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October 32, 2019
Happy Lunarity, Fellow Moonbeams,

“Next month” always sounds so far away, some slice of a future lifetime. Yet some months are subsumed by the following month . . . 

. . . MaybecomesJune, as if it were all one word, one month, one time, suffused with the warmth, the glow, the flowers, the promise of endless summer.

And sometimes the looming notion of “next month” echoes as if from a haunted house, and everyone knows it’s not safe to go in there, so our Chronology Department has cleverly devised Denial Days™, whereby you can eat up some of next month by squeezing extra duration from the month you’re in, and enjoy the 32nd, 33rd, and 34th days for all they’re worth.
Denial Days™ in All Their Glory
(Anyway, look, months were just made up by some power-drunk dictators in ancient Rome, so what’s the big whup-tee-doo with modulating the utterly arbitrary?)

Denial Days™. You’re gonna love ‘em. Interestingly, staff has found that Denial Days™ often heighten one’s propensity to free associate, as in, “Look, Doris, that toaster reminds me of the Azores in August!” Which brings us to the .  .  .

Free Association Reader Reply of the Week:
Thanks, Tom Kelley, of Morro Bay, California. (Perhaps you derived free association benefits from Denial Days™ back when we denied them.)

“. . . the ‘Somewhere Out There’ [in last week’s Flossophy] jogged my memory to one of my favorite poems by H.H. Knibbs. Ever run across it? Here 'tis....”

Well, it turns out that neither staff nor management was familiar with cowboy poet Henry Herbert Knibbs, and to add to our appreciation, he does not have a Wikipedia page! But H.H. does have a way with words and the landscape, and, we suspect, a certain liberty with the passage of the months.
And then, as if the sheer quirky nature of the poem were not enough, further research from staff uncovered the astonishing fact that Edgar Rice Burroughs based his character, Bridge, in The Mucker series, on his contemporary literary crushes, H. H. Knibbs, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Service and Jack London! Leading us to . . .
Wikipedia Friday Favorite:
In honor of the intersection of curiosity and logarithmically expanding human knowledge, we offer a weekly favorite obscure Wikipedia page. Whew! The entertaining rabbit hole of Free Association.

Fictionary Friday: Words You Need. Whether you know it or not.
Roarshock (rohr shahk) Noun: Free-association induced by high volume screaming.
In a sentence: Wannabe cowboy poet Dee Nyall lost her way at the poetry rodeo, and deployed an extended roarshock while struggling to rhyme with orange.

Fizzdom Friday: from our collection of favorite quotes.
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute.
We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race."
– Walt Whitman

Friday Fluff:
One of the things about November is the calendar problem. If you’re a good person who’s in denial about digital "reality", you have a paper calendar, and, well, it might be running out of pages.

Write if you (do) or (do not) plan to dive down a rabbit hole this week. (Guess what? You already did.)

Yours in free range associations,
Jonathan
www.jonathanmarcus.org

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