Still: Boxing

the thrust of: wrapping, jabbing, embracing, imprisoning; captivating attention, framing the object, containing the carnage, finding a form 

Story: “There once was a man who lived in a shoe. He tried to get out as his size increased. The shoe remained, a country. His country betrayed him. His size did not.”

Definition: the historical enclosure of common land; enclosed orders in monasteries; limiting, as in architecture and spatial design; an enclosure, as in engineering, is a kind 

of secure housing; is an area of land separated from surrounding earthworks;  is an attachment to a letter, legal or electronic; the box the sound is coming from

Imperative: to obtain the largest assets; to contain the most savage savage; to cast the mind’s good provenance; to hold the keys to the kingdom

History: “There were two main processes of enclosure in England. One was the division 

of large open, agriculturally productive fields, into privately controlled “hedged” plots. 

The commons ceased to be common. The second was the division of (the private claiming of) common fends, marshes, moors and other ‘wastes,’ so as to make the public private.”

Peasant in History: “We have no wood for fire, no grasses nor water for our animals. I’ve tilled this plot for 10,000 years, and am now only ripe for the City. I begin again my wandering, my starvation and suppression. I am a scavenging man and am illegal, now alone.”

Antipode: it is a sacred place, a Sanctum Sanctorum of the right to exist (by asylum, by election, by consecration, by simple birth). For all to enter the Kingdom of Heaven we must recognize we’re already there

Libra: globe, altar, field, book, teacher, glove, influence

Report: “After years of vitriolic rhetoric on the part of United States leaders, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has decided on a policy of containment.” 

Implements: helicopters, pipelines, tasers, oil booms, lobbyists, trainers, priests, ideology, populism, film, medication, excommunication

Xbox: World Series of Poker, Test Drive Unlimited, Major Nelson in Tokyo

Random Sampling: Sumerian Cyclical; Crusades (I, II & III); Defenestration of Prague; Fens Act; Boxer Rebellion; Kennan Doctrine; Gulf War (I & II)

Intentional Act: “I put Achilles here …”

Outcome: Bare-knuckle fighting ceased popularity with the rapid injury of its players. Many died punch drunk, many died poor, all were variously exploited

Matchup: Ali vs. Fraiser, “Thrilla in Manilla”; Hezbollah vs. Israel, “The Bombing 

of Beirut”; Foley vs. Page, “The Predator of Palm Beach”; Bushie and a Shoe, “Last Days 

in Iraq, Plumly vs. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, “Argument and Song”

Epic Channel: “Long labors both, by sea and reader, to bear these arms, this village explainer, from whence the race of Alban fathers, did send their sons to embellish Hummers, he banished gods to simplify sin, and made a kingdom of bombing runs,  

‘I sing and sing of Latian towns,’ succession, then, majestic Rome”

Subjunctive: If Duchamp is out, then the cabinet is empty; if Blasco is in then the city is weeping; if agency’s mine then everything’s game