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Being a directory of derivations from John Macdonald his Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary, Numerically Arranged (1817), all posted at asfaltics between September 23, 2012 and June 11, 2015.

Here are 57 derivations in all, 42 of which involved erasures from three-columned pages (arranged in order of Class not chronology), followed by 15 selections in text only format, sometimes accompanied by image (less consistently arranged).

Title / Class number / tags / date of original posting.
 

1. an ample field for
   Class 2.
   ands; annals of history
   May 12, 2013
2. blinded blunt, bolder, both at once, both to look
   Class 5.
   blind; boths
   April 23, 2013
3. blind borrowings, bold, both alike
   Class 5.
   blind; borrowings; boths
   April 23, 2013
4. to bring in, bring out
   Class 5.
   breath; breathing; brings
   August 28, 2014
5. to derive, descried
   Class 10.
   derivations; descried; sans desire; eksperimen membaca
   December 28, 2012
6. determinations, 3
   Classes 10 and 11.
   indeterminate; determinations; determined; soundings
   December 28, 2012
7. differences, digressions
   Class 11.
   diffuse; digressions; dilatory; dimness of light; gpoy
   June 11, 2015
8. emptied, emptied out, encamped in a fine country
   Classes 13 and 14.
   emptiness; encampment
   April 4, 2015
9. everies. exact.
   Classes 14 and 15.
   evens; everies; experimen membaca; toll
   December 9, 2012
10. find a difficulty
    Class 16.
    fields; difficulties; instances; filtering stones
    May 25, 2014
11. he was, or were, 1
    Class 41
    he was or were's; incompletion; lexicon
    December 6, 2012
12. he was, or were, 2
    Class 41
    lexicon; he was or were's
    December 6, 2012
13. a few words set loose in the heat.
    epigram from Jacques Dupin (1927-2012), Songs of Rescue (Une Apparence de Soupirail) no. 60, Paul Auster, trans., in Jacques Dupin, Selected Poems (1992)
    Class 45
    a few words; heat; words; Jacques Dupin
    July 15, 2013
14. knowing as he did, that
    Class 55
    autisms; knotty points; laconics
    June 14, 2013
15. late. late intelligence. lateness.
    Class 55
    larks; lasts; lates
    January 3, 2014
16. lettuces and greens
    Class 56
    less; more; lettuces and greens
    June 9, 2015
17. many, 1
    Class 58
    many; superfluities,
    May 4, 2013
18. many, 2
    Class 58
    many; maps, reverses; signs
    May 4, 2013
19. many, 3
    Class 58
    many; reductions; representations; sums
    May 4, 2013
20. many, 4
    Class 58
    many; repetitions; stipulations; suppositions
    May 4, 2013
21. many, 5
    Class 58
    many; woulds; tumults
    May 5, 2013
22. missings
    Class 60
    misling rain; missings; mistakes
    June 19, 2013
23. reversals, 1
    Class 61
    reverie; reversals; rhyme or reason; withouts
    May 6, 2013
24. of sounding, of water
    Class 67
    of; soundings
    December 25, 2012
25. only idea / only time
    Class 68
    ideas; only obstacle; open country; temps perdu
    June 8, 2013
26. patterns of
    Class 72
    patches; patchwork; patter; every shilling
    August 11, 2013
27. piece of work about nothing
    I will try to face the danger I see by refraining from spreading my ideas about literary matters, by not talking about, so as to avoid augmenting the chatter with further chatter.
    Ingeborg Bachmann to Paul Celan, Uetikon am See, 5 August 1959, in Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, Correspondence (Seagull Books, 2010)
    Class 73
    Ingeborg Bachmann; about; lexicon; nothing
    November 18, 2012
28. slough sloughs slow, a small island
    but an island, a place for which we have no name.
    ex Georgina Harding. The Solitude of Thomas Cave (2007) : 37
    Class 88
    G. Harding; islands; pretensions; slows, smalls
    February 16, 2014
29. somewhere or other, somehow or other
    Class 90
    somehows; somethings; somewheres
    May 15, 2013
30. talking of tangles
    Class 96
    tales; tangible; tangles
    November 30, 2014
31. that, 1
    Classes 97 and 98
    knowledge; that's
    July 14, 2013
32. that, 2
    Classes 97 and 98
    nonsense; that's
    July 14, 2013
33. Theatrical entertainments, 873
    Class 98
    theatrical entertainments; the's; at sea's
    September 27, 2013
34. the thing that was would, the thing again
    Class XII
    kata benda; lexicon; thickets; things
    November 21, 2012
35. Uncommonly wrong, 416
    Class XVIII
    numbers; un's
    September 27, 2013
36. un's; unmoored
    Class XX
    unmoorings; unmeaning; un's
    April 12, 2014
37. might as well think of
    Class XXXV
    wind's eye; turnings and windings
    April 21, 2013
38. or, in other words. 3
    Class XXXVII
    in other words; words of course; worse; worse o; o worse
    May 29, 2013
39. or, in fewer words
    Class XXXVII
    full of worms; in other words; work; worse
    May 26, 2014
40. in every instance
    Classes XXXVIII-XXXIX
    wrongs; yes; returns
    March 13, 2014
41. wrongs and yarns, a yellow pendant, with hideous yells (an array)
    Classes XXXVIII-XXXIX
    wrongs; yarns
    September 23, 2012
42. yes, no; yet a more
    Class XXXIX
    yes; no; more
    March 12, 2014

    text only, or text and image only (no array erasures)

43. just a signal
    Class 54
    jumbles; justs; signals; words; Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    January 17, 2013
44. relative composition of waters
    Class 55
    deserts; hands; here; lakes; manicules;, there; water
    August 31, 2014
45. to mend the matter
    Class 59
    G. Handel; melancholy; mendings; such mixture was not held a stain; Mark Morris; telegraphic vocabulary
    March 28, 2015
46. a strange) mixture of all sorts
    Class 60
    color; M. E. Chevreul; sorts; strange mixtures
    November 22, 2012
47. Syllables I had never heard
    Her words seemed to be too precise, rather cutting in their unfailing distinctness... Nancy put into many words syllables I had never heard sounded in them before.
    ex Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
    Classes 95 and 96
    almost a song; Willa Cather; syllables; systematicals
    January 3, 2014
48. adrift, very
    Class XVII
    adrifts; mud; muddy; nonsense; very
    October 11, 2013
49. weatherwise weave
    Class XXV
    gpoy; grays; something or other; wear and tear
    December 11, 2014
50. well where
    Class XXV
    asphalt; water; well watered
    October 11, 2013
51. a scene of confusion
    Class XXVI
    M. E. Chevreul; color; scenes of confusion
    November 22, 2012
52. muds
    Class (mixed)
    mud; muds; muddy
    March 23, 2013
53. tar sands
    Class (mixed)
    adrifts; asphalt; notations; sand; temps perdu
    May 16, 2013
54. what plans; where plans; without plans
    Class (mixed)
    plans
    December 7, 2012
55. nothing planned; or plan
    Class (mixed)
    ors, plans, ruination
    December 2, 2012
56. potential difference
    Class (mixed)
    elbows; potential difference; tables
    November 30, 2012
57. it is a
    Class (mixed)
    eksperimen membaca; it is a's; lexicon
    November 21, 2012

 

 
6 August 2015