Chrasmologic

Allan Anderson · 08 Jan 2009, 00:30 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: rubel at goosemoon.org (Allan Anderson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:30:58 -0800
Subject: (urth) Chrasmologic
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Son of Witz wrote:
> Proofreader.
> Not a job for me.  As a designer, I'm thrilled one of my colleagues is a UCSB Valedictorian. I give her everything, even my weirdo album projects.
> I considered for a brief second doing a proofreading of those pdfs. no fuckin way.  Since it's OCR, the punctuation is the most problematic, and one of the harder things to proofread since we tend to read punctuation subliminally.
>
> While I was writing about laughs in Long Sun, I forgot to mention Oreb.  loving that damn bird. Do you pronounce Chough as "Chuff" "Choff" "Coff" "Cuff"????   I live right near a huge park and we've got fat ravens and crows all over the neighborhood.  My son and I have seen them catching rats and scarfing down on our neighbors' roofs.  I love their obnoxious cackles. If I could have a talking raven, I would. Fuck a parrot.  This is a Shakespeare allusion, no? talking ravens? I remember that from somewhere.
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> ~wtiz
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>   
Makes me think of the ravens in The Hobbit, and the few Dwarves and 
Dalemen who remembered the ravenspeak.

I guess it goes back to Odin's Hugin and Munin: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_and_Munin -- I fear for Thought, but 
more for Memory.

I saw some serious-looking big black birds at Alamo Square last month. 
Maybe these were some of your friends.

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