"Till now, he has never properly understood the phrase Calling into a Void,-… Here however, in the form of this priapick Ear, is the Void, and the very anti-Oracle - revealing nothing as it absorbs ev’rything. One kneels and begs, one is humiliated, one crawls on."
(Mason & Dixon, 179)
Plays on SS in Gravity’s Rainbow
second sheep, 3, 555; sour smell, 3, 171; “cast-iron pulleys whose spokes are shaped like Ss” 4; saddleback sows, 5; split second 7, 199; sour stomach, 17; Selena. Selena., 30; speedy stalk, 35; 3-sigma, 40, 523, 635, 709; systematic stealth, 42; soft smell, 43, 754; separate straws, 43; stray shadow, 49; silverblue stalks, 54; silver string, 59; silver seeds, 63; smooth sinewaving, 67; silk stockings, 74, 211, 395, 410, 629; shadowy smells, 78; stronger stimulus, 79; structured stimulus, 82; spilled sand, 91; simple sorrow, 98; sugar-smears, 99; soft-wood smells, 106; snow-skin, 107; slate shadows, 108; southern stars, 109; steel snake, 109; smoky spires, 111; starving spring, 111; soap-heavy smell, 112; sunlit shops, 119; spiral stairways, 122; sour salt, 124; spider-statistician, 124; sound stimuli, 125; soap spots, 125; small stitches, 126; snow-sky, 128; steam smells, 132; seasonal swell, 132; semi-detached Sunday, 132; shiny suits, 133; snowy soot, 138; sheet steel, 139; “sibilant weave” 152; single subculture, 153; swampy suburbs, 160; Sunday strolls, 162; squeak-stockinged slavegirl, 168; slime stone, 169; scratched silver, 186; shaking Slothrop, 187; Slothrop staggering, 187; sudden shrewdness, 188; silent sea, 195; “S’d against the S of himself” 198; social sense, 206; “Old Norse rune for S” 206; study sessions, 211; slack-jawed subalterns, 212; sensitive son, 215; simultaneous stimuli, 226; ssörrender, 230; starch shirt, 232; star shell, 233; sovereign smell, 235, 736; Slothropian space, 238; sad story, 238, 285, 445, 667; self-sufficiency, 240; sour stuff (oxygen), 240; Esso, 240; stiff shirts, 243; secret service, 244; sea-steps, 245; 454: setting sun, 253, 454; striped socks, 254, saddle stitching, 254; sun-black skiers, 258; somber street, 259; senseless screaming, 263; spy-sign, 263; south sea, 266; stumbling surrender, 271; sexual sigh, 272; Slothropian stars, 272; salt sea, 273; stainless steel, 274; suspicious stare, 274; spy system, 286; sad surprise, 289; tunnels, 299; double-integral sign, 300-01; “Summe, Summe” 300; static space, 301; “Double integral is also the shape of lovers curled asleep” 302; scorched skullcap, 304; silk spill, 314; shadow states, 315; scientific speculating, 317; simple steel, 324; shining steel, 325; scarlet silk, 332; Soviet state, 349; sea story, 351; secret spaces, 354; scientist-surrogate, 361; staring sun, 372; smiling sentry, 378; suspended storm, 378; stenciled signs, 380; S-curve, 380; steel spaces, 384; sea-squirm, 389; subjective sense, 389; silver sponge, 389; soup-stock, 389; sentimental side-trip, 393; social spectrum, 402; stormy shore, 409; double-summing, 411; second shadow, 424; string shadows, 436; southern slop, 442; spring-suspension, 446; sound stages, 446; stud service, 446; S-curved spokes, 450; sailors’ superstitions, 450; Scatotechnic Snipes, 451; sun suits, 453; star streaks, 457; suspender straps, 466; satin straps, 469; summer spook, 472; silver stork, 486; salty snot, 492; smooth stones, 494; sweet smile, 496; sleepy summer, 505; steel smile, 512; serpentine slagheap, 520; silver stars, 530; slippery satin, 531; Sickly Smile, 534; single set, 556; smalltown space, 556; Special Services, 558, 700; Shufflin’ Sam, 558; surveying stakes, 560; starch-colored sky, 564; “curving through the ogival opening” 573; silver streak, 583, 586; spherical soul, 583; State Street, 589, 591; “Yess, yess” 590; straw stomach, 596; soapy sponge, 603; “silver straw” 613; streamlined spires, 624; Slothrop surveillance, 630; ssem, 633; saffron spindles, 634; summer stillness, 639; sudden surprises, 643; sailor suits, 657; “screen-door salesman” 665; “the invisible SS” 666; straw space, 669; saucy sideways smile, 670; subdeb secretaries, 674; submarine skipper, 674; Sniveling Slothrop, 679; spirited salt, 684; Scatterbrained Suicidekicks, 691; Semlower Strasse, 692; Sound Shadow, 695, 711; Sentimental Surrealist, 696; suitable stimuli, 699; sandy streets, 700; sister ships, 715; snot soup (unter anderem), 715; still strata, 720; striving subcreation, 720; Subsequent Sin, 722; 729: silk scarf, 729; Spaceman Smile, 732; See also chess; Rossini
"Nature doesn’t speak to you unless you’re schizophrenic, but the novel does."
Fred Smoler (via slcteacherisms)
Reblogged from slcteacherisms with 4 notes
This week in Satyrica: Habbinas is asked what he had for dinner:
Dicam, inquit, si potuero; nam tam bonae memoriae sum, ut frequenter nomen meum obliviscar. Habuimus… betam et panem autopyrum de suo sibi, quem ego malo quam candidum; et vires facit, et cum mea re causa facio, non ploro.
“I should say, he said, if I will be able; for I have such a good memory that I often forget my name. We had… beats and whole-wheat bread, of it’s own kind, which I like more than white bread; for it makes one strong, and when I take a shit, I don’t cry out.”
eternal truths.
When I get into graduate school, I will get a tattoo of a ring, on the finger of a gigantic man, who lies dead inside a bronze horse with doors, at the bottom of a chasm, revealed by an earthquake accompanied by storms.
a true parliament
”if the awareness of the latent presence of violence in a legal institution disappears, the judicial institution decays. An example of this is presented by today’s parliaments. They present such a well-known, sad spectacle because they have not remained aware of the revolutionary forces to which they owe their existence.”
(Benjamin)
"If you want an omelette you have to break some eggs, and the eggs in question are 17th century European peasants."
Philip Swoboda (via slcteacherisms)
Reblogged from slcteacherisms with 4 notes
bro talk 2nd century BC
“Servvs: iamne ea fert ivguvm?
Advlecense: tam a me pudica est quasi soror mea sit, nisi si est oscvlando qvippiam ippvdicior.
Servvs: semper tv scito, flamma fvmo proxima;
fvmo combvri nil potest, flamma potest.
Qui e nuce nvcvlevm esse volt, fragit nvcem:
Qui volt cvbare, pandit saltvm saviis.
Advlescens: at illa est pvdica neqve dvm cvbitat cvm uiris.
Servvs: credam, pudor si quoiquam lenoni siet.”
“Slave: Is she already ‘broken-in’?
Youth: I say, to me she is as virginal as my sister should be, unless she is less chaste for a few kisses.
Slave: always keep in mind, smoke follows flame:
nothing can burn by smoke, fire can.
He who wants to eat a kernel from the nut, breaks the nut:
He who wants to lay, reveals the valley with ready lips.
Youth: But, that woman is chaste she never lays with men.
Slave: I would believe that, if virginity should ever be with pimps.”
- Plautus, the Curculio (The Weevil)
This is the first extant Latin author that we have. He also makes self referential jokes.
“Advlescens:Nvnc ara Veneris haec est ante horvnc fores;
inferre Veneri uoui iaientacvlvm.
Servvus: Qvid? te antepones Veneri iaicentacvlo?
Advlescens: me, te atqve hosce omnis.
Servvus: Tvm tv Venerem vomere vis.”
“Youth: Now, here is the temple of Venus before these doors; I have vowed to bring breakfast to Venus (Or: I vowed to offer myself to Venus as breakfast. The slave will purposefully misconstrue ‘me’ and ‘iaientavlvm’ as being in aposition).
Slave: What? You will place yourself before Venus as breakfast?
Youth: Me, you, and all of these people (to the audience).
Slave: Then you want Venus to vomit.”
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