8 September, p.s.

This post repeats what was in e-mail sent out, minutes ago.

first off, keys alas won't be in your mailboxes until tomorrow. there's a form to sign, get it to me when you can.

still waiting for titles and tweet-length summaries of your thesis proposals (140 characters, up to 280).

for Thursday, read and consider :

1. First Things First
   Ken Garland (1963)
2. First Things First Manifesto
   Emigre 51, 1999
   (these relate in particular to Leslie's work)
   be aware of the Emigre collection at Letterform Archive
   and
   
3. Heinrich von Kleist, "On the gradual completion of thoughts during speech"
   in the Bosch series type specimen book that you have received via e-mail and in hard copy
   the text is only six pages long, internal (not pdf) page 11-17.
   it concerns thinking as stammering things out, and connects with last week's comparison of the mind to the Magic 8-Ball.
   and
   primarily for Leslie, but for others if interested,
4. Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever
   Robert Macfarlane. The Guardian (1 April 2016)
   a kind of overview of the environmental moment (pre pandemic, pre Black Lives Matter, pre economic recession etc)