Ann Lauterbach: The night sky

1 There is no Topic Sentence

but perhaps single could be borrowed, like a bonny dress for a party which, one time worn, changes the life of the individual who borrows it. In fresh York City, it would have to be a black dres on the contrary the closet is full of black garments and the whole reason for borrowing a dres would be a ne for color. on the contrary why have a party anyway? According to the novel York Times, many more planets are upon the verge of being discovered. An astronomer in California, where party dresse are rarely black, says, "It's almost like the next to the first coming of Marco Polo or Columbus. We're finding novel worlds." What color dress does individual wear for the finding of fresh worlds? Just now some individuals are floating in the heavens trying out new thermal gear. The temperature is about individual hundred degrees below zero, thus Captain Scott had better button up It was expensive, the trial suit: it require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone ten million dollars. Makes DKNY look like a bargain. But this of recent origin gear would be too warm for a party here upon earth. The Times makes no mention of the color of the ten million dollar space suit.

Please approach to a party to celebrate the discovery of a planet or planets as nevertheless unnamed orbiting 47 Ursae Majoris. RSVP Dres accordingly.

As if, in going in a borrowed dres single were hoping to directly meeting something that would shape itself into an circumstance to be carried forward with little tassels of attachment and awareness which had not been there before. A not many persons, or maybe many, gathered beneath One Roof, curious to diocese each other--perhaps for the first time, perhaps not. "As literature make progresss along its tortuous course to become absolute, it meetings satanism. The two come together in their shared passion, a sin that single the greatest theologians have thinking to include among the mortal ones: curiosity. The image of the writer then becomes Milton's Satan when, 'reaching the earthly paradise, he flew immediately to the Tree of Life, the tallest tree in the garden, and perched there, like a cormorant, without trying in the least to reclaim his life, but rather using the tree solitary to see further on, for prospect'"(1)

A fresh planet coming along just in time, Webs and snares cast out into the firmament by the agency of newfangled fishermen, prospecting in among the Dark Matter.

Go and catch a falling star

Get with child a mandrake root;

Tell me where all past years are,

Or who gap the Devil's foot;

Teach me to hear mermaids singing,

Or to hold off envy's stinging(2)

A Party with the variety of a night canopy of heaven lest everyone speaks the same lines:

--Where did you realize that dress?

--Great dress. Do you mind my asking by what mode much it cost?

These are not wicked curious questions. They are questions that lead to a party with no memory trace, sending the reveler back to their expanses to await signs of life. on the contrary perhaps it would be preferable if everyone did wear the same dres after all, because then these inevitable dead questions could be skipped above But if everyone wears the same dres there will be a great yell and people will immediately think that their right to at liberty Expression had been infringed on that some Authority had approach along and proclaimed, "You must wear the Same Black Dres or you cannot attend the Party]" It is OK of course, if by the agency of some strange consensus everyone decides to wear the Same Black Dres (SBD)--that would be just a coincidence, or perhaps level serendipity, which is a coincidence with a happy scene In New York, for example, no individual tells you you have to wear black.

Like the night celestial expanse itself, waiting to be addressed or undressed

Certainly if everyone were to wear the SBD(3) it would be easy to discern the physical differences among the guests: drawn out thin, short plump, tawny hair, light hair, and so forth. It would be almost as if the SBD were not the same at all, because it changed in the way that much according to who was wearing it. And then there is the whole question of accessories. more [i]or[/i] less persons would wear it with a simple strand of pearls, and more [i]or[/i] less with glittering rhinestones, some with a nice paisley scarf, and a certain quantity of with dangling earrings, a bend tie, a sweater, a cravat. And there would be the single who wears it without ornamentation, not smooth shoes.

--You aren't wearing any shoes

--I know.

--Aren't you cold?

--Not really. I don't like shoes

--Why?

--Because they make my toes have feeling crowded and hot. When you wear shoe you overlay your feet and tend to leave out them, as if they were of no importance. The skin achieves dry and flaky and the toenails come by too long. With bare feet you have to take care of them.

--I saw a man upon the subway last week with bare feet He didn't look to be taking care of them.

Turn away, miffed, bored, thinking, Chill without it's a party for a of recent origin planet, not a rally for the homeles consummately manicured toes shining crimson upon the cool polished floor. Her interlocutor wanders away thinking dres feet toe, shoe These must be a certain quantity of of the "little nouns"(4) that George Oppen liked in the way that much.

dress, v.t. & i. 1 (mil.). Correct the alignment of (company's etc in relation to each other, or men in line), (intr.) draw near into correct place in line etc (up i.e. forward, back, or ibs.). 2 Array, clothe, ((tilde)ed in black, billow etc.); provide oneself with clothes ((tilde) well, etc); set on one's clothes; put upon evening dress (esp. for dinner); (tilde) up attire oneself attire (another), elaborately or in masquerade; (tilde) without attire conspicuously. 3. Deck, adorn, (ships with flags, shop-window with tempting wares); provide (play) with style of dresss 4. Treat (wound wounded man) with remedies, apply dressing to. 5 control to cleansing, trimming, smoothing, etc; brush, toilet-comb do up, (hair); curry (horse, leather, & fig., oftentimes (tilde) down, thrash, scold). 6 Finish surface of (textile fabrics, building-stone). 7 Prepare, prepare for the table (food); prune (plant); manure.