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COME AND VEGETATION MIGHT EMERGE BUT THE DESERT NEVER QUITE BECOMES LUSH INSTEAD THE DRY SANDY MOUNTAINSIDE MIGHT BE SCULPTED INTO A VARIETY

“Occasionally, because of the change of air currents, some storms might come and vegetation might emerge, but the desert never quite becomes lush. Instead, the dry, sandy mountainside might be sculpted into a variety of strange forms. And, if there is underground water, an oasis might be formed.”

Yip, Wai-lim. Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. p. 154.

University of California Press

SAPLINGS TREES EACH TWIG AND LIMB ARE SUDDENLY WHITE WITH SNOW AND EARTH BECOMES BRIGHTER THAN THE SKY THAT INTRICATE SHRUB OF NERVES VEINS ARTERIES

“Now that black ground and bushes—
saplings, trees,
each twig and limb—are suddenly white with snow,
the earth becomes brighter than the sky,

that intricate shrub
of nerves, veins, arteries—
myself—uncurls
its knotted leaves
to the shining air.”

Reznikoff, Charles, and Milton Hindus. “Winter Sketches.” Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff, 1917-1976. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. p. 154.

Poetry Foundation

EVER BEGINNERS UNTIL ALL IS MARGIN WARM AND FLAT HOW THE NEAR BECOMES FAR AND THE FAR BECOMES NEAR WE MAY TRY TO DISCOVER BUT WE SHOULDN'T

“Ever beginners until all is margin, warm and flat

How the near becomes far and the far becomes near we may

try to discover but we shouldn’t take the question too

seriously”

Hejinian, Lyn. Happily. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 2000. p. 20.

HARDLY BE REGARDED AS A MINIMUM STANDARD OF LIVING THE HUMAN ANIMAL BECOMES QUITE TOUGH WITH A LITTLE PRACTICE AND CAN LIVE FOR YEARS ON

“All in all, this hurried and partial survey would indicate that the United States had in 1940 several times the productive capacity needed to maintain its people at the living standard of 1900, and this could hardly be regarded as a minimum standard of living. The human animal becomes quite tough with a little practice, and can live for some years on much less than the 1900 standard of living if it believes that it must do so for survival or other reasons which it holds dear.”

Urey, Harold C. "Technology: Peace or War." Social Science 21, no. 4 (1946): 276.

MORE THE WORKER EXPENDS HIMSELF IN WORK THE MORE POWERFUL BECOMES THE WORLD OF OBJECTS WHICH HE CREATES THE POORER HIS INNER LIFE AND

"Words, where you are, as in a trail, not forest but thicket, pine needle modifiers, shingles of a pine cone on which to focus, but syntax, syntax was the half-light. The more the worker expends himself in the work the more powerful becomes the world of objects which he creates in fact of himself, the poorer he becomes in his inner life, and the less he belongs to himself. Point of transfer. Paper treated chemically
so as to alter perception. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality. Chance of light rain. Tenderness in that wicked man."

Silliman, Ron. The Age of Huts (compleat). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. p. 99.

University of California Press

PURSUIT PROCESSION INTO SUN MOON STARS THE TREE OUTSIDE THE HOUSE BECOMES THE ROAD TO HEAVEN SHAMANS CLIMB IT WITH OUR CHILDREN FATHERS

“…o matter matter
consciousness is also touch
creation is creation of this place
image of what we are
life felt most sharply where the dead wait
where our fathers do not sleep
do not not-sleep
earth that the book has led us down to
will show the way home at last
a world of obstacles
—‘that crush me’ Kafka wrote—
in beautiful pursuit
procession into sun moon stars
the tree outside the house becomes
the road to heaven
shamans climb it with our children
fathers did too
whose beards tangled in its branches
animals & people in a world we knew
soon to be wrested from us by invasion
of some darker mind…”

Rothenberg, Jerome. “11/75.” Vienna Blood & Other Poems. New York: J. Laughlin, 1980. p. 42.

New Directions Books

THESE LIBERTIES THREATENED INSTEAD OF FALLING APART OUR NATION BECOMES UNIFIED AND OUR DEMOCRACIES COME TOGETHER IN OUR VARIED BACKGROUNDS

“Basic decisions of our society are made through the expressed will of the people. That is why when we see these liberties threatened, instead of falling apart, our nation becomes unified and our democracies come together as a unified group in spite of our varied backgrounds and many racial strains.”

Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Struggle for Human Rights” Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, September 28, 1948, in Allida Black, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Vol. 1: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948, 900-905.

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

DAWN BEYOND RISE THE MOUNTAINS BLUE AND PURPLE THE BLUE OF THE SKY BECOMES PURPLE A STAR IS SHINING THE DESERT IS WHITE WITH SNOW THE SAGE

“The dark ground is flat to the river—bright with dawn;
beyond rise the mountains blue and purple;
the blue of the sky becomes purple, in which a star is shining.
The desert is white with snow, the sage heaped with it;
the mountains to the north are white.”

Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “Autobiography: New York.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005. p. 194.

AND FIXED BECAUSE IT HAS NO END AND NO BEGINNING THE WORLD BECOMES CONSCIOUS THE WORLD DISCOVERS AND DEFINES ITSELF IN THE END OF SONG

“What is relatively stable and fixed, because it has no end and no beginning, is the world of which that sensibility becomes conscious, the world in and through which that sensibility would discover and define itself. The end of Song of Myself, the moral object which synchronizes with its poetic object, is to know that the world is there, and in the knowing, to know itself as there; in effect, through such a transaction to create itself and the possibility for readers to create themselves.”

Pearce, Roy Harvey. "Toward an American Epic." The Hudson Review 12, no. 3 (1959): 366. doi:10.2307/3848762.

The Hudson Review

WAS PREVIOUSLY CAPTIVE IN NATURE AND IN SOCIETY THE PASSAGE OF TIME BECOMES MORE COMPREHENSIBLE IN THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION IN WHICH

“The serfs have become free citizens once more. By offering to all the mediators the being that was previously captive in Nature and in Society, the passage of time becomes more comprehensible again. In the world of the Copernican Revolution, in which everything had to be contained between the poles of Nature and Society, history did not really count.”

Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. p. 81.

Harvard University Press

OF HUMANS THE ASYMMETRY BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE THEN BECOMES AN ASYMMETRY BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE THE CONFUSION OF THINGS AND

“It is a projection of the Middle Kingdom on to a line transformed into an arrow by the brutal separation between what has no history but emerges nevertheless in history – the things of nature – and what never leaves history – the labours and passions of humans. The asymmetry between nature and culture then becomes an asymmetry between past and future. The past was the confusion of things and men; the future is what will no longer confuse them.”

Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. p. 71.

Harvard University Press

CONSCIOUSNESS AND OBJECTIVITY ARE MISSING THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SOMETHING BECOMES NOTHING MORE THAN A SLENDER FOOTBRIDGE SPANNING AN ABYSS

“Pure objectivity and pure consciousness are missing, but they are nevertheless – indeed, all the more – in place. The ‘consciousness of something’ becomes nothing more than a slender footbridge spanning a gradually widening abyss. Phenomenologists had to cave in – and they did.”

Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. p. 58.

Harvard University Press

OF HIS CHILDHOOD IN THE EVENING NEWS THE THIN FILM OF WRITING BECOMES A MOVEMENT OF STRATA A PLAY OF SPACES THE READER'S WORLD SLIPS INTO

“The readable transforms itself into the memorable: Barthes reads Proust in Stendhal's text; the viewer reads the landscape of his childhood in the evening news. The thin film of writing becomes a movement of strata, a play of spaces. A different world (the reader's) slips into the author's place.
This mutation makes the text habitable, like a rented apartment. It transforms another person's property into a space borrowed for a moment by a transient.”

Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. p. xxi.

University of California Press

AFTER THE TORNADOES ARE OVER THE WIND SHIFTS ABOUT AGAIN AND THE SKY BECOMES CLEAR IN THE VALLEYS AND THE SIDES OF THE MOUNTAINS THERE RISES

“The westerly winds begin to blow in may but are not settled till a month afterwards. the west winds always bring rain, tornadoes, and very tempestuous weather. At the first coming in of these winds they blow but faintly; but then the tornadoes rise one in a day, sometimes two. These are thunder-showers which commonly come against the wind, bringing with them a contrary wind to what did blow before. After the tornadoes are over the wind shifts about again and the sky becomes clear, yet then in the valleys and the sides of the mountains there rises thick fog which covers the land.”

Dampier, William, and Nicholas Thomas. New Voyage Round the World. Hereford, United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2020.

Project Gutenberg Australia

WE WERE DRAWN FROM THE HASILTH BEYOND TO HER MOUNTAINS AND HER DESERTS THAT ALWAYS UUSÁWA OUR NYA'WARR SPIRITS SACRED IS THE MUT HERE

- Line 2, Yeechesh Cha’alk, Alex Hunter and Eva Trujillo.

WORLD THE WORLD OF THE IMMENSELY SMALL AND THE IMMENSELY GREAT BECOMES AS FAMILIAR AS OUR COMMON EARTHLY EXPERIENCE THE COSMIC PAGEANT

“We must calculate and recalculate, even though only approximately, to check and recheck our initial impressions until slowly, with time and constant application, the real world, the world of the immensely small and the immensely great, becomes as familiar to us as the simple cradle of our common earthly experience.
The Cosmic Pageant
Now that we have become familiar with the magnitudes involved, both large and small, for both space and time, we must sketch what we know of the origin of the universe, together with the formation of the galaxies and the stars and finally of the planets which make up our solar system, so that we can outline the conditions under which life originated, either on earth or elsewhere in the cosmos.”

Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Touchstone, 1982. pp. 28-9.

RESIDING SINKING DEEP ROOTS INTO THE PLACE QUIET IN THE LAND BECOMES A LOCATION ENCOURAGING A MEETING OF CULTURES SEPARATED WITHIN

“And it is she who, in each manifestation of The Quiet in the Land, has been able to see the complexity of place—the physical, cultural, political, historical space as it existed—and then recognize ‘the potentiality of consciousness,’ as Maurice Merleau-Ponty might call it, residing there.
Sinking deep roots into each chosen site, The Quiet in the Land itself becomes a location, encouraging a meeting of cultures, which, although historically coexistent, may be separated within distinct cultural and technological time frames.”

Becker, Carol. “The Lay of the Land.” In The Quiet in the Land: Luang Prabang, Laos, a Project by France Morin, edited by France Morin and John Alan Farmer. New York: The Quiet in the Land, Inc., 2009.

SIMPLY MARKING EACH DAY AS ONE OF SURVIVAL IN SUCH ACTIONS ONE'S LIFE BECOMES IDENTIFIED WITH TIME BEYOND ALL ILLUSION AND STILLNESS RESULTS

“There must be comfort in such rigorous mastery - simply marking off each day at a time as one of survival. In such actions one’s life becomes identified with time beyond all illusion and, surprisingly, internal stillness can result, even though we are painfully aware that, although we can slow time down, it is always moving forward.”

Becker, Carol. “Afterthoughts: Stilling the World.” In Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh, by Adrian Heathfield and Tehching Hsieh. London: MIT Press and Live Art Development, 2009. p. 3. (PDF)

RECOVERED TRACE IN A SET OF RESPONSES IS QUITE SMALL THE TASK BECOMES ONE OF RECOGNITION THE SUBJECT CAN GENERATE EACH RESPONSE IN ORDER

"A search of smaller scope is made in a paired-associate task; when the set of possible responses is large, the search for the answer is similar to that made in free recall, with a search component and a recognition component to identify the recovered trace as the appropriate one. When the set of responses in a paired-associate task is quite small, the task becomes one of recognition alone: the subject can generate each possible response in order and perform a recognition test on each. The recognition test presumably probes the trace for information identifying it as being from the correct list and being associated with the correct stimulus."

Atkinson, Richard C., J. W. Brelsford, and R. M. Shiffrin. Multi-Process Models for Memory with Applications to a Continuous Presentation Task. Report no. 96. Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, Stanford University. Psychology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 1966, 54.