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- buy: the very appealing artifacts of a british art collective at niff actuals. alas, they have sold out of non-specific tape measures, but you will be relieved to hear that globes hand-painted from memory and 'dealer's delight' playing cards are still available.
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- listen: harry partch was a composer. also a hobo, philosopher and musical theorist; inventor of musical instruments including the 'quadrangularis reversum' and 'cloud-chamber bowls'. he believed that western music was limited by the twelve-tone equal temperament scale, and in response developed new scales based on 'just intonation'; he invented a wonderful-sounding thing, the tonality diamond, setting out a 43-tone scale. experimental music fans will enjoy this online sample from his 'castor & pollux'; you can buy his stuff there, too.
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- drink: exciting flavored ice-water. half-fill a glass pitcher with ice; add attractive looking flavoring agents such as, a sprig of rosemary with thin lemon slices, or, a vanilla bean with shards of orange peel, or thinly sliced rounds of cucumbers and oranges. fill pitcher with drinking water and stir. yum; no calories, and beautiful to behold.
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