the first.
X≠Y≠Z: What is that?
Y: That one on the left looks dangerous.
X: The one on the right looks more joyful, but it’s a moody joy.
Y: Moody. Who are they? They’re staring and it’s creeping me out.
X: No, look, it’s fish.
Y: Is that fish?
Z: It’s something.
X: They can’t see us, those aren’t eyes.
Y: Aren’t they?
X: Oh wait, they’re reacting to us. Look, that one is scowling.
Y: Stop pointing at it.
X: Now this one is scowling, look at its eyebrows. Fins.
Y: Don’t point! Those are eyes and they can definitely see us.
Z: They aren’t paying attention to us at all. Think about a fish in a pond. A bunch of them. Carp.
Y: That’s not a carp. That’s a face.
Z: Face fish. Whatever. There they are in the pond, just beyond the surface of the water, we are inches from them, looking in, and they don’t … More
IO is for I/O
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COW
\d M
moo: “];” / 0: end loop
mOo: “p-:1;” / 1: dec mem ptr
moO: “p+:1;” / 2: inc mem ptr
mOO: “. M@(!M)@m p” / 3: eval
Moo: “.:[m p; M.OOM; M.oom];” / 4: read-write
MOo: “m[p]-:1;” / 5: dec mem
MoO: “m[p]+:1;” / 6: inc mem
MOO: “while[m p;” / 7: begin loop
OOO: “m[p]:0;” / 8: zero
MMM: “:[r~_n; r:m p; (r:_n;m[p]:r)];” / 9: save-load
OOM: “`0:,$m p;” / 10: write
oom: “m[p]:0$0:`;” / 11: read
\d ^
m:&10000; p:0; r:_n / set the stage
.,/M c@&(c:`$1_'(&c=*c)_ c:,/” “,/:0:_i 0)_lin!M / read, xlate, eval
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Everything is Temporary
I am so terribly sorry for your loss. I’ll be thinking about you and will light a candle. Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you in your time of grief, while you are in mourning, as you move through this tragic occasion, during your bereavement, it’s so hard to know what to say. You were alive for such a short time too. Eternity will feel much longer, trust me. What will you do now? Can you watch your people while they divide your stuff? Maybe you don’t want to see that. Making piles, what they keep for themselves or can sell, what they slip into a pocket when the other one isn’t looking. Donations by the door, lamps on the floor. Things going into garbage bags. It’s hard to watch. At least you seem to have people. So many die exiled in wretchedness and just imagine that clean … More
Octave
The rune carvers, the people who knew the Rune Poem by heart, probably sang it. There’s a lot of evidence for that, not to mention putting a story to music makes the retelling easier to remember. We can all sing along, others joining in where memory fails. Poetry has beats and rhythm and we sing ours too, but we don’t call it poetry when we do that. We have another word for that. Language takes all the music out of poetry. Language did not take language out of music.
Music has an alphabet of its own: the letters are notes. And these notes we arranged into groups of eight. Octaves. Take a note, think of a sound. It’s got a letter, but from such a short alphabet. Now hum it. Hum it steady, you sound terrible because you are not actually doing it out loud. Do it. There you go. Your note, that … More
