Wednesday, November 23, 2005

List

1) A wrap of butcher paper.

2) A bicycle wheel.

3) A daguerrotype.

4) A $100 laptop enabled with Wikipedia access.

5) Seventeen Starburst wrappers in my outer left pocket.

6) An ad on a bus shelter: $100 off divorce.

7) A leg of lamb.

8) The last stanza of the Adonais by P. B. Shelley.

9) A stack of milk crates three deep.

10) A rusty wok clattering in the street.

11) A pile of removed hardwood floor.

12) $100 says the price tag on a new winter coat.

13) The awesome syncretic power of a Wikipedia article on Greco-Buddhism.

14) A bloody lancet on the street.

15) The argumentative themes of Bach's fugues.

16) Digital art.

17) The book of Earth written in the rocks.

18) An eyedropper containing $100 worth of antibodies.

19) Braces welded into a chain-link fence.

Consider: "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

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