arc by virtue of being ark

[jporter]

Somewhere between Pitt and Pliny- those paired pairs of little ones- I
SPOTTED in the DICTionary, Planck. Not necessarily equidistant, for sure,
depending on which book you consult. Uncertain, in fact, given the vagaries
of language, and the proprensity for new words to emerge from....wherever
new words emerge from, and the lingering sadness of those words which fall
out of use- out of mind. No. The distance between Pitt and Pliny, separated
somehow by Planck, seems destined to remain forever uncertain. Unable, in
fact, even to be pinned down by the point of one of Tenebrae's needles, if
there be any point to Tenebrae's needles, that is (are?).

Yet, as a paired pair they are as certain as a proton. Stuck together in
their little hideway beneath the waves of, say, history (with a small h),
surrounded by the rest of the family- their little octopia- they are kept
well.

Between them, however, a stretch "...as impossible to calculate...as the
Distance to a Star."


jody

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"The bird, a pigeon was it? or a dove (she'd found there were doves here)
flew through the air, its colour lost in what light remained"  Page one,
line one, _Carpenter's Gothic_ William Gaddis.