selected fragments on poetic composition from the Amphibolics of Oktopodes (translated from the Greek by Callie Gardner) 12 to produce the sensation of loss with a deferred profundity, write as though your hands were short flowers, and their pollens inks 16b to make the reader feel like a ragged coastline, use words selected over the course of a long june evening at a northerly latitude from a diary written entirely on mornings with weather 23 for the physical nervousness of political hope, write in a tree, or on the edge of a bed. falling out is preferable but the effect can be easily simulated by keel-hauling oneself with nylon bondage rope 38 to elicit a feeling of rage at the ways one has never been treated, mimic the impression of a latinate spider scrabbling up the screen of a 1995 Amstrad Action A117 45a to help the reader understand that to be is to be divided, induce bubbling between yourself and the other. give up none of your understanding to knowing a science of the perfectible. 60* to have the reader know that [ speak with the voice of a hidden [ ] obstacle
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117 with the understanding of inevitable losing of words, make no apology for the fullness of sounds; having each a long bell with its longer chime, let it harass the smooth branches of the clearing, and wind fearfully through the tents *trans. note: this is a partial fragment of notoriously doubtful authorship, and I follow Hagen-Jorland (1992) in attributing it to the Alexandrian Pseudo-Oktopodes, but include here for completeness.