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Sunday 18 September 2016

crept over by shining white flies (from a private diary)

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BROMO-SELTZER LIFE 09/30/1940 p. 12
BROMO-SELTZER LIFE 09/30/1940 p. 12

A GREAT MEMORIAL NEARS COMPLETION: Life, 09/30/1940 (image via Gallery of Graphic Design)

Thurs. a.m. Headache mental insensibility heaviness oppressed. That acid feeling.


SHELL X-100 MOTOR OIL LIFE 04/30/1951 p. 102
 
Your engine makes this much acid every day: Boris Artzybashef, Life, 04/30/1951 (image via Gallery of Graphic Design)

Tues. extremely late. Few improvements no advancements. Citizen of no nation. Stupefaction, shortness of breath & c.


JESTS ANTACID LIFE 09/30/1940
 
Now -- All America can have JESTS: Life, 09/30/1940 (image via Gallery of Graphic Design)

Sat. night, call it morning. Done nothing need of doing pressing time of doing short.

Mon. Sounds, late. Little mice if I am not wrong. Or something. (Cats hear this.)


YALE DOOR LOCKS TIME 08/17/1953 p. 85

Do you ever awaken like this at night?: Time, 08/17/1953 (image via Gallery of Graphic Design)

Sun. Day of darkening drips then night. Indolence indifference. Mind encumbered. No plan pursued or formed. Want of rest. Nor ad nor product.
 

AVIONICS COMPONENTS LIFE 12/20/1943 p. 16
 
Appointment in Electronia...: Life, 12/20/1943 (image via Gallery of Graphic Design)
 
Tues. Survey past life many faults many deficiencies much to be repented very little reformed. Time not expected to be long. Dark stain shadowed ceiling.


Wed. Misspent time infirmity of body perturbation of mind. As ever, tea. When p and ~p have a common boundary.


BURROUGHS B 200 COMPUTER NEWSWEEK 10/12/1964

angry young computer: Newsweek, 10/12/1964

Sat. Seventy-somethingth year. Mandrill. What can be done ought not to be delayed. Delayed reaction. Left the p out of swimming. It is NOT ENOUGH to point to ~p's lying outside p. Relentless peaks & valleys & c. Whereas p and ~p have a common boundary. Already presupposing the existence of a whole world of propositions.


AUTOMOBILE TIRES TIME 08/17/1953 p. 36

His wife is right... the blowout wrecked the party!: Time, 08/17/1953 (image via Gallery of Graphic Design)

Thurs. Again. As before.

Sat. after long unquiet and perplexing thoughts. Thoughts not my thoughts ways not my ways much to be done little to be known. Unprofitable and dangerous enquiries. Curious doubts impossible to be solved.


BORG-WARNER LIFE 06/24/1957 p. 76

ELECTRONIC "FINGERS" to speed up today's automation!: Life, 06/24/1957 (image via Gallery of Graphic Design)
Mon. too late.

Obverse fog Tues. early. Stood silent on the iron trellised balcony crept over by shining white flies.


NCR COMPUTERS TIME 02/23/1962 p. 99

Why we chose the NCR computer: Time, 2/23/1962 (image via Gallery of Graphic Design)