Bobby. wrote on Mar 17^th, 2024 at 12:59pm:

Percival Bartlebooth.
When he is twenty, Bartlebooth resolves to begin a project in which he “starts from nothing, passes through precise operations […] and ends up with nothing.” Bartlebooth’s plan possesses three phases:

1) He would first learn how to paint watercolors for ten years.

2) In the next twenty years, he would travel the world painting seascapes of “identical format.” Subsequent to completing each seascape, he would send the painting to the craftsman Gaspard Winkler, who would create a jigsaw puzzle from it.

3) The final phase of Bartlebooth’s project would involve his assembly of each puzzle. As he would complete a puzzle, the seascape it depicted would be “retexturised so that it could be removed from its backing, returned to the place it had been painted […] and dipped in a detergent solution whence would emerge a clean and unmarked sheet of Whatman paper.”

As such, Bartlebooth figuratively “starts from nothing” as the project has no marked purpose outside its own completion. He literally “ends up with nothing” due to the planned destruction of his work (Life a User’s Manual2 134-135).

MeisterEckhart wrote on Mar 17^th, 2024 at 2:19pm:



Thanks - I'll try that next time.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 18^th, 2024 at 4:33am:

And CHUMP would have got you all 5 letters.

You're going to need to stop posting the image of your game if you use fixed words every time, or you might find others who don't will start hitting 1- and 2-line wins!

Wordle 1,003 4/6

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The full Eckhart suite


Wordle 1,004 4/6

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Bobby. wrote on Mar 19^th, 2024 at 6:08am:


Same here.

Redmond Neck wrote on Mar 20^th, 2024 at 5:18am:



Redmond wins another Einstein award today.