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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 13h

Here is the full text of Arthur Sze's Library of Congress poem, which I accessed thanks to my public library 📚 🖊

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
You peer down a lit corridor
on the fifth tier of stacks
where a million books breathe
on shelves; here's a book
on neutrinos captured in Antarctica,
here's another on solar Aares.
A curator displays a book
in Vai script and points to a triangle
with two dots; you wonder
if you are looking at a pregnant
woman, an enslaved man,
or a human ear; you pull a book
off a shelf and, opening it,
hear Del aire al aire, como
then snap it shut: the air hums
with honeybees. A second curator
points at glittering gold script;
though you can't divine a word,
you guess Farsi and dive
into the marlin-blue depth of the page.
A third curator shows you Lü
woodblock printed on mulberry paper,
and as you read a distant mind
leaves the earth around it,
you smell daylilies in a courtyard
and know you may caravan
to Timbuktu, but there's no
pear-blossom end to what's within reach.
-Arthur Sze

Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like there is a whole op ed here about the actual security being neighbors who talk to & trust each other but I am not the right person to unpack the racial and generational elements underlying the original anecdote.

Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

These people are mostly dead now so I don't think this is a violation of their trust. It was nice that the neighbors all shared their codes with each other, I guess?

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

It was funny when we realized that not only my parents but also 75% of their neighbors chose 1066 as their home security code when ADT came around their area in the 1990s

History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

959 years ago, on the 14th of October 1066, the Battle of Hastings took place. Harold Godwinson (king of England for 282 days) died in the battle that would turn William from Bastard to Conqueror. Battle Abbey's high altar is said to be in the exact location of Harold II's death. #otd #history 🗃️

Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting an English soldier in combat with Norman cavalry during the Battle of Hastings, wool on linen, 11th-century; in the Bayeux Tapestry Museum, France.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

you know how sometimes you can tell way too much effort was put into a very bad idea

Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

what the actual 👀

Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, we didn't plant pumpkins.

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

yes, I forgot to mention that 😂

Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

I love that someone, somewhere, has cornered this very specific museum market.

Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

Erica Lord, the Codes We Carry, beaded DNA #sciart for Indigenous Peoples Day
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Beadwork showing different DNA patterns, including one that is displayed on a dog mannequin

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

this year's pumpkin harvest, potholder for scale

very tiny yellow pumpkin, swimming on a handmade green and yellow potholder

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

It's annoying how many of our hobbies have been appropriated for tradwife content!!

Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

what could possibly go wrong

Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

This man's great-grandfather died in a tragic agricultural accident, AS I HAVE REMINDED HIM.

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

"My husband wants a scythe for Christmas," a timeless tale

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

thanks, Shannon!

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

A little Thomas Cobden-Sanderson adjacent poem nobody needed, for #smallpoemsunday! 🌊 📚 🕊

Arts & crafts

Gulls and pigeons peck at slugs
Of lead.

Water floods the channel
Twice each day:

Metal into a matrix
Casting river shapes.

Some humans have
Cast type into the river.

What might one hope to catch
With all those letters?

Heavily
They fly down from the bridge.

Along the shingle,
Someone comes gleaning.

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

A little Thomas Cobden-Sanderson adjacent poem nobody needed, for #smallpoemsunday! 🌊 📚 🕊

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 3d

live in a way that you're remembered like this challenge

"Fr Tom Casey, Gonzaga chaplain, described Magan as a 'gatherer of light', telling how he listened to the whisper of bees and the murmur of bog and oak.

'He lived in conversation with creation – ag comhrá leis an gcruthú féin.'"

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 8d

Manchán Magan found wonder everywhere, mourners hear at funeral full of music and poetry

Writer and broadcaster, who died at 55 of cancer, was ‘fire-starter’ who will be remembered for ‘spirit of abundance’

www.irishtimes.com

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 3d

Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)

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