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  by permanently scatterbrainedThe Girl with the Multicolored HairText by Jeff at Omegaword, palettes by COLOURlovers The last time I saw the girl with the multicolored hair, she was following sunbeams through the kitchen door and ran, laughing, out into the world to find another bright friend. The last time I saw the girl with the multicolored hair, she flew above the treetops where the wind blows warm, and clouds were not allowed to interfere with such a perfect sky. The last time I saw the girl with the multicolored hair, she sang to the sparrows and the green, green grass, and rain was always welcome, but only after noon. | 
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[Read the entire article in my guest blog at ColourLovers.com.]
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"Every hope is an egg that may produce a serpent instead of a dove." —Henry Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal--- Jeff writes: This is a quandary. Whether the serpent came first, or the egg, the question was easy on the mind. Now there's a new wildcard in town, and I'm tormented by the thought of rich, dark chocolate.
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We're gobsmacked by all sorts of praise this week: The Serif of Nottingblog
covers our eccentric illustration of the "punctuational theory of
evolution," whimsically saying, "[T]he Abecedaring lexiconleyjurer and
abcderial visualist, Craig Conley ... is an astonishingly
inabecedefatiguable creator and investigator of the world of language:
written, visual, and conceptual."
Anima Tarot covers our short talk on magician Jeff McBride's secret of mastering time: "[A] presentation given by magic scholar and linguist extraordinaire, Craig Conley ... greatly increased my admiration for the artistry of this gifted magician [McBride]." Speaking of that short talk, Martha delightfully tells us we remind her of her favorite professor from college, who could find Greek gods in butter ads! And Ferdinando suggests that our soft-spoken yet confident style recalls someone "channeling a 'higher entity.'" The ever-intriguing Social Fiction kindly covers our diagram of all history contained in a single note of music. And belated thanks to Steve Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon for calling our Magic Words: A Dictionary "a very impressive collection of magic words from all over the world." |
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Saint Chuck
Patron of High Rolls.
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With his red and blue pencil the blue- eyed, red- faced official made little crosses here and there on the papers, showing Krug where to sign.
—Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister, 1947.
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Certainty #18: "The search for absolute certainty in nature is a fruitless search, because the only certainty is uncertainty, according to the law of uncertainty." — Keith N. Ferreira, Uncertaintyism, 2005 --- Cuc writes: This certainty is more accurate than #2 mentioning change, or #3 mentioning movement, change and metamorphosis. There is a difference between these concepts and #18 that I like to clarify.
This certainty #18 calls it rightfully the "Law of Uncertainty". This does not necessarily refer to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. There is a vaster Law of Uncertainty. It does not mean that everything is uncertain, but that there is a flip side to Uncertainty, namely Opportunity. So, if there is a Law of Uncertainty, then there is a Law of Opportunity, which states that it is certain (#19 ?) that Opportunities will occur for anything determined by a will towards the future (see #12). This Law of Uncertainty is therefore the only Law that can be used in our advantage by using the will, despite the fact that humanity seems to prefer certainty (as the title of this page suggests).
Change and Metamorphosis are not really certain, because the perception of these is subjective. The concepts attached to change and metamorphosis are not as absolute as the Law of Uncertainty. Opportunities arise because of the will and one could call the appearance of an opportunity a change, a phase in the metamorphosis. But more elementary, the Law of Uncertainty has provided the opportunity for these to occur.
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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Violet hills and burnt umber buttes rested in their still American places like novels on Zane Grey’s bookshelf.
—Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, 1977.
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