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  1. junior’s TK teacher gave him a old craft mobile in a book from 1983 (when I was his age)

    a photograph of the book’s staple binding removed and the eight color printed card stock pages spread as four landscapes two by two over the fifth containing instructions, set on our our dining table in rows of two, two and one. I forgot to take a picture of the cover. Oops.the color pages contain shapes in primary colors, perforated so as to be punched out, and a map of how to assemble them into a mobile also visible are a few eames shell chairs in green, walnut, pink, and red,, a red cup of coffee, and a rubber plant in the corner

    a photograph of the book’s staple binding removed and the eight color printed card stock pages spread as four landscapes two by two over the fifth containing instructions, set on our our dining table in rows of two, two and onethe color pages contain shapes in primary colors, perforated so as to be punched out, and a map of how to assemble them into a mobile.My kid, bottom right, is cutting out the strips that will make the hoop-top of the mobile, using safety sissorsalso visible are a few eames shell chairs in green, walnut, pink, and red,, a red cup of coffee, and a rubber plant in the corner

    a photograph of the book’s staple binding removed and the eight color printed card stock pages spread as four landscapes two by two over the fifth containing instructions, set on our our dining table in rows of two, two and one, now jumbled with supplies including clear tape, two staplers, a box of staples, a measuring tape, and a spool of butcher’s twina sonic the hedgehog toy now supervises from the center of the tablethe color pages contain shapes in primary colors, perforated so as to be punched out, and a map of how to assemble them into a mobilethe hoop is assembled, and my kid is pointing at the map of next steps also visible are a few eames shell chairs in green, walnut, pink, and red,, a red cup of coffee, and a rubber plant in the corner

    a photograph of the assembled mobile hanging over my kid’s bed. the wall behind the bed is a light blue, the ceiling and window trim are white

  2. Homer still holds up because he repeats this same narrative echo in the form of advice over and over:

    “Hey, lesser God, go and give that mortal these instructions.”

    “Sure thing. Hey, you! Zeus says, ‘instructions’ (verbatim).

    “Gee thanks. Hey, wife or friend or whatever, Zeus says ‘instructions’ (verbatim), what do you think?”

    “Damn, you better follow ‘instructions’ (verbatim).”

    Reader: You fool!

    “I’m no fool!” [disregards instructions, dies]*

    • except for Priam.

  3. 14th book of 2024: “The Iliad", by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson.

    I really enjoyed Wilson’s “Odyssey” and “Oedipus Tyrannos” translations and had hoped to get to this last fall when I put it on the to-read pile. Alas.

    I’ve never read any The Iliad before, and it does kinda go on a bit (really? that’s your thoughts on the Iliad? sure why not, is “it was good” better?).

    Wilson manages to sneak in some slapstick amid all the brutality.

    (previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/103030875431089669)

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image yo, that mist work in discord?Mastodon

    the hardback cover of The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, as I read it, after pre-ordering it and letting it sit on the shelf for six months. The cover is going for a torn effect with the text below in black, red, and white capital serif over a gold painted wall with a tile motif along the bottom over a red band occupying half the cover on the right and bottom side, while under the torn paper or behind the crumbled wall is an illustration of a winged shirtless god holding something I’m sure I’m supposed to recognize but do notTranslated byEMILYWILSONTHEILIADHOMER

  4. RIP Alice Munro

    I’m a few stories into “Family Furnishings, Selected Stories 1995-2014”, the companion to “A Wilderness Station”, which I read a year ago, and expect to finish it before summer is out.

  5. muni fare enforcement at the inbound 27 / 12 stop on Cesar Chavez at Valencia

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