Book of Gardens

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The natural cards revolve ever changing
Seeded elsewhere planted in the garden fair grow trees, grow trees
Tongues of the sheer wind
Setting your foot where the sand is untrodden
The ocean that only begins

This one's for you @WashYourHands.

 

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Fortune is a wheel; fashion is a lifecycle; but a world lies between planting trees and keeping up with casualwear.

 

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Imports, imports, imports: the gated wall is a semi-permeable boundary; it keeps the bad out and the good in.

 

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Inhalation, exhalation, a cycle of respiration: oxygen is gifted a carbon atom.

 

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The castle moat slows armies, protects its flesh and gold.

 

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The artist-theorist schlepps between boundaries, “everything a remix” so: this there, that here.

 

[sus]

The natural cards revolve ever changing
Seeded elsewhere planted in the garden fair grow trees, grow trees
Tongues of the sheer wind
Setting your foot where the sand is untrodden
The ocean that only begins

This one's for you @WashYourHands.

So ISB becomes an international squad of bohemians—peripatetic spice traders, importing the mbira, guembri, sārangī.

 

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The injection of novel inputs into a system is equivalent to the creation of novel outputs.

 

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Is this some sort of occult thing?

 

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Stagnant ponds make poor drinking water and breed bloodsuckers; a zero-sum game means, “your pleasure at the cost of mine.”

 

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Time past, time present. Time began in a garden, began on January 1, 1970.

 

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The garden is designed topology (so what?), a space with objects intentionally situated in relation to each other (so what?).

 

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The structuring constitute a theory, the plants fertilized yes but also pruned, immigrant seedlings schlepped past wooden fences

 

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(A hypertext garden, wiki as garden, commune as garden.)

 

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The stream passes through, nourishes the garden—Heraclitus steps in the stream; it is a new stream; the garden remains.

 

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The garden has been placed in the path of a flowing, or a flowing diverted through garden, to bring novelty into structure.

 

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Which is to say: fashion flows through the arborescent and nourishes it. Hello institution. Hello commander.

 

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My captain my captain. No water, no life. All water, only pondscum.

 

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The water is the water of life is the water of dialectic.

 

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“In many ways the Stream is best seen through the lens of Bakhtin’s idea of the utterance. Bakhtin saw the utterance, the conversational turn of speech, as inextricably tied to context. To understand a statement you must go back to things before, you must find out what it was replying to, you must know the person who wrote it and their speech context. To understand your statement I must reconstruct your entire stream.”