Solstice of eternal millipedes

Visit https://almostmeaningful.com/solstice-of-eternal-millipedes | Reading Ulysses in Montana #229 | Oil painting in the style of Edward Hopper of a millipede and a centipede dancing the tango in an orange arena of earthy delights, fizzled with a screwdriver and an anvil, and geraniums all around.

Reading Ulysses in Montana #229

Ginger calculated the divisible eons of geological time to within a fraction of a millimeter using the millipede as the standard unit of time and the river running through it.

George confronted the centipede of elaborate requisitions and the myriad parentheses of cylindrical meditations (and Samuel Johnson’s toupee), which promised infinite infinitudes in the volume of irreparable constellations of mirrors and molecules gathered in the allotted brevity of moribund equinoxes. Typographical figures and hieroglyphic rudiments were a little too sentimental for Ginger’s taste, but she inferred the vulgar air of ratification and enunciated the proclamation of disputed and diminutive treaties on treats and threats of impeding gloom.

George gave Ginger room to glow, but he bestowed teasing images of mutinous months across the eons of geological time, with chance happening to us all.


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6 thoughts on “Solstice of eternal millipedes

  1. Timothy B Horne April 3, 2026 / 5:23 am

    We all need to give others around us “room to glow”.

  2. Citizen Jane April 3, 2026 / 6:39 am

    It feels like an eternal millipede since I last read one of these! Worth waiting multiple millis more when it’s this much fun! 🙃

  3. ali redford April 3, 2026 / 1:12 pm

    Soo good to see your writing againe-this is brilliant; thank you!

  4. Sunayana April 4, 2026 / 2:03 am

    It’s absolutely brilliant. Read it and re read it.
    It’s so esoteric and engaging. Must read your other posts too😊

  5. Writer'sremedy1 April 5, 2026 / 11:01 pm

    Woww

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