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disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory Volume 8 peregriNations Article 6 4-15-1999 The Probabilities of Sinking for Kerry Coons Peter Neufeld San Francisco State University DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/DISCLOSURE.08.06 Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure  Part of the Poetry Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Neufeld, Peter (1999) "The Probabilities of Sinking for Kerry Coons," disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Vol. 8 , Article 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/DISCLOSURE.08.06 Available at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol8/iss1/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Social Theory at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory by an authorized editor of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact UKnowledge@lsv.uky.edu. Peter Neufeld The Probabilities of Sinking for Kerry Coons Altitudes often reach 30,000 feet or more the improbability of flying a nearly prenatal instinct to fear death by falling in human life a lack of support or airspeed are inevitable the process of travel by boat for example rusted rail and leaning give way to 781 watch island appear then disappear tum head follow strict increments of horizonal gradations of opaque to transparent mist the brown of river gives way imperceptibly to the blue green of sea Hard to express yourself clearly and to be heard. Support promised to be given turning out to be merely a dream. If looking for a mate, watch out for a possible serious mistake. Legal case in your favor. Winning good company. Meeting relatives. No lucks. Tendency towards an aim does not imply that the aim is attained. The aim is attainable only in approximations. 179 sugar snow beneath thick slabs of ice give way to the occasional science of the avalanche as unpredictable as they are imprecise the firebreather speaks a new language of heat and kerosene members of that profession are highly susceptible to consumption and chronic bronchial inflammation The loss of the Miranda was still fresh on everyone's mind. The main object of the expedition was to study Greenland's glacier system, the inland ice cap and ice-bergs; and to map the hitherto unknown portions of Melville Bay. Sketch the hu-man, animal, and vegetable. Name life of the arctic region. Visit Peary's camp and bring back news of him in advance of his return. Return to Philadelphia. Drift into journalism. Engineer the mountains of Pennsylvania. He has since time traveled ex-tensively. Hunted in the vicinity of Equator. Shot reindeer feeding on lichen in the Arctic Tundra. tick-tock treasures the nursery the infants magazine the vanishing pictures of yellow beauty white wings and similar things zigzag journeys around the world little shrines the house beautiful in other time, other season cousin Anthony and I inspired little rivers through suffering little journeys we found black pebbles and cool to the touch five sins of an architect 801 Lisa Stein and Amy Wright (Re)-Defining Scottish Nationalism after Devolution disClosure interviews Cairns Craig (4 April 1998) Carins Craig is the Chair of the English Department at the Univer-sity of Edinburgh, Scotland, the general editor of the Determinatio~s series on Scottish culture and poli-tics (Edinburgh UP) and general editor of a four-volume series en-titled The Histon1 of Scottish Litera-ture (also Edinburgh UP). He is the author of Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry: Richest to the Rich-est (1982), Out of History: Narra~ve Paradigms in Scottish and English Culture (1996) and of many articles on Scottish literature, nationalism, regionalism, and cultural identity. His most recent publication is "I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot and Empiricism's Art of Memory" (Re-vue de Morale et de Metaphysique, forthcoming) and he is currently writing a book on the twentieth-century Scottish novel. With Scottish devolution hav-ing occurred in September of 199~, Dr. Craig's participation in the Uru-versity of Kentucky Committee for Social Theory Distinguished 181 

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