An entitled opinion

". . . people who don't read are acosmic, poor in worlds."
- from Robert Harrison's podcast monologue on The Man Without Qualities:

Phaistos Disk synchronicity

Yesterday I first heard of the Phaistos Disk (considered by some to be the earliest book) in a document designed to teach high school students about artists' books. Today while idly trying to display a random Unicode character in Google Docs - the kind that looks like this

if you don't have the right font installed - I came upon an enchanting set of glyphs from the Phaistos Disk. If only I could figure out how to display them on my computer. I installed the Code2001 font but no joy. Especially love the tattooed head which should look like this . . .

Duelling tree haikus

cj:
Long soft grass,
blue wood,
shadows.

mj:
Maple, linden, gingko
pine leaves
death.

– Morton Arboretum, 10/14/09, 2 pm

et al.

Per Wikipedia, stands for et alii and is masculine . . . "so it can be used for men, or groups of men and women; the feminine, et aliae (or et aliæ), is appropriate when the 'others' are all female. Et alia is neuter plural and thus properly used only for inanimate, genderless objects, but some use it as a gender-neutral alternative."