year-in, year-out
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Plate X. Fig. 2. — Longitudinal radial section of a 3-year-old twig of tanbark oak, showing the tannin in the pith and the pith ray cells. Magnified 30 diameters.
(cropped from border, squared; sharpened)
ex Willis Linn Jepson, Harold Schofield Betts and Clayton Dissinger Mell. California Tanbark Oak. U.S.D.A., Forest Service, Bulletin 75 (1911)
University of Illinois-Urbana copy, no date of digitization
another copy (U.S.D.A, National Agricultural Library), opens to same page, at archive.org
ditto (University of California), at archive.org
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Yes, duration is the adventure of year-in, year-out,
the adventure of the mundane.
Peter Handke, To Duration
(Scott Abbott translation of Gedicht an die Dauer, 1986, described in Cannon Magazine No. 4 (2015) / The Last Books here)
tags:
duration; oak; order; tanbark; tanning
W. L. Jepson; H. S. Betts; C. Dissinger; Peter Handke