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torn / like a Turkoman cap / a something of that sort / Now it’s easy.   ₁

 
There certainly was a something of the air and figure;
but a lapse of years   ₂
a something of what has been, or they must be   ₃
in some direction or other, somewhere or other.
 
a something of what was ready in the way   ₄
a chiffre or symbol; a something of which we have no proof, yet feel must be   ₅
metretik art’ at first, as if it denoted a something of great tangibility   ₆
a (something) of language — hence   ₇
 
a sort of canvas roof or curtain in the air,
incessantly blown and flapped by a something
of an immaterial unknown and unknowable wind.   ₈
a something of doubtful value as a sound,   ₉
 
leaves on which time writes his oracles scattered like those of the Sybil. ₃
𐌗 a “Something” of which in general we can know nothing at all.   ₁₀
files of old   ₃   a “something” of crystal gazing   ₁₁
noodles and nobodies   ₃
 
 

sources, their respective details at the more’s

  1. glosses to translation, The Adventures of Haji Baba of Ispahan, translated from English into Persian by Hājī Sheikh Ahmad-i Kirmānī and edited with notes by Major D. C. Phillott (Calcutta, 1905) / more
  2. The Child of Mystery, A Novel, in three volumes, Founded on Recent Events. By Sarah [Scudgell] Wilkinson. (London, 1808) / more
  3. OCR cross-column misread, at “Foote’s Sketches of Virginia” (by “B”), in The Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond, Virginia; February 1850) / more
    see also, or, noodles and doodles, via asfaltics 0074
  4. Douglas Craven Phillott, Higher Persian Grammar for the Use of the Calcutta University; showing Differences between Afghan and Modern Persian, with Notes on Rhetoric (1919) / more
  5. correspondence referring to “The Unknowable,” in The Open Court (Chicago, April 5, 1888) / more
  6. “A Few Words on Utilitarianism” (by “R. W.” [Robert Williams]), in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (August 1869) / more
  7. from a discussion of what logic is “about” — taking as a convenient example Benson Mates his Elementary Logic (1965) — in Charles Pyle, “Logic, Markedness, and Language Universals” (July 11, 1991) / more
  8. Pasternak, quoted in Chapter 6, “‘An Atheist Who Has Lost His Faith’ : The Prose and Verse of Boris Pasternak,” in Daniel Murphy, Christianity and Modern European Literature (1997) / more
  9. “Considered Trifles” in The Editor (February 12, 1916) / more
  10. Martin Heidegger, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Fifth Edition, Enlarged (1991; Richard Taft, trans., 1997) / more
  11. Mildred Kennedy, “Mirror Gazing” (on exercises for practicing speech, for the deaf and hard of hearing) in Volta Review (December 1918) / more
     

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