THE STATIONER OF NEWBURYPORT NARRATIVE HISTORY AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project Bulkeley Emerson
1732 June 15, Thursday (Old Style): Bulkeley Emerson was born at Malden, Massachusetts, son of Joseph Emerson and Mary Moody Emerson. He would become a stationer in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and the town s bookbinder, as well as running its post office out of his shop near Market Square. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT Bulkeley Emerson Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project
1801 April 21, Tuesday: A dramma serio eroico per musica, Ginevra di Scozia, with music by Simon Mayr to words of Rossi after Ariosto, was performed for the initial time, in Trieste, at the inauguration of the Teatro Nuovo. Bulkeley Emerson the entrepreneur of Newburyport, Massachusetts died. DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. Bulkeley Emerson Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project
1807 April 11, Saturday: When Spanish soprano Isabella Angela Colbran performed in Bologna, this was Gioachino Rossini s initial glimpse of his future mistress and wife. Robert Bulkeley Emerson was born in Boston, named perhaps after Bulkeley Emerson of Newburyport, Massachusetts (1732-1801), an entrepreneur. Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 7 day 11 of 4 M / When the buisness of the day was over, towards night went to Connanicut with R. Greene & J Lankson to be at meeting tomorrow. we lodged at Cousin J Greenes, & the next morng took a memorable walk with my dearest R in which he was very communicative on Subjects which interested my feelings as well as instructive to my mind. he gave some particulars of his present journey, & visits to some of the familys in Newport, some pleasant some painful, but on the whole a pleasant prospect among the Youth of our Moy [Monthly] Meeting. & some hopeful who are not members. The meeting was large and favor d. Rowland first sympathisingly addressed the little remnant of that meeting that were members with himself, incoraging them to hold on their way saying Fear not little flock it is your heavenly fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdom - then to the People he preached the Cross & the necessity of bearing it, dispising the Shame, & at a second Standing he affectionatly addressed the Youth, shewing the prefference between a pious life & beauty of Vanity & the necessity & beauty of an early dedication to the requirings of truth we dined at J Greenes & after dinner Rowland feeling his mind at liberty to proceed homeward we walked toward the ferry. we had a little sweet conversation, & parted at the wharf in much love & I trust true affection. in this little opportunity my mind seemed doubly united to this my very endeared friend, with whom I have been some Years acquainted & allways found him to be a near sympathising friend, one that is deeply gifted in the divine Mystery having a word of comfort in due season to Such as are afflicted, & to those who are traveling Zion ward, & a Skilful reprover of unfaithfulness May he with myself be preserved in the truth & finaly become so established as never to depart therefrom After parting with him at the ferry returned to Cousin Greenes & spent a little time with them in a greeable conversation, particularly with cousin Anne. - Then crossed the ferry home, with a large company of rude young men & boys. Several of them were drunk, & used very bad language. I pittyed them & felt thankful that I was not like them. Spent the evening with my precious H relating to her the occurences of the day & wished she could have partook of our Zest
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MAGISTERIAL HISTORY IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In addition to the property of others, such as extensive quotations and reproductions of images, this read-only computer file contains a great deal of special work product of Austin Meredith, copyright 2014. Access to these interim materials will eventually be offered for a fee in order to recoup some of the costs of preparation. My hypercontext button invention which, instead of creating a hypertext leap through hyperspace resulting in navigation problems allows for an utter alteration of the context within which one is experiencing a specific content already being viewed, is claimed as proprietary to Austin Meredith and therefore freely available for use by all. Limited permission to copy such files, or any material from such files, must be obtained in advance in writing from the Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project, 833 Berkeley St., Durham NC 27705. Please contact the project at <Kouroo@kouroo.info>. It s all now you see. Yesterday won t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. Remark by character Garin Stevens in William Faulkner s INTRUDER IN THE DUST Prepared: October 1, 2014 Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project Bulkeley Emerson
ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT GENERATION HOTLINE This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot Laura (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such a request for information we merely push a button.
Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obvious deficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored in the contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then we need 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 this originating contexture improve, and as the programming improves, and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whatever has been needed in the creation of this facility, the entire operation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminished need to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expect to achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring robotic research librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world. First come first serve. There is no charge. Place requests with <Kouroo@kouroo.info>. Arrgh.