mortality / left hand
I cannot dilute a word with meaning
as I dilute my whiskey with water.
— Ryuichi Tamura, "The World Without Words," translated by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura (1998); appeared also in New Directions (annual) 22 (1970)
image ex scan — since corrected? — of Westinghouse Code (1902) : 136
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9 May 2012
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