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There are no nouns in Tlön's conjectural Ursprache, from which the "present" languages and the dialects are derived: there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic suffixes (or prefixes) with an adverbial value. For example: there is no word corresponding to the word "moon", but there is a verb which in English would be "to moon" or "to moonate". "The moon rose above the river" is hlor u fang axaxaxas mlo, or literally: "upward behind the onstreaming it mooned."
- Jorge Luis Borges, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
There are some other things, but we can wait till later for those. Now open for business, conversations, friendships, etc.
Completed Tasks
- Journey to the End of the Night: San Francisco Halloween 2011
- Player Photograph
- Add a colorful light bulb to an empty public socket
We set out from Cliff's apartment saying: "We are going to add a colorful lightbulb to a public socket!"
Step 1: Get the bulb.
This took us to Ace Hardware, where we deliberated on which color bulb to get. After some deliberation, we settled on pink, as we felt it would be the most festive (although there was also a green CFL that was pretty appealing).
Step 2: Find the socket.
Around this time we realized it might have been nice to have premeditated this praxis a little more thoroughly. Turns out that there aren't a whole lot of empty sockets around. But we had a solution (light bulb) in search of a problem (empty socket), and by gum, we were going to solve something that day!
After a bit of roving, we stumbled upon the Safeway pictured above. The rest, as they say, is history.