a something of one of many, as they please
In the annexed drawing — a section — will be seen
a something of one of these ₁ a something, of —
It would now show as tab fourteen, I’m told, of exhibit fifty-eight. ₂ —
a something of several subjects ₃
a something of many qualities ₄
a something of weird, touched with a vague ₅
few words, a “something” of,
slow-moving and quiet and soft-spoken, ₆
still more or less a something of this contradiction ₇ —
a kind of thing, a something of one kind at many times,
in one hand [m] part for holding ₈
one fiber per cc for asbestos ₂ —
you will incur especially when you let spirits come as they please. ₇
sources
- C. Bruce Allen, “Shakespeares’s ‘Inns’,” in The Art-Journal 13 (1874) : 325
more - Lederer, cross-examination of Gyan Rahjans, in Proceedings, Royal Commission on matters of health and safety arising from the use of asbestos in Ontario. Vol. 42 A. (June 21, 1982) : 128
more - “The Higher Education of Women in Sind,” by Miss T. V. Lakhani, M. A., Dip. Ed. (Joined College in 1922), in The Golden Jubilee Book of Dayaram Jethmal Sind College, Karachi. (1887-1937). Edited by Prof. L. H. Ajwani (Karachi, 1939) : 95-97 (96)
more - ex Second Chapter. The Judgement. in Hegel’s Doctrine of Formal Logic, being a translation of the first section of the Subjunctive Logic; with introduction and notes by H. S. Macran (Oxford, 1912; original text 1816)
more - “The Last Days of Edgar Allen Poe,” in Scribner’s Monthly 15 (March 1878) : 707-716 (707)
more - Virginia Cuppaige, in “Personal Abstraction, Four Painters’ Views,” artists talk (NYC, May 9, 1980), in Judy Seigel, ed., Mutiny and the Mainstream : Talk that Changed Art, 1975-1990 (New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 1992) : 168-171
more - “Spiritualism through the World” (by R. B. H.), in Human Nature : A Monthly Record of Zoistic Science and Intelligence... No. 10 (London, January 1, 1868) : 606-622 (611)
more - Keith Allan, “On the semantics of cup,” in Helen Bromhead and Zhengdao Ye, eds., Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka (ANU Press, 2020) : 441-460
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aside —
“I’d been working on the index of an encyclopaedia, and later on a dictionary. This kind of work makes you feel light-headed, brainwashed, neutral, slightly dazed, as though you’d been smoking pot. The business of ranking words in alphabetical and arbitrary columns without any concession to sense, value, or category, produces a kind of occupational disease, a detachment that in its turn makes everything seem threateningly equal, meaningful or unmeaningful.”
ex Jennifer Dawson, her afterword to reissue of her The Ha-Ha (1961; 1985; Scribner 2025) : 175 : link
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