
Some years ago, on New Years Day, I found the following text and made a book to house it in; a book for T... I can't remember how it came to be, except that I glanced through one Herr Swiezynski's Oxford English Dictionary and, through some sort of made up game with a set of hazy rules, I opened to and transcribed the series of chanced upon words below...
Fin-like,
.....an aspen,
..........of distillation,
the turning to distill,
.....still the distant transition,
..........to form,
volte-face,
..........twilight of the twentieth,
....................among the old,
a fork,
.....to branch,
..........a divergence,
...............this way,
....................sweet demarcation, demarche,
.........................a destiny,
reflection...
..........to obtain a clearer view,
...............a relation to the things of yesterday
...............perils that we shall not
again encounter,
a mirror,
.....to time,
.....to see, layer upon layer,
....................beneath which, a palimpsest,
..........beyond which, a movement
....................to move beyond,
....................to crez...create anew,
.........................invoking the old,
a turning point, to spin a tendril,
.....pass over,
..........step over,
...............carefully...
........................................a prospect,
.....usually forbidding,
......................................an expectation,
..........usually forbidden,
the prospect of a premonition,
..........clairvoyant,
...............clarity,
.......core,
.....to collect,
..........make a collection of the days,
to correspond with a century,
..........dove,
...............starling,
....................tails and tales, entails,
.....the seeking out,
...............of,
..........the correspondence between old and new,
...................................clair-obscure...
chiaroschuro,
.....as mingled clearness and obscurity,
..........a moment when the old borders the new,
...............brushes,
....................becomes,
........................................silence,
to know when something has stilled,
.....a lucid stilling,
.....the rift within a veil
..........the order in which to begin,
...................................an aurora, to enter,
........................................upon,
...................................................to hatch
...the beginning