From Kensington to Frederick it's 31 miles, Frederick to Hagerstown 24 miles, Hagerstown to Hancock 28 miles, Hancock to Cumberland 37 miles, Cumberland to Morgantown 65 miles, Morgantown to Washington 43 miles, Washington to Wheeling 36 miles, Wheeling to Zanesville 70 miles, Zanesville to Gambier 40 miles (Zanesville to Nashville is 14 miles, Nashville to Fallsburg 10, Fallsburg to Martinsburg 10, Martinsburg to Gambier 6). I know this by heart. The halfway point between Kensington and Zanesville is the Bruceton Mills exit on I-68 six miles west of the Maryland border in West Virginia. The halfway point between Kensington and Gambier is the interchange of I-68 and I-79 in Morgantown. PennDot finally completed and opened the new flyover interchanged at I-79 and I-70 in Washington. I thought there was going to be a new soccer stadium in DC before that interchange was completed, and there will never be a new soccer stadium in DC.
- In search of found time.
- To think is to always follow the witches flight.
- The slaughter bench of history.
- Ames v Goodman & Greenwald, an update.
- Maggie's weekend links.
- { feuilleton }'s weekend links.
- New Inquiry's Sunday reads.
- Agamben, for those of you who do.
- 177 pages of good. Buy it! Dave, the paypal link won't work for me, please email me your address and I'll send you old-fashioned currency.
- Josephine Miles' Reason. Thank you, Tom, for reminding me of Miles. It has been a while.
- On Harry Partch. Serendipitously I found a collection of his work last week at the library, plan to begin listening/burning this coming week. I don't know enough about him.
- Told you there would be Lampchop.
ON INHABITING AN ORANGE
Josephine Miles
All our roads go nowhere.
Maps are curled
To keep the pavement definitely
On the world.
All our footsteps, set to make
Metric advance,
Lapse into arcs in deference
To circumstance.
All our journeys nearing Space
Skirt it with care,
Shying at the distances
Present in air.
Blithely travel-stained and worn,
Erect and sure,
All our travels go forth,
Making down the roads of Earth
Endless detour.
