travellers lexicon

<b>Smile</b>: Why do you smile so big and so often and with so little effect, as if you had not taken pliers to every tooth?\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Shame]] [[→|Snow 1]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Pride</b>: They target the things that make you want to be together. The successfully oppressed person is full of Shame. (cf. <i>[[Shame]]</i>)\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Prestige]] [[→|Romance]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Snow</b>: Yes, it appears here pink, blue, brown, grey, white; here luminous, opaque; here a textural rift between snow-over-rock and snow-over-ice which carries a heavy name; here falling, lying; here covering the known name on a grave; here hollowed out for a husky pup and her meat; here under runners and feet; here on trees; here heaped over that which is not needed and cleared from that which is needed; here figure, ground; here.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Snow 1]] [[→|Solidarity]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>We</b>: When you speak, press CTRL-F and type this word. Now, for each highlighted instance, ask yourself to whom this we refers, and what/who sets its boundary. Then press DEL, and rest your fingers lightly on the keys until your god whispers in your ear.\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Walk]] [[→|Weight]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Imiqqutailaq</b>: cf. <i>[[Pickiterno]]</i>.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Ice]] [[→|Immersion]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Insanity</b>: Rejected defence for intense religious (political) resistance.\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Informant]] [[→|Lake]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Sustainability</b>: Half a mile of neatly stacked logs followed by half a mile of solar panels, some broken, when viewed from a novelty train.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Subdivisional]] [[→|Swearing]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Realness</b>: (1) Do you carry a card? (2) Do you hunt?\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Romance]] [[→|Rights]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

Travellers' Lexicon

Text released by Harry Giles under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).\n\nThis poem was written for the Outriders project, which sent me on a journey from Montréal to Winnipeg to Churchill, travelling with the writer Katherena Vermette. I was primarily researching language and settler-colonisaton, with a particular focus on the role of my home, Orkney, in the colonisation of Manitoba. Thanks to the Edinburgh International Book Festival, who chose me to be one of the five Scottish writers for Outriders. Outriders was supported through the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund. I wrote ongoing reflections, a companion to this poem, at harrygiles.org/categories/outriders.\n\nTaking this journey (which is not over) and writing this work (which is a start) has meant a lot of support and help from many people. Thanks to Cléo Sallis-Parchet and all at the British Council Canada, and to Nick Barley, Jenny Niven, Cat Tyre and Ioannis Kalkounos at EIBF for organising and supporting the project all the way through, plus to Chris DiRaddio, Shelley Pomerance, and Tiphanie Flores at Blue Met / Metropolis Bleu for their hosting. In Montréal, thanks to Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine, Jonathan Lamy, Rachel McCrum and Kai Cheng Thom for brilliant conversations. In Winnipeg, thanks to Reuben Boulette for history, humour and driving. In Churchill, thanks to Karen Blackbourn, Leonard Macpherson, Bill Calman and Mike Spence for education, connections and ideas, plus to all at the Churchill Community Bulletin Board for good discussion. In Edmonton, thanks to Kalea Turner-Beckman and Gavin Renwick for fine hosting and encouragement. Thanks to all who’ve read, commented, shared stories and given me links. Most of all, thanks to Katherena Vermette for agreeing to be part of this project, and for being very generous with conversation and with time.\n\nI take responsibility for these words in this form, but many of these entries draw from words spoken by others to me in conversation or public discussion and should be credited. <i>Aurora, Grain</i> and <i>Weight</i> draw on anecdotes told to me by Bill Calman. <i>Solidarity</i> quotes John Donne. <i>Museum</i> draws heavily on the academic writing of Dr Darcy Leigh. <i>Shame</i> and <i>Guilt</i> draw on Layli Long Soldier in conversation with Krista Tippett. <i>Diversity, Inclusion</i> and <i>Manners</i> draw on a public exchange between myself, Ann-Marie Macdonald and Kai Cheng Thom. <i>Statue</i> references my collaboration with Paolo Perdicini. <i>Ceremony, Informant, Realness</i> and <i>Safe</i> draw on David Treuer in conversation with Duncan McCue. Card, Facebook, Gritty, Ice, Pride and Truth draw on my conversations with Katherena Vermette.\n\nThough I have written from my own experience, this poem and my approach to the journey was informed extensively by the work of indigenous scholars, artists and activists writing and working in decolonisation and associated fields. My primary encounter with this work is through poetry, fiction and memoir. My reading list during this journey offers one small route into this large and vital field:\n\nJosephine Bacon et al, <a href="http://exeko.org/terres-de-trickster" target="_blank">Terres de Trickster</a> (Possibles 2016)\nLeanne Betasamosake Simpson, <a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/this-accident-of-being-lost" target="_blank">This Accident of Being Lost</a> (Anansi 2017)\nMaria Campbell, <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/halfbreed/oclc/623830333" target="_blank">Half-Breed</a> (University of Nebraska 1982)\nMa-Nee Chacaby, <a href="https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/a-two-spirit-journey" target="_blank">A Two-Spirit Journey</a> (University of Manitoba 2016) \nGord Hill, <a href="http://www.arsenalpulp.com/bookinfo.php?index=317" target="_blank">The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book</a> (Arsenal Pulp 2010)\nNatasha Kanapé-Fontaine, <a href="http://mawenzihouse.com/Mawenzi_AssiManifesto.htm" target="_blank">Assi Manifesto</a> (Mawenzi House 2016)\nLayli Long Soldier, <a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/whereas" target="_blank">Whereas</a> (Graywolf 2017)\nHope Nicholson (ed.), <a href="http://ahcomics.com/moonshot-the-indigenous-comics-collection/" target="_blank">Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection</a> (AH! Comics 2015)\nLouis Riel, The Diaries of Louis Riel (Flanagan ed., Edmonton 1976)\nWalter Scott, <a href="http://koyamapress.com/projects/wendys-revenge/" target="_blank">Wendy’s Revenge</a> (Koyama 2016)\nDavid Treuer, <a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/translation-dr-apelles" target="_blank">The Translation of Dr Appelles</a> (Vintage 2008)\nKatherena Vermette, <a href="http://www.katherenavermette.com/" target="_blank">The Break</a> (Anansi 2016)\nKatherena Vermette, <a href="http://www.katherenavermette.com/" target="_blank">North End Love Songs</a> (Muses’ Company 2012)\n\n\nThis poem is published in 2017, and so I also recommend reading and supporting the work of <a href="https://twitter.com/Resistance150" target="_blank">#Resistance150</a>, a diverse and disruptive project resisting ongoing colonisation.\n\n<div align="center">[[Title|Start]] : [[Index]] : Acknowledgements</div>

<b>Nanuq</b>: You can’t help half-believing you’ll still see one, but all you get are sparrows.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Name]] [[→|Networking]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Solidarity</b>: Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing of misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Snow 2]] [[→|Speak]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Bannock</b>: Unleavened bread whose familiar sounds rest wholly different on your tongue.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Aurora]] [[→|Belief]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Truth</b>: Everything that is. What is real is true, what is is true.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Treeline]] [[→|Walk]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

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<b>Shame</b>: May with grace and care give way to Freedom From Denial.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Sext]] [[→|Smile]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

[[Adventure]]\n[[Airport]]\n[[Aurora]]\n[[Bannock]]\n[[Belief]]\n[[Bush]]\n[[Camera]]\n[[Card]]\n[[Ceremony]]\n[[Clear]]\n\n[[Commonwealth]]\n[[Constitution]]\n[[Cousin]]\n[[Crow]]\n[[Design]]\n[[Discover]]\n[[Diversity]]\n[[Empathy]]\n[[Endless]]\n[[Exhaust]]\n\n[[Explore]]\n[[Facebook]]\n[[Farm]]\n[[Festival]]\n[[First]]\n[[Freight]]\n[[Golf]]\n[[Grain]]\n[[Gritty]]\n[[Guilt]]\n\n[[Hello]]\n[[Hot]]\n[[Home]]\n[[Homecoming]]\n[[Hydro]]\n[[Ice]]\n[[Imiqqutailaq]]\n[[Immersion]]\n[[Inclusion]]\n[[Informant]]\n\n[[Insanity]]\n[[Lake]]\n[[Land]]\n[[Language]]\n[[Linguaphagy]]\n[[Manners]]\n[[Map]]\n[[Marriage]]\n[[Mirror]]\n[[Museum]]\n\n[[Name]]\n[[Nanuq]]\n[[Networking]]\n[[Open]]\n[[Orange]]\n[[Philanthropy]]\n[[Pickiterno]]\n[[Politeness]]\n[[Prestige]]\n[[Pride]]\n\n[[Romance]]\n[[Realness]]\n[[Rights]]\n[[Safe]]\n[[Settler]]\n[[Sext]]\n[[Shame]]\n[[Smile]]\n[[Snow|Snow 1]]\n[[Snow|Snow 2]]\n\n[[Solidarity]]\n[[Speak]]\n[[Speiran]]\n[[Square]]\n[[Statue]]\n[[Subdivisional]]\n[[Sustainability]]\n[[Swearing]]\n[[Terra Nullius]]\n[[Tourism]]\n\n[[Train]]\n[[Translate]]\n[[Travel]]\n[[Treeline]]\n[[Truth]]\n[[Walk]]\n[[We]]\n[[Weight]]\n[[What About]]\n[[WiFi]]\n\n<div align="center">[[Title|Start]] : Index : [[Acknowledgements]]</div>

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<b>Subdivisional</b>: Keep your eyes out for the black and white signs with numbers that you can count; if you miss them check the signals; when we’ve gone for as long as we can we reset to zero.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Statue]] [[→|Sustainability]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Festival</b>: Cultural form which celebrates certain spheres of migrant labour for the purpose of obscuring others.\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Farm]] [[→|First]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Museum</b>: History is written by the— No, look, it’s more complicated than that. Most of the people I know who work in museums are of the sort we might call “progressive” or “liberal”; that is, they want to move the world forward through an understanding of the past. And so while we can see museums as a primary site of colonial history-making, there is now significant movement for critical curation, seeking to bring different stories into the display. (cf. <i>[[Diversity]]</i>) This process, however, interfaces with nation, state, church, academy, &c., depending on sources of funding and training, and so the interpretative panel becomes a site of contest; and most frequently in a “progressive” or “liberal” state the fact of the interpetative panel’s apparent or declared liberality is itself what gives the authorisation to the state to continue colonisation. That is, we’re nice now, let’s keep going. And so any given self-critical cultural text within a liberal sphere, including one such as this which has as its voltage a hard-left critique of liberality, is itself such a justification, and also an attempt to take dominant ownership of any alternative (cf. <i>[[Linguaphagy]]</i>), and the more critical it becomes the more justified is the state. To acknowledge this is happening, right now, in the moment of writing, of reading, is not to escape. There is no escape. Except to say that there is no escape is itself to reinscribe such a logic: to say there is no outside (cf. <i>[[Bush]]</i>) is to show you are incapable of stepping through the door. To say there is no door. To organise around the logic of doors. Can an interpretative panel throw the sink through the wall? History is written.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Mirror]] [[→|Name]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Romance</b>: Tell me about the lights! The birds! The distance! You know these demands. This is never the story you want to tell. You want to tell how it costs too much to remove a dead machine and so it goes to maggots next to the bruck of several wars. You want to tell how the small interiors of postwar prefabrication are more familiar than stone. You are angry that you cannot talk about the lights because all they see of you is light, and you know the light matters. And now you are here and you want to tell <i>[[Aurora]], [[Imiqqutailaq]], [[Snow|Snow 1]]</i>.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Pride]] [[→|Realness]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Philanthropy</b>: A means of advancing (your interests in) society by paying for/off resistance.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Orange]] [[→|Pickiterno]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Camera</b>: Your self seen as if by another, which is no longer the only way you see it. (cf. <i>[[Mirror]]</i>)\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Bush]] [[→|Card]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Orange</b>: Once, the well-meaning American partner of a well-meaning American cousin asked why you were not wearing orange, because surely Scots were supposed to wear orange on St Patrick’s Day. Your jaw sunk slowly and the sounds that emerged were guttural; not knowing what was wrong, he explained that this was what his history teacher had told him, and thus before you could speak you had to wrestle with the newly clear understanding of what is meant by the word “history” and the practice “history” and that it was not what you had first thought. As you pass through museums and history books in this new place you encounter the shade, the word and the symbol again, each time twisting into new forms; as you sit in your brown leather seat in a plexiglass dome waiting for the sun to sink you are waiting for the new meanings’ wavelength to scatter.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Open]] [[→|Philanthropy]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Exhaust</b>: To have nothing left, and to be so full that nothing can enter, and the shallow breath you give off in this state.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Endless]] [[→|Explore]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Translate</b>: To remove from one place to another.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Train]] [[→|Travel]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

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<b>Safe</b>: That which is safe is commodifiable; that which is commodifiable is safe. (cf. <i>[[Food|Random]], [[Folklore|Random]], [[Fashion|Random]]</i>)\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Rights]] [[→|Settler]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Explore</b>: To scout the hunting area for game by means of loud cries, and/or to make to flow outwards. (cf. <i>[[Adventure]]</i>)\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Exhaust]] [[→|Facebook]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Facebook</b>: Where everything happens.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Explore]] [[→|Farm]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Hydro</b>: Means of diverting the flows of water and power.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Homecoming]] [[→|Ice]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Clear</b>: To remove complications.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Ceremony]] [[→|Commonwealth]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Rights</b>: An illusion cast to preserve maldistribution.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Realness]] [[→|Safe]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Marriage</b>: A contractual relation, said contract being emotional, legal, financial, sociopolitical or some combination of the four described by a time-space waveform such that when it is viewed in one temporal locale from another it appears indeterminate, or maldetermined, such that the accuracy of measurement tends towards zero for such qualities as “love”, “ownership”, “family”, “business” and “rape”.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Map]] [[→|Mirror]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Hello</b>: A performative utterance, conveying, depending on the melody: (1) I only speak English; (2) I am asking whether you speak English; (3) I am requiring that you speak English; (4) I have chosen not to learn how to greet you in the language of this polity.\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Guilt]] [[→|Hot]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>First</b>: When you say it, it never is.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Festival]] [[→|Freight]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Commonwealth</b>: (1) Belonging to everyone. (2) Retaining empire.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Clear]] [[→|Constitution]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Square</b>: A more efficient style of surveillance, as it requires minimal manipulation of the chains; additionally, it allows at a maximum four neighbours, and careful rotational plotting enables the elimination of neighbours entirely.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Speiran]] [[→|Statue]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Weight</b>: They carried so many gifted carvings it brought the plane down. They knew they shouldn’t have done it but they did it anyway.\n\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|We]] [[→|What About]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Inclusion</b>: (1) You take that land you’ve won, you dig in, you build your bulwark there, and then you start to expand your territory. (2) And if that’s not working, you take out a grenade and put it on that land and blow it up.\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Immersion]] [[→|Informant]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Gritty</b>: What you become when you write about a street.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Grain]] [[→|Guilt]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Immersion</b>: A means of learning a language, of drowning.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Imiqqutailaq]] [[→|Inclusion]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Design</b>: (1) To remember. (2) To forget.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Crow]] [[→|Discover]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Freight</b>: Everyone is behind us pushing us forward.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|First]] [[→|Golf]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Mirror</b>: our self seen in reverse, which is no longer the only way you see it. (cf. <i>[[Camera]]</i>)\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Marriage]] [[→|Museum]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Home</b>: Where you claim from, where all seek to claim, where claims.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Hot]] [[→|Homecoming]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Treeline</b>: Here, you can see it. This is the point where trees give up and say, “This is not for me.” The oldest trees are tiny and thin, their hard-won rings packed so tight you’d need a microscope. Tracks cross your tracks. You grew up without trees, but the line was never so clear before. You weave across the barrier at the speed of thirty-two trained feet.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Travel]] [[→|Truth]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Speak</b>: cf. <i>[[Listen|Random]]</i>.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Solidarity]] [[→|Speiran]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Ceremony</b>: That's not for you.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Card]] [[→|Clear]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Constitution</b>: Your limits. (Roll two dice.)\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Commonwealth]] [[→|Cousin]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Snow</b>: You have not known snow.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Smile]] [[→|Snow 2]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Travel</b>: A means of generating content.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Translate]] [[→|Treeline]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<html><font size=6><b>Travellers' Lexicon</b></font size=6></html>\n\n<html><font size=4><b>by Harry Giles</b></font size=4></html>\n\n<div align="center">[[Begin|Adventure]] : [[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</div>

<b>Networking</b>: To ask questions until you know how someone is useful to you. (cf. <i>[[Speiran]]</i>)\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Nanuq]] [[→|Open]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Diversity</b>: (1) Everyone loves me now but they still want to kill me. (2) Everyone loves me now but I still hate myself.\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Discover]] [[→|Empathy]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Belief</b>: Always respect the gods of the temple, and don’t mess with magic you don’t understand.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Bannock]] [[→|Bush]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Farm</b>: To clear enough space to gather enough light. (cf. <i>[[Clear]]</i>)\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Facebook]] [[→|Festival]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Train</b>: Screwdriver, snake, scalpel, &c.: steel opens everything.\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Terra Nullius]] [[→|Translate]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Sext</b>: Reaching out to what seems more straightforward by dint of never having pretended to be straightforward.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Settler]] [[→|Shame]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Statue</b>: My friend Paolo taught me a game, “Woman or Concept”, which you can play in any city in order to explore (cf. <i>[[Explore]]</i>>) its political relation to history and present. To play the game, whenever you first see a feminine statue, you must guess whether it represents an actual named woman or an abstract noun (such as “Liberty” or “Britain”). Keep score. This game is also played with race.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Square]] [[→|Subdivisional]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Prestige</b>: These seats are reserved and someone has removed the stickers.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Politeness]] [[→|Pride]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Card</b>: Marker of rights including but not limited to admittance, cash and speech; on occasion, literally carried in folded leather next to your literal heart.\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Camera]] [[→|Ceremony]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Endless</b>: Here you begin to understand how the vastness appeared to someone from an island like yours, five miles by three and each fractal edge of shore with its own name, the few low trees personally known, and you find yourself using untrue words like “endless” and “boundless”, the way your Google Calendar appears to have infinite space for activity where a paper diary would expose your overcommitment in the cramp of its lines; that is, you see in this space that within you which desires expansion, which reads stories on a galactic scale and has always preferred the story of an infinite universe to that of an expanding sphere, and just as everything is determined by what it excludes, you see also the terror and blood of your desire to keep expanding beyond your own skin, while a raven flies over the carriage and the leaning trees continue.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Empathy]] [[→|Exhaust]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Land</b>: (1) Not merely the surface on which you walk but rather a legally-described frustrum of rights to defence, extraction, travel, support, &c., extending so-and-so feet towards the centre of the earth and outwards from that centre into the atmosphere. Actually, I’m not sure if “up” and “down” are described in relation to the oblate spheroid of Earth or as if said planet were flat; the latter would necessitate yet more conflict, as frustra (frustrums?) would overlap beneath and crack apart above, whereas the former would involve tapering equations from an infinitely narrow point to expansion, expansion, expansion. Then again, whomsoever has rights enough to find out would themselves become the guarantor of such rights, which is to say, they wouldn’t have to care. \n(2) Where you are free, given respect.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Lake]] [[→|Language]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Language</b>: (1) Words which are outside. \n(cf. <i>[[Bush]], [[Swearing]]</i>) (2) Synonym for land. (3) Precognition. (4) The first technology of the imperial nation-state. (5) Synonym for land.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Land]] [[→|Linguaphagy]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Guilt</b>: Less useful still than his sister Shame. (cf. <i>[[Shame]]</i>)\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Gritty]] [[→|Hello]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Cousin</b>: The word unwinds from your fingers onto the keys as if it can carry across ocean, history or pressure differential a thread of meaning.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Constitution]] [[→|Crow]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Linguaphagy</b>: You eat what you are.\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Language]] [[→|Manners]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Homecoming</b>: Advertising campaign as philosopher’s stone: transforms settler to tourist.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Home]] [[→|Hydro]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Swearing</b>: Low status language savaging high status language.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Sustainability]] [[→|Terra Nullius]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Golf</b>: <i>(n)</i> The erasure of land. <i>(v)</i> To declare the erasure of land.\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Freight]] [[→|Grain]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Tourism</b>: An extractive industry.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Terra Nullius]] [[→|Train]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Hot</b>: CAUTION, may refer to radically different temperatures in different geographies, may cause ice- or sunburn as it coughs from the tap.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Hello]] [[→|Home]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Walk</b>: I never saw a hill I didn’t want to walk up.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Truth]] [[→|We]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Informant</b>: One who gives information to one who does not deserve it.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Inclusion]] [[→|Insanity]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Open</b>: You want your work to be “accessible”. To whom? Which doors are you closing and which are you opening, and which handles do you have the right to touch? Are you aware of the decisions you’re making with each key stroke? Not everyone can come in, or should: to say you have opened all doors is to hide which doors you have already closed. \n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Networking]] [[→|Orange]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Lake</b>: Large\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Insanity]] [[→|Land]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Ice</b>: The clearer the ice, the harder the walking.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Hydro]] [[→|Imiqqutailaq]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Discover</b>: To cover.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Design]] [[→|Diversity]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Politeness</b>: As of hierarchy.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Pickiterno]] [[→|Prestige]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Bush</b>: Small forest, low forest, or forest informally; rainforest or desert; country, the country, the country that it is; what is not the city; what is outside (of).\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Belief]] [[→|Camera]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Terra Nullius</b>: To make empty that which is full.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Swearing]] [[→|Tourism]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Map</b>: (1) <i>(n)</i> Land as videogame. <i>(v)</i> To play. (2) Listen, can you draw how the land appears from the land; can you draw what means, and what new lines will you need?\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Manners]] [[→|Marriage]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>WiFi</b>: A tether\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|What About]] [[Title|Start]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Adventure</b>: Journey in which there is an expectation of high return on investment in exchange for high risk of horror.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Start]] [[→|Airport]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>

<b>Pickiterno</b>: cf. <i>[[Imiqqutailaq]]</i>.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Philanthropy]] [[→|Politeness]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Empathy</b>: To hold your hand against a lung fire and then to describe with care your particular blisters, aware that these blisters are not the only blisters, and indeed to press, with tenderness, these blisters against another’s, and to hold that pain.\n\n\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Diversity]] [[→|Endless]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Name</b>: You know these names. One tortured you when you were a child; one held you; one did both. You read them again on street signs, schools, graves. Here the parishes are so much larger. Whose names are these?\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Museum]] [[→|Nanuq]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Settler</b>: (1) One forced from home. (2) One who forces from home. (N.B. These senses are not mutually exclusive.)\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Safe]] [[→|Sext]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>What About</b>: The homunculus in your skull who says, when confronted with pain from which you have profited, “But I’m good”, and “I’m hurting”.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Weight]] [[→|WiFi]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Airport</b>: Specific form of sovereignty over time and space. Airport light is the light you are given on a wet dawn; airport air is the air that comes packaged in gentle pellets protecting your new. \n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Adventure]] [[→|Aurora]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>

<b>Grain</b>: We hold one hundred and forty thousand tonnes in the complex and can load one thousand tonnes an hour; our gantry leans to the right with courage over the ice.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Golf]] [[→|Gritty]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

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<b>Speiran</b>: To ask questions until you know how someone is related to you. (cf. <i>[[Networking]]</i>)\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Speak]] [[→|Square]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Manners</b>: A currency that buys time to work out if you’re among friends or enemies.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Linguaphagy]] [[→|Map]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n

<b>Aurora</b>: Maybe, if we launch enough rockets on enough columns of fire with enough fine instruments between them, we could learn how to turn these lights off and on, or maybe if you tap your teeth.\n\n\n\n<div align="center">[[←|Airport]] [[→|Bannock]]\n<font size=4>[[Index]] : [[Acknowledgements]]</font></div>\n