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September 6, 2019
Happy Belaying, Fellow Rock Hounds,

Breaking News from our Hmm Let’s Think It Over Tour of America, Version II.IV. [Enjoy the roamin’ numerals, folks!]

This just in: Geology Absorbs Adjectives. This is not just another feathery, gossamer metaphor. This is the rock-hard truth, and we offer rock-hard proof from the Great Western Adjective Deserts. By Day II of Part II of the HLTIOTOA, Version II.IV (see above), we had plumb exhausted our canyon-deep supply of adjectives. And superlatives.
Amazing
Amazing
(We really did run out of adjectives.)
Amazing
(and Superlatives)
Reader Reply I of the Week + Fictionary Friday: Words You Need. Whether you know it or not. This week, a contribution from Steve Palik from our beloved West Grace Street. If he had only given us an adjective . . .

Carbonundrum (carr bonn nunn drum) Noun. Recently discovered element and the hardest of all enigmas; found not on the Mohs Scale but only [1.] way out there in unreachable geologic crucibles, or [2.] in the castoff scree slopes of deductive reasoning.

In a sentence:  The president doubled down on buying Greenland where a lode of carbonundrum can be mined to buttress fake news.
Carbonundrum Tailings Pile
(Note the Fake News potential.)
Stunning.
(We found one more.)
Wikipedia Friday Favorite:
In honor of the intersection of curiosity and logarithmically expanding human knowledge, we offer a weekly favorite obscure Wikipedia page. This week, brought to you by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
Reader Reply II of the Week: And in yet another case of Life Imitates Flossophy, thanks to Graham Brookie from Washington, DC, epicenter of all Conspiracy Theories. Who knew? Our clandestine, investigative plunge into the Extraterrestrial Highway was preempted by a FaceBook Event scheduled for September 20, 2019. Apparently they're expecting quite a crowd to storm Area 51. Who knew ? ? ? ?
Can't wait to visit the Gift Shop and Museum!
Reader Reply III of the Week: Relating to Flossophy XXXII, thanks to Burnley Bainbridge of beautiful Outer Ivy, Virginia, and world renowned paddleboard polo player:  "As a devoted paddle board polo devotee [sic] I am offended by your latest rumination which obviously misses the whole point of the game." (OK, fine, but still, as of press time, nothing happened.)

Fizzdom Friday: from our collection of favorite quotes:
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph."
– Ken Kesey

Write if you (do) or (do not) aspire to conspire.

Yours in igneous metamorphic Delphic pinnacles of vertigo,
Jonathan
www.jonathanmarcus.org

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