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UPDATED OCCASSIONALLY - Jack Vaughan At Kafka's Home --- The magenta purple dawning sky ahead - it lights the foggy green salt marsh and its pools || as the new england corridor train grunt-grouches east at sunrise - on connecticut shores a' dewing || as the train crew talks about geography - and drinks morning black coffee. - June 2010 ---- Strange Edison Electrical Illumination At about the age of 10, Edison goes to the creek with young friend George Lockwood, who disappears in the eddies to drown. Edison observes the creek water for a long time, maybe rapt by the dying Lockwood’s breath bubbles. At last, after the long wait for Lockwood to surface, Edison finally goes home to dinner and to bed without telling anyone about the event. Meanwhile, a party searches for Lockwood – eventually they come to hear Edison’s story of his drowning. Self-taught polymath, noted as a man of amazing concentration. He could look intently at what was there and...
AI Analysis - A psalm
me and Gemini one day in December I can discern repeated patterns of composition in the source material, which appears to be a psalm or a hymn (Psalm 80, based on the context). The patterns are characteristic of ancient Hebrew poetry, particularly the use of parallelism and a refrain . 🎶 Compositional Patterns The most obvious and frequently repeated patterns are: 1. The Refrain (Choral Repetition) A specific plea or request is repeated almost verbatim at key points, serving as a refrain that marks the end of a section and emphasizes the core request. Pattern: " O God, bring us back and make your face shine on us, that we may be saved. " Location Examples: End of stanza 1 (Lines 3-4): "O God bring us back and make your face shine on us and we shall be saved ." (Slight variation: "O God, the God of armies ,") End of stanza 2 (Line 3): "O God of armies, bring us back and make your face shine on us and we shall be saved ." End of stanza 3/Conc...