from The Hawthorne Effect
When you torture people you get bad information. A big
yellow taxi. It was a formal decomposition: linear elements followed
each other
like parallels and distorted the object. More Brainless in Brooklyn
than
Sleepless in Seattle. A new juvenile body buds off and swims away. Go
ahead:
call it a comeback. After the Lisbon earthquake they rebuilt the city
with wide
streets and open plazas, using a framework of crossed wooden beams and
metal
tie bars to resist future shocks. An early morning drive to the East
End docks.
The Pope is breathing on his own but has been told not to speak.
Boscastle
pixie shop washed away in the flood. The hunt rode out with a full pack
of
hounds. Each sentence is complete; it gives pleasure every day, every
other
day. In practical science, bad theories have a short life. I found them
to be
magnetic, disagreeable, yet strangely sympathetic characters.
Phoenicians
lived on the coast in today’s Lebanon, north of Israel, and invented
alphabetic
writing. How are we to resist the fear-mongering rhetoric of the far
right? The
first man in Chicago to ride a bicycle, first to have his portrait
painted by
Whistler. They were jagged paths to multicultural education. A whole
planet
system, using the active processes of plants and animals as component
parts.
Total absence of good or bad taste. Animals can still be starved,
slowly
poisoned, burned, deliberately infected, maimed, electrocuted and brain
damaged
in the name of research. A toy tank transporter carried the latest and
most
powerful tank. A person without identity struggles to maintain a
memory.
Remember when domestic violence was a familiar experience. Buying land
is a
real statement of intent. Think of a sentence peacefully. We are
creating and sustaining
scarcity.
The mountains
are temples of living Dharma. If hot coffee (for instance) is poured
into a
plastic cup, these animal derived chemicals come to the surface and
combine
with the drink. Home sign isn’t handed down, it’s re-invented each time
it’s
needed. A squirrel runs across the windowsill and down the lower roof.
A town
in Ukraine, near the reactor, abandoned for nearly twenty years. The
head
teacher took my hand at the zebra crossing on Stockwell road. A luxury
cruise
ship called Spirit under rocket
attack from pirates, one hundred miles off the coast of Somalia.
Winston
Churchill liked to get his decisions down on paper. The car was parked
beyond
the pedestrian border crossing, back in the first world.
There are
sixty errors that affect the sense in each new edition. How do you feel
about
soft touch plastic? Google noticed the priority of links people built
up and
the text gathered around those links: think about it.
This black British farmer never saw the
countryside until he was eighteen. The air is invisible, almost
intangible,
unless you look at it from space. Condensation obscures the landscape.
Twenty-eight thousand French cars burnt in small-scale riots. Feeling
mostly
content with form. Schwitters could no longer move around the column to
work,
it took over his living space. The moon had been made to jump over the
cow in a
world of superabundance and excess.
Most music
critics ignore musical anxiety. She received a box from Iraq, filled
with her
son’s belongings. Intelligent design posits that nature cannot explain
life’s
complexity. Shoes piled under a radiator, coats hang above. Horizontal
movements of the pelvis during walking are more complex than vertical
movements, since they involve both rotation and tilt. I’m sweeping wet
leaves
when a white van stops and the driver offers tree pruning. What would
happen if
a machine admitted the possibility of accident or non-repetition; are
these
exclusively human attributes? The middle ground between family therapy
and
legal bargaining.