{"id":6374,"date":"2005-08-14T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/14\/might-be-nothin\/"},"modified":"2005-08-14T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-14T22:00:00","slug":"might-be-nothin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/14\/might-be-nothin\/","title":{"rendered":"Might Be Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>But I&#8217;m going to call it &quot;Compositional Remainders in Four Poles.&quot;&nbsp; What<br \/>\nis it?&nbsp; The papery staplecake wrapping completely around the four telephone<br \/>\npoles at the intersection of<br \/>\n<a  href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.036431,-76.126885&#038;spn=0.005692,0.020262&#038;t=h&#038;hl=en\"><br \/>\nWestcott and Euclid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These fading sprays of tacked paper are visible at the most desirable<br \/>\nlocations&#8211;public, visible, heavily trafficked.&nbsp; Why aren&#8217;t there any<br \/>\nnotices on these four poles today?&nbsp; Who tears down the signs?&nbsp; How<br \/>\nmany years of printed signs are layered here?<\/p>\n<p>More we can say about it? Co-concocted at a busy streetcorner by staplers and<br \/>\nnotice-pullers (the removers of the &quot;Car 4 Sale 145K runs great&quot;).&nbsp; Made<br \/>\nwithout purposeful making.&nbsp; Residua (this, history?) and detritus; a<br \/>\ndead-pulpy reunion: unreadable remainders of <i>remainders of<\/i>&#8230;. An archive<br \/>\nof public writing. A shabby, encrusted blanket of desperation writ: lost dog,<br \/>\nurgent sublet, have you seen this cat?, $$$ painting houses.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33032196@N00\/33978005\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos21.flickr.com\/33978005_7d5effd527_m.jpg?resize=169%2C240\" width=\"169\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Pole 1: SW\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33032196@N00\/33977979\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos23.flickr.com\/33977979_576084839e_m.jpg?resize=240%2C181\" width=\"240\" height=\"181\" alt=\"Poles 2 and 3: NE\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33032196@N00\/33977948\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos21.flickr.com\/33977948_3f073fe2dd_m.jpg?resize=157%2C240\" width=\"157\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Pole 4: NW\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Might be nothing. But if it&#8217;s <i>a nothing<\/i>, that won&#8217;t explain why I<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t stop looking at it every time I walk or drive by, why I can&#8217;t stop feeling<br \/>\nlike it makes the intersection more intersected. (The image below, a close-up of<br \/>\nthe first pole.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33032196@N00\/33978182\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos23.flickr.com\/33978182_2551e1a0d4_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Remainder or One History of Discourse\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>But I&#8217;m going to call it &quot;Compositional Remainders in Four Poles.&quot;&nbsp; What is it?&nbsp; The papery staplecake wrapping completely around the four telephone poles at the intersection of Westcott and Euclid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distances"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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