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PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD UNMENTIONED IN CAPE COD : THE REVEREND ENOCH PRATT 1 NARRATIVE HISTORYAMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY 1. Disambiguation: Another Enoch Pratt would be born on September 10, 1808 to Isaac and Naomi Pratt of North Middleborough, Massachusetts, who would become a noted industrialist. This other Enoch Pratt would in fact be named after his uncle, the Reverend Enoch Pratt. A philanthropist, he would found the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore, Maryland.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD

UNMENTIONED IN CAPE COD:

THE REVEREND ENOCH PRATT1

“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY

1. Disambiguation: Another Enoch Pratt would be born on September 10, 1808 to Isaac and Naomi Pratt of North Middleborough, Massachusetts, who would become a noted industrialist. This other Enoch Pratt would in fact be named after his uncle, the Reverend Enoch Pratt. A philanthropist, he would found the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore, Maryland.

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CAPE COD: Thomas Prince, who was several times the governor of thePlymouth colony, was the leader of the settlement of Eastham.There was recently standing, on what was once his farm, in thistown, a pear-tree which is said to have been brought from England,and planted there by him, about two hundred years ago. It wasblown down a few months before we were there. A late account saysthat it was recently in a vigorous state; the fruit small, butexcellent; and it yielded on an average fifteen bushels. Someappropriate lines have been addressed to it, by a Mr. Heman Doane,from which I will quote, partly because they are the only specimenof Cape Cod verse which I remember to have seen, and partlybecause they are not bad.

“Two hundred years have, on the wings of Time, Passed, with their joys and woes, since thou, Old Tree!

Put forth thy first leaves in this foreign clime, Transplanted from the soil beyond the sea. * * * * * *

[These stars represent the more clerical lines, and also thosewhich have deceased.]

“That exiled band long since have passed away, And still, Old Tree! thou standest in the place

Where Prince’s hand did plant thee in his day– An undesigned memorial of his race

And time; of those our honor’d fathers, when They came from Plymouth o’er and settled here;

Doane, Higgins, Snow, and other worthy men, Whose names their sons remember to revere. * * * * * *“Old Time has thinned thy boughs, Old Pilgrim Tree! And bowed thee with the weight of many years;

Yet, ’mid the frosts of age, thy bloom we see, And yearly still thy mellow fruit appears.”

There are some other lines which I might quote, if they were nottied to unworthy companions, by the rhyme. When one ox will liedown, the yoke bears hard on him that stands up.

HEMAN DOANE

PEOPLE OFCAPE COD

ENOCH PRATT

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July 31, Tuesday: Enoch Pratt was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts to William Pratt and Mary Kingman Pratt.

NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT

1781

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Enoch Pratt graduated from the College of Rhode Island. He would study theology with Dr. Kirkland in Boston.

Friends on Nantucket Island began sending off their children for a guarded education in their faith, at the Quaker school of Friend Elisha Thornton in Providence, Rhode Island. –Except for the ten-or-eleven-year-old who would become Friend Lucretia Mott, for her family in the following year would be relocating from Nantucket Island to Boston:

In 1804 my father’s family removed to Boston, and in the publicand private schools of that city I mingled with all classeswithout distinction. My parents were of the Religious Societyof Friends, and endeavored to preserve in their children thepeculiarities of that sect, as well as to instill its moreimportant principles. My father had a desire to make hisdaughters useful.

LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD?— NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES.

LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.

1803

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October 28, Wednesday: Enoch Pratt, after studying theology with Dr. Kirkland in Boston, was ordained as pastor of the Congregational church in West Barnstable, Massachusetts (he would remain with this congregation until 1837).

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal:

4th day 28th of 10 M / Much engaged in my occupation, but notwithstanding that I have felt my mind enlivened with the precious influence of the holy spirit, not for many days have I felt so refreshed, So it is after a time of Poverty & leaness comes a time of Strength, & for this visitation of divine love, Oh my soul be thou thankful

THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1807

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

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April 27, Thursday: The Reverend Enoch Pratt got married with Mary Field of Boston (1782-1826). The couple would produce 4 children.

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal:

5th day 27th of 4 M / Went this morning on Horse back to Portsmouth to attend our Monthly Meeting, before Meeting stoped at Z Chases & P Lawtons While riding out the mind was brought in many serious reflections particularly on the necessity of Seeing our own State & condition & the many things that Obstruct a clear sight —At meeting our friend H Almy had a short but very acceptable testimony & to me it was a most excellent Meeting - In the last we had much buisness & Some laboring cases, but a good measure of life was retained thro’ the Whole And I dont know as ever I was better satisfied with my own conduct in any meeting, the life was more than commonly prevalent in my mind & I feel truly thankful for once more being able to feel & be renewedly confirmed that the good spirit is with me at least at times -After meeting dined at Z Chases then rode home & found my Dear H as well as when I left her - Father & Mother R took tea with us & E Earl set the evening & G Robinsons called -

THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1809

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March 4, Monday: Elizabeth Field Pratt was born to Mary Field Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt.

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal:

2nd day 4 of 3 Mo// My feelings have been sweetly enlivended particularly this evening & I have rejoiced in heart that the bonds of heaviness have been a little broken —

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1811

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September 5, Sunday: William Hildreth of Concord died.

Mary R. Pratt was born to Mary Field Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt.

There was an encounter off Monhegan Island in Maine waters between the USS Enterprise and HMS Boxer. It was all so very picturesque. We can be sure that somebody made points by being exceedingly manly or something.

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal:

1st day 9 M 5th 1813 / We had a Short testimony in the forenoon Supplication in the Afternoon. — Our dear little son has been quite indisposed for several days & this Afternoon we gave him an emmetic which opperated favorably in the evening. —

1813

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May 4, Tuesday: Sophia B. Pratt was born to Mary Field Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt.

1819

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April 25, Wednesday: Joseph W. Pratt was born to Mary Field Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt (Joseph would move to California).

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal:

4th day 25th of 4th M / This Afternoon Walked out to Uncle Stantons & lodged - Next Morning Rode with Aunt Patty to Meeting it being Monthly Meeting — In the first Hannah Dennis was engaged in a lively sweet testimony of encouragement & Sarah Tucker was concerned in a Truly Apostolic testimony which strengthened (I have no doubt) The hearts of Many brethren -Mine did rejoice to feel renewed spring of gospel love flow to the people & a very good meeting it Was. — The buisness of the last meeting went on well - A proposition was made from the Select Committee to add some suitable friends as Elders which after being considered, a committee was appointed to consider of The Subject & report such names as they might think suitable. —Returned & dined at Uncle Stantons sister Ruth with us - & after dinner Uncle Sent his waggon to bring us home. —

1821

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July 15, Saturday: A Pan-American Congress met in Panama in an effort to unite the American republics (the effort would fail).

The wife of the Reverend Enoch Pratt, Mary Field Pratt, died. The body would be placed in West Barnstable Cemetery.

1826

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December 11, Tuesday: The widower Reverend Enoch Pratt remarried with Mercy L. Snow, of Brewster. The couple would produce five children.

1827

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November 6, Friday: Josephine R. Snow Pratt was born to Mercy Snow Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt (this child would die during 1830).

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal:

6th day Our School committee today has been a most interesting one to me - particularly, as I have been called to take a part in the Affairs of the Institution by a very unanimous voice of the committee present. It has been under consideration for some Months to have Some further Assistance in the Superintendency & My Wife & I have concluded to accept of it, which will occasion our residence at Providence for some Months to come. —The committee divided - a part going to visit the boys & a part the girls School I went with those who visited the boys & a very interesting opportunity it proved to be Rowland Greene & Thomas Anthony being much favoured in public testimony & general advice to the children. —

1828

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

QUAKER EDUCATION

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December 31, Thursday: The final hanging in England, of a forger.2

Enoch H. Pratt was born to Mercy Snow Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt (Enoch H. would go to California).

1829

2. The initial such hanging for forgery had taken place on June 4, 1732 and the preponderance of the executions had occurred in 1818, with 24 such hangings.

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November 14, Monday: Francis G. Pratt was born to Mercy Snow Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt (Francis would die during 1833).

James Kirk Paulding’s play THE LION OF THE WEST was staged at the Park Theater in New-York, in a version thoroughly revised by Concord’s playwright John Augustus Stone.

Ignace Joseph Pleyel died in Paris at the age of 74.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel died in Berlin at the age of 61, of the cholera. Contrary to what might have been anticipated history did not come to an end (except, we notice, for him).

The Norfolk Herald in reporting the hanging of Nat Turner added that “General Nat” (the white master Nathaniel Turner) had sold Nat Turner’s body for dissection “and spent the money on ginger cakes.” That surgeons dissected the corpse seems clear, for this would have been according to usual practice. It is alleged, however, that prior to dissection, they had skinned it, and that after dissection, the flesh was rendered for its grease. Turner’s “curious skull” was said by the white people to have “resembled the head of a sheep” and to have been “at least three quarters of an inch thick.” The skeleton, presumably inclusive of the skull, was said to have become the property of a Doctor Massenberg. A Southampton souvenir collector would make the claim that he possessed a coin purse made from the skin of Turner’s scrotum.

1831

THE MARKET FOR HUMAN BODY PARTS

It isn’t something that only other people do.
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March 14, Thursday: Johann Nepomuk Hummel began a new tour of London as a conductor, directing Der Freischutz at the King’s Theater.

Sarah C. Pratt was born to Mercy Snow Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt (Sarah would marry with Walter Curtis).

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal:

3rd M 14th 1833 / This is our Sons birth day & brings him to manhood, as respects the Law, as he is now 21 Years of Age - The Many favours he has experienced thro’ his childhood, up to the present day - has ofter & does now, cloath my mind with humility & thankfulness - few lads who had nothing of this world to call his own, have been more amply provided for, both in food & Rament & also in an opportunity to procure useful learning & the means of a future livelyhood - My desire is Strong & Ardent that he may walk consistently thro’ his future life, & in short be a deeply religious man - I am confirmed that the tribute of devotion to the cause of Truth & righteousness is loudly called for at his hands & in case of failure no small responsibility rests upon him. —

1833

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The Reverend Enoch Pratt was acting as a supply minister for the South Wellfleet Congregational Church.

The Reverend Orestes Augustus Brownson’s “Victor Cousin.” The Unitarian reverend moved to Chelsea, to engage in an experimental ministry to the working classes of Boston. That is, he became the pastor of his own religious organization, the Society for Christian union and Progress (until 1842). He published a pamphlet titled “New Views of Christianity, Society and the Church” which caused the expression “new views” to become a synonym for Transcendentalism.

Horace Wells completed the study of dentistry in Boston, and eventually would go to Hartford, Connecticut to practice. At that time he was considered a leader of his profession.

CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT

September 14, Wednesday: Frederic S. Pratt was born to Mercy Snow Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt (Frederic would marry with Phebe Smith).

1836

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The New York politician Philip Hone described the glorious geist of his countrymen: “Go ahead is our maxim and our password. We go ahead with a vengeance, regardless of the consequences and indifferent about the value of human life.”

The Reverend Enoch Pratt resigned his pastorate at the Congregational church in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. The family would relocate to Brewster and he would continue to preach by supplying vacant pulpits, while acting as an agent for Bible societies distributing the Scriptures through the country.

WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MINDYOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF

1837

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March 13, Wednesday: Mercy Snow Pratt, 2d wife of the Reverend Enoch Pratt, died.

1839

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April 18, Saturday: The widower Reverend Enoch Pratt got remarried again, with Lucy Jenkins Alley. The couple would produce three additional children.

1840

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The Reverend Enoch Pratt would serve at the Eastham Congregational Church, from this point until at least 1844.

With the approval of her father, Ellen Devereux Sewall became engaged to wed a Unitarian minister, Joseph Osgood, whose family was incidentally of the same social standing as her own family.3

1842

3. Later, when Ellen’s son by Joseph asked what would have happened had his grandfather taken the same attitude toward his father in 1842 that he had taken toward Henry in 1840, Ellen reassured him:

We would probably have gotten married anyway.

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May 6, Friday: Frederick Douglass spoke in Southbridge, Massachusetts.

George G. Pratt was born to Lucy Jenkins Alley Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt.

An attempt was made on the life of Lilburn W. Boggs, the man who had while governor of Missouri issued Executive Order 44 for the extermination of the Mormons. Fired upon through a window while reading the newspaper in his study, he sustained two large buckshot balls to the skull, one to the neck, and one to the throat (which he swallowed). Orrin Porter Rockwell, former Danite and later a member of the Council of Fifty, was suspected.

Having arranged for his brother Junius Alcott to stay at Dove Cottage with Abba Alcott and their daughters in his absence, Bronson Alcott left Concord at noon, bound for Boston Harbor to embark there for England aboard the Rosalind.

THE ALCOTT FAMILY

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The Reverend Enoch Pratt’s A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY, ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL, OF EASTHAM, WELLFLEET AND ORLEANS, COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE, MASS. FROM 1644 TO 1844 was published in Yarmouth, Massachusetts by W.S. Fisher and Company.

(Henry Thoreau would consult this volume.)

DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.

February 8, Thursday: Charles K. Pratt was born to Lucy Jenkins Alley Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt (Charles would die in 1853).

1844

COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE

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September 26, Saturday: Thomas Clarkson died in Playford, Suffolk.

Ida Hyde Pratt was born to Lucy Jenkins Alley Pratt and the Reverend Enoch Pratt (Ida would die in 1847).

From records of the Donner party kept by Hiram Miller and James F. Reed, it would appear that they made camp along the Humboldt River near present-day Hunter Siding, Nevada, at the junction with the California Trail about 7 miles west of modern Elko: “Sat 26 this day made 2 miles in the Cannon and traveled to the Junction of Marys River in all about 8.” For the next couple of weeks they would be traveling along the Humboldt River.

1846

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November 5, Monday: Henry Thoreau checked out, from Harvard Library, the Reverend Enoch Pratt’s A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY, ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL, OF EASTHAM, WELLFLEET AND ORLEANS, COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE, MASS. FROM 1644 TO 1844. (Yarmouth, Massachusetts: W.S. Fisher and Company, 1844).

http://capecodhistory.us/Pratt/Pratt000-toc.htm#title

In this volume we can read the lines addressed by famous local poet Heman Doane to an old pear tree that was then standing on the Governor Prince farm at Eastham, Massachusetts, an old pear tree said to have been planted there by none other than that Governor himself, included by Thoreau in CAPE COD:

1849

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CAPE COD: Thomas Prince, who was several times the governor of thePlymouth colony, was the leader of the settlement of Eastham.There was recently standing, on what was once his farm, in thistown, a pear-tree which is said to have been brought from England,and planted there by him, about two hundred years ago. It wasblown down a few months before we were there. A late account saysthat it was recently in a vigorous state; the fruit small, butexcellent; and it yielded on an average fifteen bushels. Someappropriate lines have been addressed to it, by a Mr. Heman Doane,from which I will quote, partly because they are the only specimenof Cape Cod verse which I remember to have seen, and partlybecause they are not bad.

“Two hundred years have, on the wings of Time, Passed, with their joys and woes, since thou, Old Tree!Put forth thy first leaves in this foreign clime,

Transplanted from the soil beyond the sea. * * * * * *

[These stars represent the more clerical lines, and also thosewhich have deceased.]

“That exiled band long since have passed away, And still, Old Tree! thou standest in the placeWhere Prince’s hand did plant thee in his day–

An undesigned memorial of his raceAnd time; of those our honor’d fathers, when

They came from Plymouth o’er and settled here;Doane, Higgins, Snow, and other worthy men,

Whose names their sons remember to revere. * * * * * *“Old Time has thinned thy boughs, Old Pilgrim Tree! And bowed thee with the weight of many years;Yet, ’mid the frosts of age, thy bloom we see,

And yearly still thy mellow fruit appears.”

There are some other lines which I might quote, if they were nottied to unworthy companions, by the rhyme. When one ox will liedown, the yoke bears hard on him that stands up.

HEMAN DOANE

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Thoreau also checked out some volume which on the library’s charging list is described as “Rafn, Amer. discovd by Northmen AR17.” This amounted to six tracts by Carl Christian Rafn and other authors.4

He also checked out the 3d volume of one series or another of the COLLECTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (we don’t know which series).

Also, he again borrowed the Simon-Alexandre Langlois (1788-1854) translation of the HARIVANSA into French.

4. Carl Christian Rafn (1795-1864) was the author of ANTIQUITATES AMERICANAE, a volume which purported to demonstrate that the North American continent had been discovered by Northmen already in the 10th Century, that from the 11th to the 14th Century the coastline had been partially colonized as far south as Rhode Island, and that Vikings had ventured as far south as the peninsula of Florida. Rafn theories would receive at least partial confirmation in 1961 when the remains of a Viking village would be discovered at L’Anse aux Meadows on the northernmost tip of Newfoundland by Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad — since Newfoundland, despite being an island, is considered as part of the North American continent.

S.-A. LANGLOIS, IS.-A. LANGLOIS, II

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WALDEN: After a still winter night I awoke with the impressionthat some question had been put to me, which I had beenendeavoring in vain to answer in my sleep, as what-how-when-where? But there was dawning Nature, in whom all creatures live,looking in at my broad windows with serene and satisfied face,and no question on her lips. I awoke to an answered question, toNature and daylight. The snow lying deep on the earth dotted withyoung pines, and the very slope of the hill on which my house isplaced, seemed to say, Forward! Nature puts no question andanswers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken herresolution. “O Prince, our eyes contemplate with admiration andtransmit to the soul the wonderful and varied spectacle of thisuniverse. The night veils without doubt a part of this gloriouscreation; but day comes to reveal to us this great work, whichextends from earth even into the plains of the ether.”

Thoreau is quoting from the Harivansa.
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February 20, Monday: Enoch Pratt died in Brewster, Massachusetts at the age of 80.

Feb. 20. P.M. — I see directly in front [of] the Depot Lee [?] house, on the only piece of bare groundI see hereabouts, a large flock of lesser redpolls feeding. They must be picking up earth, sand, or the witheredgrass. They are so intent on it that they allow me to come quite near. This, then, is one use for the drifting ofsnow which lays bare some spots, however deep it may be elsewhere, — so that the birds, etc., can come at theearth. I never thought of this use before. First the snow fell deep and level on the 18th, then, the 19th, came highwind and plowed it out here and there to the ground; and so it will always be in some places, however deep itmay have been.J. Farmer tells me that his grandfather once, when moving some rocks in the winter, found a striped squirrelfrozen stiff. He put him in his pocket, and when he got home laid him on the hearth, and after a while he wassurprised to see him running about the room as lively as ever he was.I notice a very pale pink reflection from snowy roofs and sides of white houses at sunrise. So both the pink andthe green are phenomena of the morning, but in a much less degree, which shows that they depend more on thetwilight and the grossness of the atmosphere than on the angle at which the sunlight falls.

“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY

1860

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COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In addition to the property of others,such as extensive quotations and reproductions ofimages, this “read-only” computer file contains a greatdeal of special work product of Austin Meredith,copyright 2014. Access to these interim materials willeventually be offered for a fee in order to recoup someof the costs of preparation. My hypercontext buttoninvention which, instead of creating a hypertext leapthrough hyperspace —resulting in navigation problems—allows for an utter alteration of the context withinwhich one is experiencing a specific content alreadybeing viewed, is claimed as proprietary to AustinMeredith — and therefore freely available for use byall. Limited permission to copy such files, or anymaterial from such files, must be obtained in advancein writing from the “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo”Project, 833 Berkeley St., Durham NC 27705. Pleasecontact the project at <[email protected]>.

Prepared: December 6, 2014

“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over untiltomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.”

– Remark by character “Garin Stevens”in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST

Well, tomorrow is such and such a date and so it began on that date in like 8000BC? Why 8000BC, because it was the beginning of the current interglacial -- or what?
Bearing in mind that this is America, "where everything belongs," the primary intent of such a notice is to prevent some person or corporate entity from misappropriating the materials and sequestering them as property for censorship or for profit.
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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT

GENERATION HOTLINE

This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by ahuman. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested thatwe pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of theshoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What thesechronological lists are: they are research reports compiled byARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term theKouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such arequest for information we merely push a button.

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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obviousdeficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored inthe contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then weneed to punch that button again and recompile the chronology —but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary“writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of thisoriginating contexture improve, and as the programming improves,and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whateverhas been needed in the creation of this facility, the entireoperation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminishedneed to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expectto achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring roboticresearch librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

First come first serve. There is no charge.Place requests with <[email protected]>. Arrgh.

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