tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94085312024-03-08T05:33:37.895-06:00Brief Epigramsmore or less
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.comBlogger378125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-67353240490720624322018-09-23T15:21:00.002-05:002018-09-23T15:25:24.622-05:00The Old Person and the Sea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
decided to gender-neutralized Hemingway's novella, The Old Man and the Sea.<br />
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Excerpt below: Full PDF story here: <a href="http://www.ryanamacdonald.com/Ryan_A._Macdonald/The_Old_Person_and_the_Sea.html" target="_blank">The Old Person and the Sea</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 24.5pt;">Gender
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">They were an
old person who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and they had gone
eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a person
had been with them. But after forty days without a fish the person's parents
had told them that the old person was now definitely and finally <i>salao</i>,
which is the worst form of unlucky, and the person had gone at their orders in
another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the person
sad to see the old person come in each day with their skiff empty and they
always went down to help them carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and
harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with
flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The old
person was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of their neck. The
brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection
on the tropic sea were on their cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of
their face and their hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish
on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions
in a fishless desert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Everything
about them was old except their eyes and they were the same color as the sea
and were cheerful and undefeated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Santiago,"
the person said to them as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was
hauled up. "I could go with you again. We've made some money."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The old
person had taught the person to fish and the person loved them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"No,"
the old person said. "You're with a lucky boat. Stay with them."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"But
remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big
ones every day for three weeks."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"I
remember," the old person said. "I know you did not leave me because
you doubted."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"It was
papa-momma made me leave. I am a person and I must obey them."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"I
know," the old person said. "It is quite normal."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"They
haven't much faith."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"No,"
the old person said. "But we have. Haven't we?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Yes,"
the person said. "Can I offer you a beer on the Terrace and then we'll
take the stuff home."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Why
not?" the old person said. "Between fisherpeople."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">They sat on
the Terrace and many of the fisherpeople made fun of the old person and they
were not angry. Others, of the older fisherpeople, looked at them and were sad.
But they did not show it and they spoke politely about the current and the
depths they had drifted their lines at and the steady good weather and of what
they had seen. The successful fisherpeople of that day were already in and had
butchered their marlin out and carried them laid full length across two planks,
with two people staggering at the end of each plank, to the fish house where
they waited for the ice truck to carry them to the market in Havana. Those who
had caught sharks had taken them to the shark factory on the other side of the
cove where they were hoisted on a block and tackle, their livers removed, their
fins cut off and their hides skinned out and their flesh cut into strips for
salting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">When the
wind was in the east a smell came across the harbour from the shark factory;
but today there was only the faint edge of the odour because the wind had
backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the
Terrace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Santiago,"
the person said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Yes,"
the old person said. They were holding their glass and thinking of many years
ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Can I
go out to get sardines for you for tomorrow?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"No. Go
and play baseball. I can still row and Rogelio will throw the net."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"I
would like to go. If I cannot fish with you, I would like to serve in some
way."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"You
bought me a beer," the old person said. "You are already a
person."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/214252426">mood</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-19510491392478668922017-04-21T18:24:00.002-05:002017-04-21T18:25:40.525-05:00Anxious lavender Venus de Milo in 90's Midwestern apartment with Sibylle Baire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/213758653">Anxious lavender Venus De Milo in 90's Midwestern apartment with Sibylle Baire</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-58360651089091160162017-03-26T20:48:00.001-05:002017-03-26T20:48:32.588-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/210184617">Ephebe, Suburbs, Gary Numan</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-14333687437624203482017-03-03T20:41:00.001-06:002017-03-03T20:41:25.926-06:00Stalin Bust Melt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/206517421">Stalin</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-35292127697938873912017-03-03T20:40:00.005-06:002017-03-03T20:40:57.172-06:00Protect Trans Kids<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/206517325">protect trans kids</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-31369024260466481532017-03-03T20:40:00.002-06:002017-03-03T20:40:23.085-06:00Hermes over Icelandic Sea Crag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/206517167">Hermes</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-55370695692608556182017-03-03T20:39:00.002-06:002017-03-03T20:39:37.564-06:00Horse Falls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/206516907">horse falls</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-6538536362937837392017-03-03T20:38:00.002-06:002017-03-03T20:38:36.936-06:00Bird Ball Mountain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/204378734">bird ball mountain</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-79997411597565325582017-03-03T20:38:00.000-06:002017-03-03T20:38:05.221-06:00Goofy Ghost on Coffee Table with Pig, Bowl of Silver Fruit and Golden Particle Swarm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/203311356">goofy ghost on coffee table with pig, bowl of silver fruit and golden particle swarm</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-84228816988347631582017-03-03T20:37:00.000-06:002017-03-03T20:37:05.978-06:00Goethe Death Mask with Particle Sphere Swarm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/203309731">goethe death mask with particle sphere swarm</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-59863978416298213392017-03-03T20:36:00.000-06:002017-03-03T20:36:02.558-06:00Ich Bin Tanzen <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/188469371">ich bin tanzen</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-76249817263036146262017-02-22T20:00:00.000-06:002017-02-22T20:00:45.808-06:00PHANTOM PUNCH: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">Rarely post here anymore but I saw this show <a href="http://www.bates.edu/museum/exhibitions/current/phantom-punch-contemporary-art-from-saudi-arabia-in-lewiston-maine/" target="_blank">Phantom Punch at Bates College</a> and was</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">thoroughly impressed with the work and the remarkable curation. Below are two pieces I spent a lot of time with.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.ahaadalamoudi.com/" target="_blank">Ahaad Abdulaziz Alamoudi</a>: v=YGvLDDWwLEk </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">This GIF is an outtake, I believe, of his video installation. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Wish I could find it online!</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.arwaalneami.com/" target="_blank">Arwa Al Neami</a>: Never Never Land (Extract)</div>
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Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-18054965125490850982017-01-03T10:19:00.000-06:002017-01-03T10:19:04.701-06:00Spectacle, Speculation, Spam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/194963450">Spectacle, Speculation, Spam</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/alanwarburton">Alan Warburton</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-52194735046045924092016-05-07T21:38:00.001-05:002016-05-07T21:38:34.358-05:00Amazing Review! Observable Characteristics of Organisms-Ryan MacDonald | KROnline<a href="http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2016-spring/selections/the-observable-characteristics-of-organisms-by-ryan-macdonald-738439/#.Vy6miMQ_4oY.blogger">Observable Characteristics of Organisms-Ryan MacDonald | KROnline</a>Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-67859411609786455772016-02-16T22:08:00.002-06:002016-02-16T22:08:29.095-06:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-70395307011107918962016-01-24T15:21:00.001-06:002016-01-24T15:21:10.383-06:00Camouflage Country Book Trailer <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/149505296">Camouflage Country: Book Trailer</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4f6f6; color: #4e5a5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px;">Book Trailer for short story collection Camouflage Country by Ryan Ridge and Mel Bosworth. Out Dec 22nd 2015 from Queen's Ferry Press. </span><a href="http://queensferrypress.com/">queensferrypress.com</a><br />
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Animation designed after books illustrations by Jacob Heustis </div>
Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-48229353277913256172016-01-24T15:15:00.003-06:002016-01-24T15:17:32.208-06:00Blow the Man Down: as featured at the New Digital Art Biennale; Thewrong.org<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/146354662">Blow the Man Down</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user1433621">Ryan MacDonald</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Ryan MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956366116648682821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9408531.post-50424415662725111782015-06-18T11:42:00.000-05:002015-06-18T11:42:00.333-05:00Praise for Camouflage Country <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; word-spacing: 1.39999997615814px;">happy to have blurbed my 1st book, happier still that it was camouflage country by Mel Bosworth and Ryan Ridge with illustrations by Jacob Heustis, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 1; word-spacing: 1.39999997615814px;">from Queen's Ferry press. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.camouflagecountry.net/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;">"Swallow this book like it’s the last cold Michelob Ultra. Read it, do a little dance, then take it out back and shoot it. Take down this book like it’s the last thing you will ever do in this life, because I’m telling you, it most likely will be. Be with this book, and I mean be</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;"> with it. Is it poetry? Is it prose? Who the hell cares. Bosworth and Ridge are great literary beasts by themselves, to be read often and carefully. Together they have become one wild fucking animal. These are the real bits of us, the hidden bits and the exposed, laid out in one stunning sentence after another. I’ll always keep </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;">Camouflage Country </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;">close by--</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;">I cried laughing, I have never read anything like it." --</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;">Ryan</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;">MacDonald</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;">, author of</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'News Cycle'; font-size: 16.1000003814697px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 2.6; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: relative; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0.1em;">The Observable Characteristics of Organisms </em></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.camouflagecountry.net/" target="_blank">"Twenty things I want to say about Ryan Ridge and Mel Bosworth: 1) Did Poetry write these men into being? 2) Poetry was in a weird mood. 3) They’re good, you should know. 4) Like really, really good. 5) Repeat winners of Sentence of the Year. 6) Where do they get off? 7) Where do they get on, for that matter? 8) Can they show otherwriters the place? 9) Scratch that last question 10) What I was meaning to say: there should be laws against these men. 11) Or at least a temporary injunction. 12) It’s like, Hold on! 13) We need to catch our breaths! 14) We need to unpretzel our minds! 15) Breath nets. 16) Mind…. 17) What? 18) Look what you’ve done to me here. 19) Just look.20) See what I mean?"—Scott Garson, author of Is that You, John Wayne?</a></div>
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