Needlework

141|24|3279. 14 5 5 4 12 5 23 15 18 11/Needlework: one cannot say countless, though indeed there have been an innumerable number of sightings of the phenomena, yet in varied forms and circumstances, sometimes upon sky between certain constellations, on the fringes of landscapes and countries, patches of paisleys in meadows, or even on jackets sometimes, their lining, or on buttons; and always extraordinary since they somehow unexpectedly, compose images, tales, narratives, that are familiar to some, like the clairvoyant half portrait of anti Madeleine that miraculously appears on some Irish mound predating her, or other such odd occurrences; and yet, what all these find in common, irrespective of where they are seen, is the metric of the ten distinct modules that form and structure the rhythmic basis of their formation, the tempo and the impasto, the pace and intensity of the innumerable infinitesimal perforations through which an exceeding yardage of strands continuously loop to construct its velvety improvisations; ∑Needlework= D

Anti referent #502 W7: Werklendeo

Oxon

141|7|3280. 15 24 15 14/Oxon: Though without a campus, yet carefully organized into 4 distinct divisions, each attending to a number of bifurcating institutions, with their own particular aims, methods and concepts, their own systems of differentiations between various subject matters and their respective departments, classrooms, lecture halls; down to provisions for eating, sleeping, bathing, under the general category of housing, and other such requirements and sustenance- all very well arranged for a smooth flow of activities that break down rather elegantly to the diagrammatic circuitry of activities- in actuality, not afforded a bird's eye view- the knowledge is assimilated through experience, the daily walks through its intestinal paths, as though one has somehow been devoured, placed in the digestive tract of some epistemological beast- that meander between its organs; filled at times with the inaudible thoughts of lecturers, theorists, experts, scientists, the metaphysicians, the empiricists, the fatalists, the moralists, as well as the nihilists; and yet at other times empty without a single thought, without a single beating heart, there reigns an eerily loud silence of evicted consciousness; ∑Oxon= N

Anti referent #503  X8: Xono

Microsurgery

141|24|3278. 13 9 3 18 15 19 21 18 7 5 18 25/Microsurgery: It is hard to imagine that these twelve fleshy members no larger than perhaps an index finger, should be the foundation of an entire array of historical events and cultural formation at this stretch of land along the shores of the Baltic sea. This intriguing fleshy mass so seamlessly joined between its various parts that under certain light conditions seem to flow into each other like mercury has been the reason why so many expeditions have been set up, which, to this day have been rigorously surveying its every aspect. The most acclaimed scientists have been involved in its research, the most innovative tools and techniques have been incorporated and even invented for the particular purpose to carefully probe and map its physiognomy, its internal parts and organs, by means of minuscule lenses without a single laceration. Thus through prolonged stay of all those involved and the expansion of research centres, clinics, residences, roadways, etc., a community has formed with its own imperatives increasing in its size and stretching outward,reflexively moulded on the example of its diminutive twin; ∑Microsurgery= i

Anti referent #501 R17: Rusiogremryc

Lid

141|25|3277. 12 9 4/Lid: Once a crowded and thriving centre of commerce, this trilateral town hinged on its vertex like a cap hovering over the landscape, is now fully evacuated, given to tiny critters who lethargically crawl along its once buzzing streets in a barren forest of empty offices, closed shops, the creaking sound of distressed swaying shutters slamming against the windows of abandoned flats. Everything here has come to an end, even the sleep of the dreaming statue in the middle of the square patiently waiting for her lover against the occasional cloud puffs of factory stacks, now extinguished, her half open eyes, shut; ∑Lid= G

Anti referent #500 I13: Idl

Knot

141|24|3276. 11 14 15 20/Knot: Nothing could prepare one for what lies behind the gargantuan presence of these four strongholds, resolutely tied together as it were by the unity of an eloquent testimonial; to what we don't know, but appearing from a distance like a tightly knit regularity of a honeycomb construction with deep hollow recesses, an impression that gets increasingly fuzzier upon approach. A hazy atmosphere thickened with piles of zigzagging bridges and alleys, deafening murmurs of overlapping sounds, intersecting queues of patrons, some of whom have been waiting for their entire lives, by now having forgotten how or why they got there; for it seems they too, when they first entered, as any newcomer for a mere visit, before having a chance to locate themselves, they were instantly accused of trying to cut in, and sent further in and behind by an objecting person who is always there first, and so one is inexorably moved and removed from one line to the next, progressively backwards, buried behind a bewildering clutter of confusion and irredeemable longing; ∑Knot= F

Anti referent #499 O32: Onkt

Juliet

141|29|3275. 10 21 12 9 5 20 3 1 16/Juliet cap: Woven to chart a new beginning, the warps and the wefts of these neurons at 23 Via Capello intersect at 9 crucial nodes from where vectors radiate out in space and time. Here is where the brides come to clothe themselves in the lace of their dreams before bidding their oath- "Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride"; ∑Juliet cap= P

Anti referent #498 C39: Cleptuaij

Isolate

 141|14|3274. 9 19 15 12 1 20 5/Isolate:  Ever since the plague broke out, the police, first started by replacing the street names with numbers, based on which, check points were set up every few blocks alternating between odd and even numbers. Within a relatively short period as the epidemic continued to worsen, the block structure was replaced with seven rings around a cylindrical observation tower from where the entire city could be observed by a few watchmen. The residents whose information had been carefully collected were screened through a strict monitoring system of having to step out into view, they were further instructed to indiscriminately report suspicious cases; The individual thought to have been inflicted with the terrible disease would then be removed by a special task force and taken to a ward outside of town. This was the beginning of a seamless pact between the police and the ordinary citizen, recruited as reluctant informers deemed imperative for the overall good of the community, which through time would include eavesdropping and reporting the slightest deviations from the law enacted by the state. And a society was born with long coats and glances, full of tics, where every individual was implicated, singled out as a potential suspect, subject to scrutiny, interrogations, court proceedings, persecutions. And yet no one, neither the informants, nor the police, nor the judiciary, know the nature of the charge. The accused, both, anonymous and identified- for here everyone is known as suspect- subjected to the machinery of law, stands as accused (as [Joseph K]) without an accusation; ∑Isolate= i

Anti referent #497 L16:  Latiose

Hogshead

141|24|3273. 8 15 7 19 8 5 1 4/Hogshead: The great amnesia of 1423 that swept the region is said to have left hardly anything behind, the date or even the fact of its occurrence is in doubt, given credence ironically by the lack of memory, or fabulations in embroidered covers sold as souvenirs, which have mythologized the foundation of these 8 precincts as carefully planned by mathematicians. According to these legends the now forgotten planning stages is founded on some elegant ratio between a given volume and the weight of certain substances, derived from feral pigs skull. The type of substance that make up the volume is not specific and can range between kegs of wine, beer, barrels of tobacco, or even cans of sardines; and the basis of the measurement is also sometimes disputed, with some attributing the magical ratio to the skull of an ox instead, not quite knowing how to differentiate between the two since there are no surviving records of what is meant by either of them. Here, though we see them everywhere, carefully indexed, inflated with significance, painted on streets, on building envelopes, on advertisement boards glowing in Neon, on laboratory jars, at home or bars, the guarantee of numbers has been fully erased; unwarranted, they are now the minted currency of its fluctuating certainties; ∑Hogshead= M

Anti referent #496 S27: Shegodah

Gland

141|16|3272. 7 12 1 14 4/Gland: Ever since their discovery, these 5 lumpy structures have changed entirely the criteria of judgement, that is because their moist throbbing appearance and the territory of their domain is not ideally suited to be seen and therefore not prone to verifiable observation. Here there are neither dawn or dusk, what matters is not time, what drives them is not purpose, it functions unconsciously, without an underlying organizational principle, but by the stream of permeating processes that maintain its equilibrium; and nevertheless the broader context that they are a part of, its delights and sorrows, its sustenance, is dependent on the indifferent promptness of their operation; ∑Gland= K

Anti referent #495 D31: Dalng

Flamenco

141|20|3271. 6 12 1 13 5 14 3 15/Flamenco: The eight provinces in the Southernmost part of the Iberian Peninsula do not just constitute the administrative division of the region, they comprise its different realities, that while indeed detached, they owe the vigor of their independence to the contrasting qualities that finds its broader expression in the ebb and flow of their mix, the fusion of their discords, the heated collision of glassy stares, the percussion of uproarious chatter and steps, slaps, their clasping claps, the mutilated cry of a let down lover tragically hung on strings; the blurred spectre of a hurrying red that swirls and swirls like a furious rose, winding and binding the melodic staccato of extremes; ∑Flamenco= O

Anti referent #494 O31: Ofcleman

Equator

141|8|3270. 5 17 21 1 20 15 18/Equator: Spread along a circumference measuring 40,007km, it is impossible to see all the seven continents at once, and though there are easier methods of travel whether by fast modes of transportation, or more conveniently by way of television mini series, or virtual reality digital simulations, there are still those who prefer the felt duration of this circular journey to the commodious satisfactions of instantaneous spectacle. Thence they embark on their Homeric journey stepping on the footsteps of their predecessors, navigating the marked shipping lanes in the oceans; and to reduce the strain on their patience, they trickle down their itinerary according to terrestrial phenomena or cosmic events, growing sensitive to fluctuations of various wavelengths, the subtle gradations of light, the breadth of days, the yardage of nights, they pace their journey based on certain benchmarks- they know for instance that for the sun to be directly above their head, between the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, they must have traveled about a quarter of their journey, or similarly between the solstices where the sun is between 47 to 23.5 degrees off the zenith; Encounters that their exclusive features make of them occasions for celebration, when they allow themselves slight deviations- indulging in contrasting seasonal pleasures on either sides, or watching cyclones change the direction of their spin as they move from North to South or South to North. And through all this, with the iterations of events, the emergence of patterns and cycles, the trajectory of time, comes the realization that their journey is a concurring choreography of leaps about a rotational cosmic vessel in its elliptical dance with the sun; ∑Equator= P

Anti referent #493 Q6: Quotera

Daguerreotype

141|20|3269. 4 1 7 21 5 18 18 5 15 20 25 16 5/Daguerreotype:
What was once the old defensive wall delineating the city has now been replaced by city blocks, including the thirteen monolithic theatres between the two boulevards sliced by streets. Each day with their highly polished claddings punctuated by small apertures, they mirror a panoramic mis-en-scene of their surrounding, while randomly letting through the impregnated light that transfixes its images on silver plates placed on stage, from where they lift off as apparitions facing an eager audience, who has promptly arrived at the appointed time to see the daily performance; ∑Daguerreotype= G

Cabriolet

141|16|3268. 3 1 2 18 9 25 12 5 20/Cabriolet: The nine parts that comprise this curious apparatus, each autonomous, they not only fulfill their distinct role in their respective structural hierarchy, facilitating a smooth transition of airflow that glides past the consonants and vowels; in evoking their signifying other by way of utterance, they concurrently summon a rebus of released fantasies, so that upon entry one at once embarks on a journey galloping through a swerving trajectory of time in a matter of the short few seconds it takes to form its sound and with it a thought that throws us elsewhere along its indeterminate path; ∑Cabriolet= N

Anagram: Coal biter; Coal tribe; Rice bloat

Anti referent #491 A27: Arbeticol

Bearing

141|18|3267. 2 5 1 18 9 14 7/Bearing: The seven forts built with stone upon stone, initially erected to defend the city, have been expanded in their function on many different levels, each given a different name overseeing different departments, ranging from governance and public works to the private spheres, and forming with each passing year virtual strands that link their activities, in turn making up the complex matrix that self regulate a traffic of intensities, where every action, the slightest utterance or movement is registered, analyzed, and computed to deflect or enhance its impact, not only tolerating the forces but when appropriate unleashing them to the overall effect of its reciprocal plasticity; ∑Bearing= K

Anagrams: Barge in

Anti referent #450 G20: Geriban

Azure

141|6|3266. 1 26 2118 5/Azure: Looking without seeing, blind sighted and Enthralled by the five telluric outcrops of Lapis Lazuli on the remarkable elevations of Badakhshan, the devotees and the tourists alike who cross the arduous rugged terrain to reach its plateau, whether compelled by the sanctity of a fetishized reverence, or obediently following a caravan of fellow enthused hikers strung behind a conversant guide - in the end soaked with a combined sense of serenity and pride, they return with their bag full of kitsch souvenirs, leaflets, the sacred blue dust- having invariably failed to notice the vaulted mosaic of the sky above and their winged workers who have assiduously been constructing it; ∑Azure= H

anti referent #489  Z5: Zurea

Zabaglione

140|2|52. 26 1 2 1 7 12 9 15 14 5/Zabaglione: it is not entirely implausible that after centuries plagued by invasions and rivalries, during the age of discovery, when innovations in trade and agriculture made contentions to structure themselves along different lines, and paved the way for more amenable deliberations than war- peace should have arrived in this specific meadow in Mugello, a countryside in Northern Tuscany during dessert. Here in commemoration of ten battles, there were erected ten stone tables, each fashioned after the distinctiveness of their trench, only now to their waists, the combatants come together on the appointed days to exchange their bitter memories of war with the restorative properties of dialogue sweetened with diaphanous custard; ∑Zabaglione= K

Anti referent #488 B22:  Bogenaliza;

Y

140|1|25. 25/Y: it has been said, accurately or not that towards the end, when pouring the 25th footing of language, a feud was was ensued between the engineers who demanded an utmost quality of artisanship within a shortest possible time on the one hand, and the workers who complained of a lack of adequate instructions as to what exactly was expected of them on the other hand. For until now nothing of the sort had been attempted, and in spite of their acrimonious wranglings, all sides conceded to the fact that there were no precedents, no strand of logic yet available to compute the required ratio between the elemental units of speech sound to warrant the stability of an outpouring weight of communication. Thus after days, or rather centuries of putting language on hold, reasoning why a quantitative relation between sound forms should be required after all, an agreement was finally reached on a provisional hybrid made of an acute angle given a tail, allowing the constricted consonant to glide by way of a vowel when under stress. As a matter of precaution the result was first tested with foreign loan words before being fully admitted to the current structure of significations, having since become a tenured stakeholder of sense and nonsense alike; ∑Y= 25

X

140|1|24. 24/X: in a mountainous fertile region near Orchomenus in West Arcadia, at first a single bar that comprised all the various structures and necessities of the community, spread linearly, housing its municipalities, markets, its residences and their spiritual institutions, their factories and prison houses, as well as their highly developed road structure and high speed transit traveling without interruption in a loop along a North-South vector of its orientation; a sudden onrush of interests drawn by the ingenuity of its pristine efficiency, presented an urgency to separate the expediency of its utility as a living machine from the leisurely detour of its visitors; and thus a decision was made by duplicating the city such that now two seemingly identical bars cross each other at their centres- one driven by the dutiful promptness of a clockwork to ensure its perpetual operation; and the other by the synchronicity of its simulations and conjectures given to amusement. Throughout the years the two have come to be signified by a single sound-form that utters "Eks", or "Aks", and in some languages denote both: 'a replica as in an image', and, 'the opposite of something'; ∑X=24

When

140|23|3265. 23 8 5 14/When: In the course of its existence the four sided polygon comprising the present republic has been through innumerable transformations in every aspect, the extent and geometry of its borders have been persistently breached by the neighbouring rivals that has triggered epic wars which have never been fully settled since there are no traces to chart the initial settlements on either sides; empires have been overthrown and replaced by other empires, occupiers have taken possession of it again and again, petty kings, oligarchs; revolutions have carved through it with the boring power of cyclones; ideologies have spread like an epidemic; religion with its long garb have shrouded its communities like a vampire; poets who resurrected its myths have been crushed; art has been sidelined to obsolete claptrap, their nudes forbidden, public executions have replaced them, celebrated as the official device of aesthetic experience; and their songs and language have changed, their textbooks censored and rewritten with every shift of power-totalitarian jargon enforced by the police, knowledge is appropriated, institutionalized and recruited as their weapon; the testimony of ruins have been wiped given to corporate parks under the rubric of memorials; histories condemned to amnesia are fully refurbished or manufactured; time itself has been prolonged, hours are inversely customized to obscure its regressions. All this and other innumerable flurries of manipulations afforded to power structures obtain entirely new organizations of fabricated facts such that when we browse its libraries turned to a morgue of defunct texts, shelves filled with urns of ashed scribbles, neither the legitimacy of their truth nor the credibility of its presence as the embodiment of a probable past and its future could be verified; ∑When= E

Anti referent #487 N17: Newh

Videlicet

140|32|3264. 22 9 4 5 12 9 3 5 20/Videlicet: What threads through the 9 distinct light houses along the coast corresponding to consecutive longitudes from West to East; each built with a different technique, gradually less opaque in successive steps –the last tower made fully transparent; and each tower though made taller than the norm, also made successively taller than the preceding one, rising well above the arc of horizon- is not only to fulfill their use as maritime navigational aid, for they far exceed their utility, but to search for a certain boat that used to frequent the port city and motivated these upright species with a bit of emotion, that is to say having now been grafted with desire they are left with the anxiety and the pain of longing which they let out in streaks of blue light thrown into the horizon ; ∑Videlicet= Q

Anti referent #486 C38: Clievedit