So  have to imagine there are linesbright lines  tha have run through your life mileposts distinct markers which have informed possiblyformed  your life

Where’s this coming from?

Conversation

                Communication   communing

I grewup twothousands miles from hereyou got me by three years in age yet were somewhat contemporaries

   Comparisons  comparing

Influences

So what do you want to know?

Know

         I suppose thas for you to say

Whell . . . I don’t know what you want me to say.

Nothing

          I asked wha I thought was a simply questionoff the top of your head

Influences

What do you mean?

    I thinkNo  no

                    I believeI know  its inherent in the word

My fathe . .

. . Not familial You   Personally

You said influences.

I did

My father was a huge influence.

Ever think too huge

                         Or was large enough to have been a detrimentas you know  my father wasnt

I revered him. 

                 He wasn’t a detrimen . .

. . Curbed you

What do you mean . . curbed?

Altered

Altered what?

Decisions

             Decisions wha shoud have been yours alone

Finances aside

What do you mean finances?

Financial influence

                      I paid my parents nominal rent from the time I was thirteen which was preceded by things I wanted tha I knew they woudnt afford me so it fell to me

Finances

You paid rent?

I was responsible

                      Influences  Bright lines

    I don’t know.

Not off the top of your head

I don’t know.

Maybe Ill inspire you

Off the top of my head

                         The Beatles Nam Kennedy-King-Kennedy assassinations Moonshot Watergate Lennon September Eleven Insurrection

Bright lines

               Like freakin lasers

Oh, I thought you meant people.

People events traumas draumas

                                       Anything tha stirredup passions

Ya got those  right

I do.

    Friend  I hope your marriage vow was more enthusiastic

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Youah you ingest fiber?

I have  Metamucil

                      Years ago to help offset medications I was prescribed

I liked it an awful lot tastes like Tangwhich went into outer space  As a kid friends had at their houses but my parents refused to buy it

Told us water was just fine

Thahappens when feedin a household of eleven

    You

Every day since my colon perforation and resulting surgery.

I remember Tha was years ago

                                       Still

Every day.

            But not you?

Nah

      Youve heard the saying hair of the dog   Mythic

Yes.

In my household hair of the cat

You have four cats.

Yes I do Lovem to bits

                           I used to fish hair out of my coffee or teastopped  they love jumping up on the desk as I write letters work on the PCGoogle the hell out of things as part of research  I call it research though its nothing more than curiosity

You can understand why I have cats

                                        Only critter Ive found as curious as me

Cat hair  My fibre

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101preferred,  Thursday

You’re inappropriate. 

                         he wondered if she was fuckin with him Yah

                                                               Yah

In my experience Ive found tha in certain circumstances rather than give words or actions any credenceany kind of validity  rationality

                       Best shoot it in the headput it out of its misery

Which then alleviates mine 

                             After havin to hear  see   tolerate its momentary existence

    Yours was a real Jim dandy hers was a dandy expression   he didnt strike any chords

                                                                                               Thas a litotes

Ironic understatement

You were inappropriate approachin me

                                          I just sent you packing in the most polite manner I coud muster at the time

Ive given it some thought since

                                Attha moment  ya got the best I had

Hence my opprobrium

                        Your problem

Well I’m going to HR.

Don do acronyms

Human Resources.

Ah  Yes Thank you

                         Before ya do I suggest ya talk with some of our coworkers some management managers an tellem whaya stepped in wha line whoya crossed

                                                     You must have missed my No Trespassing sign

Quickly

         It reads Trespassers Will Be Violated

But I was good

                      I did not violate you

 

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So youre thrilled by binary blackanwhite images being manipulated

                                                                          Kinda like I ask a yesno question

Answer is obfuscated blurred

Cant say honestly  Toss a fuckin coin

                                           Yadon see the problem though

I don’t see what’s wrong touching up an image.

Lets see

          Insist its not a photo illustration deepfakes synthetic media not tha anyoneany entity woud want to augmentalter my image

                            Still

My image isnt available an Im not makin it so

                                                 No screen presence don facetime don skypedon know if thas a thing anymore or care annot tha in its heyday I wasnt pressed

How will the grandbabies get to know you?

Same way I got to know mine

                                Face to face flesh and blood   Reality

Not on some projectedpixilated screen

We need high-def.  See whas around him.

    Anwhas with you

                        I asked you about the colour wheel

Yagave me gibberish

                           Again

Roy G Biv.

             A mnemonic device.

    Im not familiar  All ears

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

I don see a difference between indigo an violet

Most people can’t.

Needed the I to enhance the devise

                                      Coud have said B V Ddropped the D werent talkinbout underwear   Gstring

I asked about primary colours

    Oh.  I thought you meant light.

I can see the confusion

                            Sittin right in front of it

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Pink Floyd  Any Colour You Like  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8pEjmZVx3k

it ticked himTurner ticked him at the time

                                              Filmmakers had a choice  They chose blackanwhite

Colourised  False

I disagree. I’m watching old films on youtube, American cities, World War Two, First World War, they’re fantasti . .

. . Colourised

                 Horseshit

Now if the producers went back say cars  learned what colours cars were manufactured in an replicated those colours womens clothing childrens toys window signage curtains housepaints for those particular houses  bricks  ya woudnt have an argument from me

But I woud hazard they didnt

You don’t know that?

You do

         Did those historical organisations beyond allowing blackanwhite archival films photographs vet or actually create the product tha titillates you

I wouldn’t say titillat . .

. . I did

I don’t know. What I know is I’m really enjoying them.

                                                           If you watc . .

. . I woudnt

But if you did . .

. . This kinda brings us back to an early discussion we had

You changing things up on me?

Not necessarily

What then?

    I asked if you could stay in your house for ten days without seeing anyone

Oh no, not that.

What did you say

You know what I said.

Yes I do However its pertinent just now you do

                                                    Whadidyasay

I said I could.

Yah

     Donmake me finish your astonishing declaration

It wasn . .

. . It was

            Finish it

I said I could . . . but I didn’t want to.

Therefore

            Not wanting to you coudnt

Therefore

            If I don want to watch a colourise film I wont   I cant

You always twist things around.

No Bringem to their obvious conclusion

                                           If someone say you  doesnt want to do something they you  will not

I coud is not doing

    Therefore my bitch at colourising blackanwhite binary recorded product is naturally dishonest  A lie

People will embellish lies to makem palatable possibly  even   not a lie

                                                                                  Its a fuckin lie

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Fleetwood Mac  Little Lies  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIYthyp2lto

God, you remember snowblowers?

dude stepped in itwasn lettin him go

                                        all innocentlike Snowblowers

Yeah, hold ‘em up, shake ‘em madly, watch the snow swirl.

    Globe restrained his heehees

That’s what I said.

Nah  yadidnt

Snow globes, I said snow globes. Snow.  Globes.

Globe Single syllable

                        Snowblowers three grew up in southern Californiawoudnt see much snow there though  family had a vacation cabin in the mountains   Skied

Yasaid snowblowers

    I did not.

Yadid

        Anby the colour creepin into your face Im a little surprised youre not admitting yadid

Just you an me

    I don’t think I did.

Let me say  I don think

                           I know

But you knew what I meant.

Not until you talked about holding a snowblower up an shakin it quote watch the snow swirl

                                                                                                   I made money shoveling snow in Chicago

Have never used a snowblower or woud I

Theyre effete

They’r . .

. . No they are not

                      Theyre loud obnoxious  May save fat people from heart attacks an there were an are a lot of fat people there

Mr Smith A guy I used to work weekends all year long died shoveling snow after I left

                                                                                             Said snowblower  dude

I really don’t think I did.

    Then ya shoud have used believe Theres assuredness therefree of doubt

Hereya go Absolute

                       Buwait you don believe in tha   believe because of your scientific mathematical reasoned mind

Yasaid snowblower

                         Say it

Get it off your plate

Ill not go back to it

Snowblower.

My wha a big boy

                      Thank you

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he didnt despair

                   he was disappointed

he explained to her that he wouldnt be going to Michelin restaurants or for French food should she extend him an invitation

           I need to be punched in the mouth

Subtlety nuance are lost on me

                                  Unfortunately its been that way lots of years  figure its onset were my broken noses olfactory helping to inform my taste does not exist also reason why I drink straight spirits to wine mixed drinks

    That must be terrible.

softly shook his head Disappointing

that conversationexplanation was after a girlfriend of hers approached them at the party she was hosting and remarked how absolutely delicious she smelled

they began talking about what the perfumecologne was what her likes were

                                                                                  disconnecting chuckling softly Whereof Thereof shorthand for philosopher Wittgensteins edict if ever was Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.

when their conversation exited sensory he avidly listenedparticipated again

    excusing herself  Well, I believe it best I get back to my husband; he’s lost without me. Thank you again so very much for the invitation.

May I replenish your drink

Yes, please, a very dry gin martini.

No vermouth

Yes.

I can buildem

What are you sipping?

Im takinyaup on your Angels Envy Rye enjoyin the hell out of it

I thought you might.

    You must have overheard me

she winked 

            Yes I did.  You’re one of the few people I pay keen attention to when they speak.

volleying her wink

                  Be right back

Here you go

she sipped  Oh you’re good.

Thank you

You’re welcome.  So . . .

    So

Can you remember the last perfume you enjoyed?

The woman I enjoyed it on yes

                                  She told me she discovered it at Sephora  I wasnt familiar                                      

But you cant remember its name?

I remember her name

Can you describe it?

Slight grapefruit limonene

    You remember limonene, but not it’s name?

Her name

           When we went out for the evening if she wore it I knew that night wed make love

Interesting marker to pickup on.

Thasaid

          We made love a lot when she wasnt wearing it 

    Made a whole lotta love

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Zeppelin  Whole Lotta Love  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abRrdm_3_nU

    . . . that will teach him to roam around in The New York Review of Books like forest preserves he wandered in as a kid despite his parents warning himthey didnt forbid himwhich would have been a waste that unsavory people hung around in themwhich they must have knownwerent idiots was terribly foolish dumb he thoughtdidnt reply  unsavory people needed people to be unsavory for the forest its trees the sprawling middens of fallen leaves toomanytocount plants fascinating alienfungi fox squirrel deer wouldnt give them the time of day

                                                                                       only once did he see one

they were across the river from him pants to their ankles masturbating furiouslyHEY YOU could hardly believe they quit tugging  thinking different strokes for different folks he laughed as furiously as they had tugged  through his humoured spittleYAH YOU he ranaway into the woods as the man screamed unintelligibly at his back

    new word  désinvolture

                             French  offhand  unconstrained

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his phone rang

                 saw it wasnt a telemarketer a buddy

Yah

I’m at the liquor store. New Years.  What champagne would you recommend?

he knew what he was asking

                                he could hear his buddys girl  friend  It has to be French.

French

       Not a sparkling wine

Yeah I know I know.  Which one?

Shes brought more than a few over to your place 

I don’t remember.

    You helped her drinkem

I  don’t  remember.

Well Ive no idea

You worked in a liquor store.

Yah

People must have asked you.

They did

           I handedem off  Don drink it no interest

Ask           

There’s a guy on the floor, looks like he played sports an athlet . .

. . A Neanderthal

A what?

You heard me

                 If youre gonna ask someone ask a woman an effete man

Whatwhy?

Ill put it this way  Prices are killin ya

                                           You decide to ask the jock ask him  Whas a good champainless

What?

Right up your alley man

could hear him grate his teeth You’re no help.

Ya knew tha when yacalled

                               Champainless

never did ask him about his New Years Eve

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FzCWLOHUes

                                                       Chicago!  she turned up the car radio  I love this song.

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is

Yes, and I’ve no idea why I love it so much.

Does anybody really care

I . . I . think that's it.

Nobody cares

What do you think?     

Doesnt matter  You love it

I do I do.

    Though I believe I know whod be absolutely worthless asking

Worthless?

              Who?

The sun and the moon

    What?

Yah

      Theyre involved in their own dance

Were peons

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1648,  Tuesday,  7  1. 25

Wake Up Sunshine  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Qz2xPyJbc

You know how shit occurs to me

she smiled broadly disarmed himhappily with her dimples

                                                                  Probably more than most.

No doubt  The most

Aww look at you . yatryin’ to get into my pants?

Can I explainthen  get in your pants

she laughed didnt cover her mouth

                                        This must be something.  Yes of course.

Suhweet

           In each instancewrong not instanceinstant only the first  Ill not beat around the bush

OhJesus.

            You’re in rare form this afternoon.

Its lingered

               Ive been working through it since I read then reread the articles on ants possessed by Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

Ya goading me for a God Bless a gesundheit?

laughed

           No  A mouthful no doubt

Yasaid it. You mentioned it and another fungi in kind that was found in fiftymillion year old Baltic amber.

Yes

What occurred to you?

                            she purred I’m getting antsy.

Youre hilarious

I have my moments.

                         What occurred?

    The infected ant in affect becomes a zombie

You said.

So wha I was thinkin was this

                                  Pity   If someone coudnt have pity for tha ant fuckem

I woudnt have a damn thing to do withem

an anointing smile  Well babe.

                               A simple confirmation.

Howstha

You have a big heart

    Thank you

You’re welcome.

                    Now come over here I wanna lick it. 

 

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Ophiocordyceps unilateralis  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3204140/

https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/mushroom-growing-out-fossilized-ant-reveals-new-genus-and-species-fungal-parasite