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Allow nine seconds to view this modified image of the American financier Hetty Green (1834-1916). During the Gilded Age she was the richest woman in the United States, famed for that and notorious for her miserliness. The unmodified image can be found online, but I haven’t yet located information about the original photograph beyond a claim that it dates from 1913.

Loss of signal: the unforgettable gets forgotten

On May 31, 2024, I posted to this blog a note about a then current event. Its title incorporated the event’s date in history and an allusion: the word “hats.”

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2024/05/31/may-30-2024-dream-following-loss/

It may not have been a good poem in 2024. In 2026, with the 2024 senses of “May 30, 1924” and “hats” so vanished that even to wonder about them won’t occur to anyone, it can’t be a poem at all. Inevitably, the time occupied by 2026, when “Is he still alive?” was a verse in American English understandable to be the text of an aubade, is due to go on the market as another vacancy. Sansculottisme must become sanscasquettestupidisme.

Perhaps, in grotesque,  it already is.

https://fonts.google.com/?categoryFilters=Sans+Serif:%2FSans%2FGrotesque