among the way-too-many things that i've scanned lately is this map, drawn by my g-grandfather in 1936 and said to be the first map of clayton county to show land lots, roads, creeks and rivers, and local landmarks on the same map---he was nearly 80 when he did it, but he kept on drawing and writing for another decade or more---the original is in the georgia archives
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9/14/2009 08:22:00 PM
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
john northbrooke, c. 1570
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