retarding all progress
Reniement 37803 At present lost in the tailings
Politisch 34827 To slip away
Technique 44166 Is it worth as much as
Technology 44167 It is not worth more than
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“And finally I was left without them [ ‘the stone sculptures, from the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth European centuries’ (258) ]. They no longer said anything to me. I no longer said anything to them. I now had nothing to say or to give to anyone, to take from anyone, and likewise there was no longer anyone to say or give anything to me, to take anything from me. I no longer reacted to anything, either for good or for ill. I was alone. I was without a reference point. I am alone. I am lost.”
ex Peter Handke. Crossing the Sierra de Gredos (2007) : 259
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Temerabat 44218 An entire wreck
Tendinoso 44272 Everything has been put in writing
Oblivion 31531 Retarding all progress
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phrases from McNeill’s (Mining) Code (1899) *
tags:
lost; slipping away; tailings; telegraphic codes
Peter Handke; Bedford McNeill (1899)