Pinkhead Smartweed
This being the name of some grass in a relatively recently installed garden at UCI.
Not its given name, mind you. One couldn't address the grass with it. It is rather the name of the sort of grass.
Which isn't to say that one could address that.
Though it does sound like the sort of name that one could use to address someone.
Belonging, no doubt, to someone whom one would not wish to address.
One would probably not wish to address the grass, either, but for different reasons.
There are figures in the garden, which is in three parts, each part having a figure in the center which is surrounded by a decoration thought to match the figure conceptually.
By "figures" I mean statues of poets, mostly. Not, for instance, squares or architectural diagrams.
One's language being frequently imprecise in such ways, I have discovered.
One might want to address the figures, which have names, though a response would be long in coming.
Comments
on 2008-01-02 0:30:28.0, ogged commented:
So what did you think of your plane reading?
and, further, on 2008-01-02 14:01:11.0, ben wolfson commented:
The Education of Arnold Hitler, which I finished on the plane having begun it fully one year ago, and then read about two-thirds of again, having already finished Reader's Block and This is Not a Novel and having mistakenly put my Kafka (mine is actually a much older, more decrepit edition, which actually belongs to my mother) in the bag which was in the overhead compartment, is not good, not even a little, really. The Markson books I liked a good deal, though I noticed in Reader's Block that he's much freer about alluding to various structural niceties that are (alas!) hidden to me, or, when he states them outright, whose meaning is hidden to me. (As for example when he states that the number of unattributed quotations in the book is 333; one feels there must be especial significance to this figure since he'd rather a substantial bit earlier related that Kazantzakis' The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel had 333,333 lines.)
I didn't bring Wittgenstein's Mistress on the plane, though; I only started that after returning.
and, further, on 2008-01-02 17:12:56.0, abc commented:
the grass looked like edelweiss turns out the same family speaking of addresses, one should not address to whom one would not wish to address that's like a moral imperative
and, further, on 2008-01-04 6:48:44.0, My Alter Ego commented:
Pinkhead Smartweed would make a good name for a bluesman.
and, further, on 2008-01-06 0:41:23.0, Standpipe Bridgeplate commented:
I'm sure Pinkhead Smartweed wouldn't care to address you, either.