Major Minor Goes in for Major Major and the Major Domo is No More

Well the Majors replacement came home last night in a big metal cage that smelled of pee but Brenda cant smell because she was shot in the head in a barroom incident – She needs to leave it on the porch and have Dave hose it down before moving it into the house but she probably won't bother doing that  and he will bitch and moan about the stink

The keys on this old machine are gradually wearing out – already gone are the PERIOD (I’m using the dash), the APOSTROPHY (and if you misspell a word with an apostrophe in it the spell checker will insert it – see Im above), the DELETE (I use backspace instead or a CONTRL X) the LEFT and RIGHT BRACKETS, the RIGHT ARROW, PAGE DOWN and END – In Word you can insert characters from a table, that works but is slow and you can always use the numeric code for the character but thats (I didnt spell check this incidence) tedious too – Joseph Addision wrote an essay on false wit where he bitched about the Greeks who wrote whole poems leaving out specific letters – I guess it also became a mania in the 18th century and recently some French writer wrote a whole novel without any Es - And oh yes, I fogot the QUOTE MARKS (with the quote and the period gone it makes using the Internet difficult - not impossible but hard)

I once read a short story by a Swiss author (I dont remember his name – It was a long time ago) where a man who lived on a mountain alone for his own amusement began replacing the names of things in his room with different words until over the years he forgot what they had originally been called and when he came off his mountain after many years and when into twon, no one could understand him nor could he understand them – There was also a story in the collection about a man who decided to set off on a journey around the earth in a straight line and the last anyone saw of  him he was climbing a ladder over the top of the neighbors house



James Joyce invented new words (we get Quark as in Particle Physics from Joyce) and if you gradually (imperceptivity slowly) introduce them in context so that one is not aware of them (unless you are one of the rare ones who reads with a dictionary – I dont but I note new words down and look them up later and am always amazed how many cannot be found – I just chalk it up to having misspelled them, I am notorious for this) by the end of a very long novel such as Ulysses – well you get the point



I am only doing it one character at a time – on the other hand I could just but an external keyboard, but what fun would that me – the easiest solution is not necessarly the most creative







As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage / Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, / dwells-- / That bird beyond the remembering his free fells; / This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life's age. - Gerald Manley Hopkins

Rendition – the legal proceeding for returning a fugitive salve.
Extraordinary - when someone is flown off in a black jet to be third party
and tortured - not so extraordinary anymore