la ramure des peupliers

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flore, le présent

J’aime les peupliers, leur ramure argentée, leur souplesse dans le vent, j’y ploie avec eux.

(journalsouslasurface, « Reviens quand tu es calmée »)

der Schein eines in der Nähe brennenden Hauses

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Bertolt Brecht, Dreißigjähriger Krieg, Feuer

Es war inzwischen Nacht geworden, aber der rote Schein eines in der Nähe brennenden Hauses erhellte den Hof, und entsetzt erblickte sie die übel zugerichtete Leiche des Hausherrn.

(Bertolt Brecht, ,,Der Augsburger Kreidekreis”, Kalendergeschichten)

a breast

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Joyce, skin

…shadows… the woods.
…white breast… dim…

(Ulysses, ch. 15)

the lights of a pianola

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Edwardian, Joyce, music

She drops two pennies in the slot. Gold pink and violet lights start forth. The drum turns purring in low hesitation waltz.

(Ulysses, ch. 15)

that which one had to wear to be credible

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70s, 80s, Birthday Party, Nick Cave, The Models

One had to wear only black, have only a rudimentary grasp of music and songwriting, and write tunes of great angst.

(James Valentine, ‘One trick pony’, ABC)

Simon Stephen Cardinal Dedalus’ soutane, sandals, and socks

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Catholicism, clothing, Joyce

His Eminence, Simon Stephen Cardinal Dedalus, Primate of all Ireland, appears in the doorway, dressed in red soutane, sandals and socks. Seven dwarf simian acolytes, also in red, cardinal sins, uphold his train, peeping under it.

(Ulysses, 15)

tissuepaper dimming the light of a chandelier

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décor, Edwardian, Joyce

A shade of mauve tissuepaper dims the light of the chandelier.

(Ulysses, ch. 15)

hair

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90s, category theory, hair

Of course, if X itself happens to be small, we still have two aspects: a property of indices is the same as a list of values h : I→ V for example, the map [(1, blond), (2, red), (3, blond), (4, black)] may be a record of composing two maps through some set X of actual people, whereby we sample I people among X, then observe their hair color; from this map alone (i. e. without further investigation, recorded by like maps) we can’t tell―and it might be crucial in a criminal investigation―whether the first and third persons were the same or merely had the same hair color.

(Lawvere & Schanuel, Conceptual Mathematics, Session 6.3)

the set of all people-eaters in the room

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category theory, monsters, sets, the present

Now the set A is… What shall I  say? Ah! The set of all purple people-eaters in the room, and B is as before

(F. W. Lawvere & S. H. Schanuel, Conceptual Mathematics, Session 2.4)

our sunsets

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climatology, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, sulfur dioxide, terraforming, the present, Wally Broecker

“Of course, that would make our sunsets very red, would bleach the sky, would make more acid rain,” he says.

(David Wallace-Wells, ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’, New York Magazine, 9 July 2017)