putterings, (shadows) of intention
Streaked grey walls,
end of hope;
A broken down car, a man
puttering; Mud everywhere. ₁
morass of indecision
a puttering with things just about done. ₂
Tar Sands were known,
some puttering with extraction processes,
but for the most part it was
‘miles and miles of just miles and miles.’ ₃
miles of hills away ₄
moved to imitate the puttering mud
rhymes and spells and orders timed to ₅
(shadows) of intention. ₆
In the last minutes of light the last puttering ends ₄
sources :
- “Auto Camp,” by Jack Parsons, January, ’31
in The Guard and Tackle Annual, “Published by the Associated Students of The Stockton High School” (Stockton, California; June 1931) : 48 / more at putterings 611 - Lynde C. Steckle, Problems of Human Adjustment (1949; Revised edition, 1957) : 57, 367 / more at putterings 612
- Peter Larkin, “Science and the North : An Essay on Aspirations,” in Northern Transitions Vol. II, Second National Workshop on People, Resources and the Environment North of 60°. Robert F. Keith and Janet B. Wright, eds. (Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, Ottawa, Ont., 1978) : 119-127 (120) / more at putterings 615
- Teri Lynn Imus, “The Home Place” in Plains Song Review 1 (1999) : 58-60 / more at putterings 616
- Dorothy Dunnett, To Lie with Lions; vol. 6 of the eight-volume series The House of Niccolò : (1996) : 58-60 / more at putterings 617
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Grammar; edited by Rush Rhees, translated by Anthony Kenny (1974) : 146
“But when we step outside intention, they are mere patches on a canvas, without life and of no interest to us. When we intend, we exist among the pictures (shadows) of intention, as well as with real things.”
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