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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Graffiti-free LA River / Mary Ruefle's erasure poetry

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limn \ˈlim\

transitive verb: To draw or paint on a surface; to outline in clear sharp detail, delineate; describe

Etymology: 1400–50; late ME lymne, var. of ME luminen to illuminate (manuscripts), L inlūmināre to embellish, lit., light up

limen \ˈlī-mən\

noun: The threshold of a physiological or psychological response. A sensory threshold.

Etymology: Latin limin-, limen transverse beam in a door frame, threshold, Date: 1895

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"Southern California constitutes a single metroploian district which should be characterized as rurban: neither city nor country but everywhere a mixture of both. Just as Southern California is the least rural of all regions in America, so, paradoxically, Los Angeles is the least citified of all the cities of America.

Excerpt from Southern California: An Island on the Land, by Carey McWilliams.

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