Sean O'Hagan: Well, 'freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose,' as the great Kris Kristofferson put it. Nick Cave: Sean, exactly! Fuck, I love that song. (From the book 'Faith, Hope, and Carnage'; Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan in a series of conversations during the peak pandemic years.)

Thank you for this, Emily. Sending to friends in the path, including a therapist who's own home was inundated this past week.

I'm familiar with Carr's model. Thank you for this.

What, Coolidge and not Warren G. Harding? (Good soundtrack.)

More a series of questions: What is state of scholarship regarding oral origins of the texts? (I'm not quaified to know.) What was an 'author' as the written texts formed? Would it not be the redactors and compilers who were toward the 'elite' end of the continuum?

The lyrics I was misremembering, I realized without AIs help, were 'the air is getting hotter...' from 'Tryin' To Get To Heaven.' Not sure why the AI insertion annoys me so much.

It is more the society of the nuclear shadow, of the ghost limb. Of the mime unaware they are miming. Wittgenstein's fly in the jar, yes, but more. Or less. The fly in the jar that thinks it's an albatross soaring open seas.

Thinking out loud. Spectacle is the wrong word in English, at least with the connotation of a dazzling or a visual phenomenon out of the ordinary.And with spectacles as a synonym for eyeglasses, implying to see clearly. Cf. Latin spectare....

Another title option, font size very important: naUSea.