putterings, 401-396
or useless things, collecting; shooling ₁,
on the dot uncertain doing
the occasional on automatic
reading the seismograph, the samplers, watching the skies
checking to the west to see how close
than the rest of us did trying to get somewhere.
Cora brooded; Ruth, Elenda
he would have done it from the other end, just put it quietly aside
not thoroughly mastered or understood. ₂
Notes & Queries puttering misc.,
puttering about with little and unimportant things
diaries and memo books,
perforated sheets wasting
time in China; time well spent
the chore reading becomes even so
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- shooling
from Old English sċofl (“shovel”)...
To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
to shuffle or shamble
to loaf or idle about begging -
Jon Schueler (1916-92), on Ray Parker’s earlier paintings; see asfaltics : 1405