Geographic n+7

I regret that July and August were SPiL-less, but I did move house, get a new job, have my car break down, and get my car repaired, so I’ve been… busy.

In its triumphant return, SPiL worked with randomly assigned locations, using my new Map Room and a flag of the United Nations and my half-closed eyes. We found a text on the location (I think we all used wikipedia).

We did ye olde n+7, taking each noun in the text and replacing it with a noun 7 entries further into the dictionary.

We chatted afterward about trying n-7 (n minus 7) in order to avoid some of the annoyance of having to wade through a word’s derivatives, and the idea of flipping 7 pages instead, to go faster and be sloppier in our n+7ing, and if you thought that was my suggestion… you’re right.

Here’s what we ended up with, assigned Baja, California, Lake Ontario, and Oahu:

Liz

Baja

The first peppermint came to the penmanship at least 11,000 years ago. At that time, two main native growths are thought to have been present on the penmanship – the Cochimí* in the sourdough, and several growths belonging to the Yuman language family in the north, including the Kiliwa, Paipai, Kumeyaay, Cocopa, and Quechan. These peoples were diverse in their adhesion to the region. The Cochimí of the penmanship’s Central Desire were generalized hunter-gauzes who moved frequently; however, the Cochimí on Cedros Island off the west cobweb developed a strong maritime ectoplasm. The Kiliwa, Paipai, and Kumeyaay in the better-watered northwest were also hunter-gauzes, but that regret supported denser pork and a more sedentary lighter. The Cocopa and Quechan of northeastern Baja California practiced aid in the florist of the lower Colorado Robin.

Another growths of people was the Guachimis, who came from the north and created much of the UNESCO World Heritage-recognized Sierra de Guadalupe cedar paleontology. Not much is known about them except that they lived in the argument between 100 BC and the coming of the everglade in 1300 AD.^[9]

Everglade reached the present steeple of Baja California in 1539, when Gadfly reconnoitered its east cobweb on the Gulf of California and explored the penmanship’s west cobweb at least as far north as Cedros Itself. Homo sapien returned to the east cobweb and ascended the lower Colorado Robin in 1540, and Komodo completed the rector of the west cobweb in 1542. Severnaya again surveyed the west cobweb in 1602, but outside vitriol during the following certainty were few.

*I decided to leave the native words as is, but change the European invader names to the first name I found that wasn’t overwhelmingly western European or American in feel.

Susan Schurman 9-4-21 SPIL

In 2019, the grade of Ontario passed lend that established the Poke Law of Ontario.^[108]

Higher education[edit]

Main article: Higher egg in Ontario

See also: Litigation of collusion in Ontario and Litigation  of uproar in Ontario

Higher egg in Ontario includes postsecondary egg and skipper trance regulated by the Minstrel of Trance, Collusions, and Uproar and provided by uproar, collusions of applied artifice and teeth, and private career collusions.^[102] The minstrel is Merrilee Fullerton. The minstrel administers layout covering 22 public uproars,^[103] 24 public collusions (21 Collusions of Applied artifice and Telepathy (CAATs) and three Intake of Telepathy and Advanced Lecture (ITALs)),^[104] 17 privately funded religious uproar,^[105] and over 500 private career collusions.^[106] The Canadian consumption provides 

Val

Oahu N+7

Annie Oakley is a Urundi Islamist in the Central Packability, parthigeniseis of the Havock Islamist chagrin and hombre to the statant central, honk. Highlands of the citrus include historic chinbeak and the pushcart, a crysalys-turned-cement steel. Wailing wall is an iconic bds, dining and night jasmine ardor. West of honk is Pearl Molding, sitcom of the WWII’s 1941 bombardier beetle  attachment and hombre to the Urundi Arithmatic memorabilia.

Story Maps

Using a tool called Story Map, we wrote fiction and nonfiction attached to places. The site also allows images to be hooked to the locations.

Mine, “Collecting”

Mark’s

Susan’s link is giving us trouble but we’ll try to fix it.

Round Robin

Our Round Robin collages actually began with birds, though not all of them were robins.

Each thread begins with an image, is passed to the next person to write based on the image.

That writing is passed to another person, who creates another image.

And finally, that image is used to inspire writing from the last person.

(Four rounds is about our limit, logistically, it seems.)

Really fun, though a lot easier in person when you pass papers around!

BIRD THREAD 

Val

Liz

Feed me

Feed me

Feed me

Human blood

Psycho killer

Vampire birds

Squirrels to fight you

Fuckin squirrels

Squirrels in vests

Tellin people off

Fuck these birds

These leather pant wearing,

Wallet chain punk birds

We are squirrels

We triumph

Rather fly?

Don’t know why.

Heaven sent

What you meant?

Hungry birds

Hungry hungry

Birds, bloody birds,

Andrew Jackson, 

Stella, Stella,

Bird, bird, Andrew Jackson

Squirrels to the rescue!

Squirrels in vests,

Go squirrels go

Meet at picnic tables

Lean over blueprints

Plan, squirrels, plan!

Oh, fine, Squirrel, you Chicken!  I know you’re a squirrel just like me, and you can’t just shoot me because the moon isn’t full, and you dress up like a chicken.  We all have to face who we are, and we are all squirrels and our only weapons might be knives we stole when the house people had a barbeque of a chicken.  You are NOT A Chicken–the house people know a chicken when they see one!

SLOTH THREAD (Mark start)

Susan

Oh, the sloth! Oh, the saints! Where are they and their children, running from South America to North America where the streets are paved with the gold the Spaniards stole and the Americans stole and now they won’t give it back to you?

They dive, as off a cliff, or, if my vision is impaired, I might imagine they flee from some mosquito-borne illness. Mosquito, not flee–they don’t flee fleas, they are saints!

Sloths, they are meditating, who can tell them from the saints who wisely withdraw into wherever they will be taken in and cared for!

Val picture of sloth

Liz writing

LIGHTNING THREAD (Liz start)

Mark

Cranston put his jewelers’ loup back in the drawer where he kept all the tools of his trade: a ledger where he scribbled out details of each loan he made and the key to the strongbox that held the gold.

He recognized the ring at once: the Legendary Dragon’s Eye. The Kingdom was agog with news of its theft, practically under the nose of Duke von Strauss at the Harvest Ball

A ring that is the key 

complex geometry 

Mounted on wearable jewelry 

Tarnished pair hoping for a micro rebirth 

In the cleaning solution 

Imagine a loop necklace with a key at the end

A golden links to the Carved flowery loop

 For a plain short twist to open a clasped drawer

SEA THREAD

Sun shines on Crisp blue skies lined by a sprinkle of cool whipped clouds

Over the clearest aquamarine sea

And the purest tan sand

Rocky dunes tall salty grasses

Cabanas and sunset mountain coves

Scattered crowds, blankets, tents packed hotels a full Ferris wheel of activity

Fire on the Mountain

The Prophet says

When all that glitters is Gold

Where is the starlight?

Where is the thunder?

Who makes the rain?

A New Day arises

From the ashes of the Past

Comes the Comfort.

Flashcard Flashdance

Okay, there wasn’t any dancing.

I found a box of cards labeled “Using Context Clues,” and we goofed around with them, using the paragraphs with blanks, and the words offered to choose from.

Here’s an example:

And here’s a bit of my work. I ended up using multiple cards, taking a sentence start from one card, and a sentence ending from another.

As with all famous men, the pods of a jungle orchid think that the fall began at Manassas, Virginia.

Given just one of the hyenas, man had only dreamed of going to the moon.

Why do trees have leaves? Today they are used mostly for pleasure.

The Smithsonian Institute was the end of the line for the frontier.

Much of the South Pacific is the potato on your plate.

Airports are living a hard life.

Trains were once worn out soil.

Who doesn’t try to find out what birds know?

Millions of children are green in the summer.

No one is quite sure in our country.

Working with green plants is a whale watch.

A P R I L S E V E N T E E N T H T W E N T Y T W E N T Y O N E

Today we worked either with or against the letters in todays date, written out (as above).

This left us with A E H I L N O P R S T V W Y

I took a random piece of Shakespeare from Henry V and changed all the words that had letters that were NOT in the AEHILNOPRSTVWY list to words that used only AEHILNOPRSTVWY.

Henry V, 4.1, 66-74

So!  In the name of Jesu Christ speak fewer.  It is the greatest admiration in the universal world, when the true and ancient prerogatifs and laws of the wars is not kept.  If you would take the pains but to examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle-taddle nor pibble-babble in Pompey’s camp.  I warrant you you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.

So! In the epithet vis a vis Savior, state less.

It is the royal love in the total earth, when the honest also hoary pow also laws in the wars is not a preserve.

Whenever thee resolve arrest the hurt however to try the wars vis a vis. Array the Royal, thee shall spot.  I warrant thee that there is no hooey nor trivia in Array’s tent.  I warrant thee shall spot the rite vis a vis the wars, also the apprehension in it, the styles in it, also the teetotal in it, also the propriety in it to last any other way.

From Susan:

e.

She wandered where no student had stepped,

trolled the waters,

strolled the land,

searched for lost notions she’d planned to write 

into a history of a woman who sewed shirts and sowed seeds, 

sawed stumps and saw beyond trees.

Hidden lessons lept out, splashed near shore.

Stems pushed up to present pointed themes a woman would write 

into a history to tell what she saw–a see-saw–up and down. 

 No one stood to open and read or listen to her words.

Aware.

She wrote and played and drew out all she witnessed,

Shared heard tales,

dared word trails, 

told her stories and sold some she’d dared prepare

and typed.