Анализ сайта chamblissian.com
Основное Готовность: 70%
Домен
chamblissian.com
Состояние доменного имени
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Проверяем корректность доменного имени и наличие технических проблем на уровне домена.
Длина домена велика. Но если вы продвигаете запрос, входящий в название домена, то это хорошо.
Домен второго уровня идеален для продвижения.
Ответ сервера
200 Успешный ответ
HTTP-код ответа и цепочка редиректов
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Код 200 — страница доступна. Коды 3xx — редиректы (цепочки замедляют загрузку и размывают ссылочный вес). Коды 4xx/5xx — ошибки, поисковик не сможет проиндексировать страницу.
Сервер настроен корректно.
Цепочка редиректов:
http://chamblissian.com
301 MovedPermanently
https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/
200 OK
Безопасность
Сайт безопасен
Использование HTTPS и SSL-сертификат
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HTTPS — обязательный стандарт. Google и Яндекс отдают предпочтение защищённым сайтам. Отсутствие SSL или просроченный сертификат ведут к предупреждениям в браузере и снижению позиций.
На сайте работает защищенный протокол ssl и сайт открывается по https.
Ssl-сертификат действителен до 27.10.2026 10:32:25.
Включён HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) — защита от подмены на http.
HTTP автоматически перенаправляется на HTTPS.
Поздравляем! Сайт не содержится в реестре РКН.
Кодировка
utf-8
Кодировка символов страницы
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Стандарт — UTF-8. Неправильная кодировка вызывает нечитаемые символы и мешает поисковику корректно распознать текст страницы.
Указана кодировка на странице utf-8.
Язык
en
Атрибут lang в HTML-теге
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Атрибут lang (<html lang="ru">) сообщает поисковикам и браузерам, на каком языке написана страница. Помогает при ранжировании в региональном поиске.
Язык документа указан явно: en.
Скорость загрузки
~1,52сек
Время отклика сервера (TTFB)
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Time To First Byte — время до получения первого байта от сервера. Норма до 200 мс. Медленный отклик ухудшает пользовательский опыт и ранжирование: Яндекс и Google учитывают скорость страниц.
Скорость загрузки сайта 1,52сек превышает 1 секунду. Желательно улучшить работу сайта!
Объем документа
335Кб
Размер HTML-кода страницы
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Слишком большой HTML замедляет парсинг браузером и сканирование поисковым роботом. Рекомендуется не более 200 Кб.
Объем html-документа 335Кб оптимален.
Структура html-документа корректна.
Ресурсы
Ресурсы: 14
Внешние ресурсы страницы (CSS, JS, изображения)
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Количество и тип подключённых ресурсов влияют на скорость загрузки. Большое число запросов увеличивает время рендеринга страницы.
Кол-во файлов ресурсов 14 много для одной страницы. Приемлемо до 10. Проведите оптимизацию файлов ресурсов!
Показать полный список ресурсов
| Тип | Название | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| stylesheet | text/css | /_static/??-eJx9jEEOAiEQBD/kQECjeDC+ZWEnijIwYWA3/l72op689KFTVXplCCU3zE1z6reYRYfiUwlP0VYZpwxIJE4IFRd10HOU9iFA2iuhCiI7/ROiDt9WxfETT20jCOc4YUIa2D9t5eGA91xRBMZS7ATtPkTZvCtdzNEZt7f2fHq8Afl7R7w=&cssminify=yes |
| stylesheet | text/css | /wp-content/themes/pub/kubrick/style.css?m=1741693332i&cssminify=yes |
| stylesheet | text/css | /_static/??-eJzTLy/QTc7PK0nNK9HPLdUtyClNz8wr1i9KTcrJTwcy0/WTi5G5ekCujj52Temp+bo5+cmJJZn5eSgc3bScxMwikFb7XFtDE1NLExMLc0OTLACohS2q&cssminify=yes |
| stylesheet | text/css | /wp-content/mu-plugins/global-print/global-print.css?m=1465851035i&cssminify=yes |
| stylesheet | text/css | /wp-content/themes/h4/global.css?m=1420737423i&cssminify=yes |
| stylesheet | text/css | /_static/??-eJyNjMEKhDAMBX9IfaiIXsRPWdxskGqbFNPi7y+CevY4wzA4YkkqiSUh5DL6vDgxrJziTNvFCKqCjxPC1yttBjtc5L0iswLvD0F/2bOB5l2zsX+iW5zDKYx1P3RN07b1sP4BKPs7aw==&cssminify=yes |
| js | text/javascript | /wp-content/js/rlt-proxy.js?m=1720530689i |
| js | https://v0.wordpress.com/js/next/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250 | |
| js | https://v0.wordpress.com/js/next/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250 | |
| js | https://v0.wordpress.com/js/next/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250 | |
| js | https://v0.wordpress.com/js/next/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250 | |
| js | text/javascript | /_static/??-eJx9jt0KwjAMRl/INmxT3I34KNJ1UbK1TWna7fX9waqIeBVO+HLywRqV5ZAxZIiuXCgIWB4c21mg1U2vGyXko0OVcNFbGEkyTO+QcmxGTNpT0JNs4MPni6rKCXM0dn4yeOYAJwoWhkJuBGsSF0H3ytXFL211LjQigxHBLPdGD64zJhRRdE7GozKR/nSrv9QaLfsvvN0d/aHZ97u27bqmn65+knCc |
| js | //stats.wp.com/w.js?69 | |
| js | /wp-content/js/bilmur.min.js?i=17&m=202634 |
Серверные заголовки
Кол-во: 10
HTTP-заголовки ответа сервера
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Заголовки сервера передают браузеру и поисковику служебную информацию: кеширование, безопасность (CSP, HSTS), сжатие (gzip). Правильная настройка ускоряет загрузку и повышает защищённость.
Найдены серверные заголовки 10шт. Подробнее про серверные заголовки.
Показать полный список серверных заголовков
| Ключ | Значение |
|---|---|
| Server | nginx |
| Date | Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:15:08 GMT |
| Vary | Accept-Encoding |
| x-hacker | Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. |
| host-header | WordPress.com |
| Link | <https://public-api.wordpress.com/wp-json/?rest_route=/sites/wchambliss.wordpress.com>; rel="https://api.w.org/" |
| x-ac | 13.arn _dca MISS |
| Alt-Svc | clear |
| Strict-Transport-Security | max-age=31536000 |
| Server-Timing | a8c-cdn, dc;desc=arn, cache;desc=MISS;dur=657.0 |
CMS
WordPress
Система управления сайтом (движок)
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CMS — это движок, на котором работает сайт (WordPress, 1C-Bitrix, Tilda и др.). Знание CMS помогает понять возможности SEO-оптимизации и подобрать подходящие инструменты. «Не определена» — вероятно, самописный сайт или нестандартная сборка.
Сайт работает на CMS WordPress.
Веб-сервер
nginx
Программное обеспечение сервера
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Веб-сервер — это ПО, которое отдаёт страницы посетителям (nginx, Apache, IIS, LiteSpeed и др.). Определяется по серверным заголовкам ответа (Server, X-Powered-By и т.п.). «Не определён» — сервер намеренно скрывает эти заголовки, это нормальная практика безопасности.
Сайт работает на веб-сервере nginx.
Мета-теги Готовность: 33%
Title
Chamblissian | A public notebook.
Заголовок страницы в браузере и поисковой выдаче
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Title — главный SEO-заголовок страницы. Влияет на CTR в поиске и ранжирование. Оптимальная длина: 50–70 символов. Ключевые слова — ближе к началу.
Необходимо увеличить число символов в title (текущее значение: 33, оптимально: от 40 до 45)
Дублей словоформ в title не найдено.
Description
A public notebook.
Описание страницы в поисковой выдаче (сниппет)
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Meta Description — текст под заголовком в выдаче. Напрямую на позиции не влияет, но влияет на CTR. Оптимальная длина: 120–160 символов.
Необходимо увеличить число символов в description (текущее значение мало: 18, минимум: 80, оптимально: от 120 до 130)
Keywords
Список ключевых слов страницы (устаревший тег)
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Meta Keywords не учитывается Яндексом и Google для ранжирования с 2009–2012 годов. Заполнение не обязательно, но не вредит. Конкурент может использовать содержимое для анализа.
Установите мета-тег keywords!
Канонический Url
Указывает поисковику основную версию страницы
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Canonical (rel=canonical) предотвращает проблему дублей страниц. Должен точно совпадать с URL проверяемой страницы. Неправильный canonical может передать ссылочный вес на другую страницу.
Рекомендуем прописать канонический Url.
Robots
Есть ошибки
Директивы для поисковых роботов на уровне страницы
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Meta Robots управляет индексацией конкретной страницы: index/noindex — индексировать ли, follow/nofollow — следовать ли по ссылкам. Noindex полностью исключает страницу из поиска.
Meta-тег robots указан, но в нем содержится неизвестное значение...
Адаптивность
Настройка масштабирования на мобильных устройствах
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Тег viewport (<meta name="viewport">) сообщает браузеру, как масштабировать страницу на мобильных. Стандарт: width=device-width, initial-scale=1. Отсутствие — признак отсутствия мобильной версии.
Meta-тег viewport не указан. Страница не адаптивная.
Разметка OpenGraph
Кол-во: 10
Мета-теги для красивых превью в соцсетях
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OpenGraph (og:title, og:description, og:image) управляет тем, как страница выглядит при репосте в социальных сетях и мессенджерах. Отсутствие OG-тегов — невзрачный превью при шеринге.
Разметка OpenGraph задана. Страница оптимизирована под социальные сети.
Показать полный список og мета-тегов
| Тип | Значение |
|---|---|
| og:type | website |
| og:title | Chamblissian |
| og:description | A public notebook. |
| og:url | https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/ |
| og:site_name | Chamblissian |
| og:image | https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg?m=1383295312i |
| og:image:width | 200 |
| og:image:height | 200 |
| og:image:alt | |
| og:locale | en_US |
Все мета-теги
Кол-во: 15
Полный список мета-тегов страницы
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Таблица всех meta-тегов, включая нестандартные. Позволяет найти опечатки, дубли и лишние теги.
Найдены мета-теги 15шт. Мета-теги не видимы для человека и предназначены для обмена информацией между веб-страницей и поисковыми системами, браузерами и другими веб-службами. С ними роботы 🤖 и устройства ведут себя более ожидаемо.
Показать полный список мета-тегов
| Тип | Название | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| name | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| name | generator | WordPress.com |
| name | description | A public notebook. |
| property | og:type | website |
| property | og:title | Chamblissian |
| property | og:description | A public notebook. |
| property | og:url | https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/ |
| property | og:site_name | Chamblissian |
| property | og:image | https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg?m=1383295312i |
| property | og:image:width | 200 |
| property | og:image:height | 200 |
| property | og:image:alt | |
| property | og:locale | en_US |
| property | fb:app_id | 249643311490 |
| property | bilmur:data |
Оптимизация Готовность: 90%
Структура
Ошибок нет
Семантические HTML-элементы страницы
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Проверяет наличие основных структурных элементов: nav, header, footer, main. Корректная семантическая структура помогает поисковику понять архитектуру страницы.
Структура документа корректна (теги <html> и <body> присутствуют по одному на документ).
Контент
Ошибок нет
Объём и качество текстового содержимого
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Анализирует объём полезного текста на странице. Слишком мало — страница может считаться малополезной. Слишком много — ухудшается читаемость и восприятие.
Слова из title 5 встречаются в тексте достаточно.
Абзацев с текстом 179 достаточно.
Среднее число слов в абзаце 44 достаточно.
Кол-во знаков контента 48752 на странице оптимально.
Кол-во слов 8339 на странице оптимально.
Заголовки
Ошибок нет
Иерархия заголовков H1–H6
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H1 должен быть один и содержать ключевой запрос. H2–H6 описывают подразделы. Пропуск уровней (H1 → H3) и несколько H1 — типичные ошибки, снижающие понятность страницы для поисковика.
На странице присутствуют заголовки <h1> 1. Это прекрасно.
На странице присутствуют заголовки <h2> 15. Это хорошо.
Тошнота
3,46
Насколько одно слово доминирует в тексте
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Классическая тошнота = √(частота самого повторяющегося слова). Норма до 7–8: текст воспринимается естественно. Выше — поисковик может счесть страницу переспамленной.
Тошнота страницы в пределах нормы 3,46.
Академич. тошнота
19,40%
Насколько текст перенасыщен ключевыми словами
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Академическая тошнота = (частота слова / общее количество слов) × 100%. Показывает долю конкретного слова в тексте. Норма 5–15%.
Академическая тошнота превышает норму 5-15%. Измените текст страницы!
Семантическое ядро
20
Наиболее часто встречающиеся слова на странице
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Топ слов по частоте использования. Показывает, какие слова доминируют в тексте с точки зрения поисковика.
Контент страницы содержит осмысленный текст и слова.
Показать список слов
| Слово | Кол-во | Частота |
|---|---|---|
| camera | 12 | 0,14% |
| uncategorized | 11 | 0,13% |
| through | 11 | 0,13% |
| posted | 10 | 0,12% |
| iliam: | 10 | 0,12% |
| another | 9 | 0,11% |
| before | 9 | 0,11% |
| obscura | 9 | 0,11% |
| comment | 8 | 0,10% |
| images | 8 | 0,10% |
| chapel | 8 | 0,10% |
| august | 7 | 0,08% |
| around | 7 | 0,08% |
| himself | 7 | 0,08% |
| january | 7 | 0,08% |
| across | 6 | 0,07% |
| having | 6 | 0,07% |
| should | 6 | 0,07% |
| ulysses | 6 | 0,07% |
| perspective | 6 | 0,07% |
Индексация Готовность: 30%
Индексирование
Ошибок нет
Разрешено ли индексирование страницы
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Проверяет, не закрыта ли страница от индексации через robots.txt, meta robots или X-Robots-Tag. Страница, закрытая от индексации, не появится в поисковой выдаче.
Анкоров на странице 121 оптимально. Поисковые роботы обязательно проиндексируют сайт.
Robots.txt
Найден корректный robots.txt
Файл управления сканированием сайта роботами
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Robots.txt указывает поисковым роботам, какие страницы сканировать, а какие — нет. Ошибки в файле могут случайно закрыть важные разделы от индексации.
Robots.txt настроен корректно. Размер файла: 343313 байт. Загружен за: 1сек.
Проверяемая страница не запрещена в robots.txt.
Robots.txt доступен по постоянному адресу
Цепочка редиректов для файла robots.txt:
http://chamblissian.com/robots.txt
301 MovedPermanently
https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/
200 OK
Показать содержимое robots.txt
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Chamblissian | A public notebook.</title>
<link rel="pingback" href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php" />
<meta name='robots' content='max-image-preview:large' />
<link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//s0.wp.com' />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Chamblissian » Feed" href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/feed/" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Chamblissian » Comments Feed" href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/comments/feed/" />
<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
function addLoadEvent(func) {
var oldonload = window.onload;
if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
window.onload = func;
} else {
window.onload = function () {
oldonload();
func();
}
}
}
/* ]]> */
</script>
<style id="wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css">
img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^="auto," i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px}
/*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */
</style>
<style id="wp-emoji-styles-inline-css">
img.wp-smiley, img.emoji {
display: inline !important;
border: none !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
height: 1em !important;
width: 1em !important;
margin: 0 0.07em !important;
vertical-align: -0.1em !important;
background: none !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
/*# sourceURL=wp-emoji-styles-inline-css */
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<h1><a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/">Chamblissian</a></h1>
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<h2><a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/re-transoxiana/" rel="bookmark">Re: Transoxiana</a></h2>
<small>August 2, 2026 </small>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4449" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/re-transoxiana/img_7166/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/img_7166.jpg" data-orig-size="506,268" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_7166" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/img_7166.jpg?w=506" width="506" height="268" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/img_7166.jpg?w=506" alt="" class="wp-image-4449" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/img_7166.jpg 506w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/img_7166.jpg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/img_7166.jpg?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">— <em>from “Oil” by Alexei Parshchikov, in my translation</em></figcaption></figure>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It isn’t the only place I long to visit, but I long to visit Uzbekistan. I have so, so many things I want to see for myself there; so many questions to try to answer, however provisionally. About its earliest Scythian kingdoms and the Achaemenid-period Sogdian satrapy.* About Alexander’s progress across it (from Alexandria on the Oxus to Alexandria Eschate: the point at which he is supposed to have finally answered the question – in one cardinal direction, at least – “Unto where, Alexander?”) and <a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2021/12/03/divine-echoplex/">the century of Greco-Bactrian rule</a> that followed his death and subsequent <a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/it-wasnt-curiosity/">forty years of bloody “funeral games” among his Diadochi</a>. Bukhara. Khiva. Samarkand. <a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/87/">Those blood-sweating horses (descendants of Bucephalus?) that Wu-Ti dispatched Chang Ch’ien to negotiate for in the Ferghana Valley</a>. Hyphae of silk roads. The White Huns, and the Turkic Khanagate, and the Tang. Xuanzang’s very long walk. Traces – however faint now – of Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity, Manichaeanism. Transoxiana’s forcible conversion to Islam by scimitar-wielding Arabians. And the Samanid missionaries who followed behind them, along a path of broken husks of Buddhist stupas. Avicenna. Al-Khwarizmi. Omar Khayyam (who wrote his <em>Treatise on Algebra</em>, and perhaps even began the <em>Rubaiyat</em>, in Samarkand). The Mongols. Episodes from Marco Polo’s <em>Travels</em> and the <em>Rihla</em> of Ibn Battuta. Tamerlane and the Timurid Renaissance. Grandmaster Ali-Shatranj. Shah Rukh. Ulugh Beg and his marvelous observatory. The proto-Mughal chieftain Babur. Uzbek re-conqueror Muhammad Shaybani Khan. And much later, players of the Great Game (e.g., Alexander “Bokhara” Burnes and William Moorcroft) and its mirror Tournament of Shadows (Aleksey Kuropatkin, certainly; and perhaps also the likes of Przhevalsky and Fedchenko). Tsarist annexation. Bolsheviks and Duma loyalists machine gunning each other in the streets of Tashkent – and the birth there, just a few months prior, of Natalia Androsova, who was also Princess Natalia Alexandrovna Romanovskaya-Iskander: circus motorcyclist, coerced Stalinist spy, and, along with her brother Kirill, the last of two Romanovs who were permitted to live in what became of Russia; and who both died in it without ever leaving. The Basmachi revolt. The Uzbek SSR and, after 65-odd (very odd, by most metrics) years, its bloodless assertion of independence. The vast playa that remains of the Aral Sea. The dust.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">*For instance, where was the supposedly impregnable Sogdian Rock fortress near Samarkand that, according to Arrian, in his <em>Anabasis</em>, Alexander seized in 327 BC (along with the princess Roxana: the second-best-looking woman in Asia, according to the Greeks) by means of “men with wings” – i.e., a volunteer group of military rock climbers; approximately three hundred of whom, utilizing flax ropes and makeshift pitons, managed to scale a sheer cliff up to the fortress in the dark of night? And can their line be repeated without aid?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/" rel="bookmark">Iliadics</a></h2>
<small>July 21, 2026 </small>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After Aristotle gifted Alexander (not yet ὁ Μέγας) a copy of the <em>Iliad</em> he had annotated and provided a critical recension for, the king is supposed to have carried it around all 11,000+ miles of his Asian campaign, sleeping with it under his pillow.*</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In 2020, in the midst of a 13,000-mile road trip of my own, having recently read or re-read E.V. Rieu’s exemplary prose translation of the <em>Iliad</em>, Christopher Logue’s <em>War Music</em>, a 12-page précis of the Trojan war by Apollodorus, Alice Oswald’s de-narrativized redaction, <em>Memorial</em>, and all four volumes of Eric Shanower’s lamentably abandoned <em>Age of Bronze</em>, I stumbled, unawares, into a clutch of egg-white rooms at the Philadelphia Museum of Art hung with Cy Twombly’s 1978 painting cycle, <em>Fifty Days at Iliam</em>. It dented my retinae.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Obviously, part of me is very into the idea of spending the rest of my life headfirst in rabbit holes, blackening one small notebook after another with idiosyncratic observations about Homeric esoterica. After watching Christopher Nolan’s <em>The Odyssey</em> twice this past weekend (wrapped in a shit-tortilla: a 3.25-hour director’s cut of Wolfgang Peterson’s <em>Troy</em> so execrable it took four days to finish), I got to thinking about just how many thousands of words I’ve already written about this stuff in recent years for those precious few of you who read Chamblissian.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The answer? Not nearly as many as I should have, or will. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I’ve been meaning to write about Twombly’s weird Iliadic decaptych ever since I took it in. And maybe I will one day. In the meantime, by way of paying down the vig on my debt to that future self, here are an initial ten thousand words (at the standard exchange rate of 1000:1 image): </p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4407" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/img_3755/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3755.jpeg" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1600457204","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"40","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3755" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3755.jpeg?w=3024" width="3024" height="4032" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3755.jpeg?w=3024" alt="" class="wp-image-4407" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3755.jpeg 3024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3755.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3755.jpeg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3755.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3755.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3755.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">“Fifty Days at Iliam: Shield of Achilles”</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4408" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/img_3756/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3756.jpeg" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1600457223","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"40","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3756" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3756.jpeg?w=3024" width="3024" height="4032" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3756.jpeg?w=3024" alt="" class="wp-image-4408" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3756.jpeg 3024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3756.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3756.jpeg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3756.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3756.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3756.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">“Fifty Days at Iliam: Heroes of the Achaeans”</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4410" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/img_3757/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3757.jpeg" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1600457233","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"32","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3757" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3757.jpeg?w=3024" loading="lazy" width="3024" height="4032" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3757.jpeg?w=3024" alt="" class="wp-image-4410" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3757.jpeg 3024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3757.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3757.jpeg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3757.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3757.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3757.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">“Fifty Days of Iliam: Vengeance of Achilles”</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4411" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/img_3758/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3758.jpeg" data-orig-size="4032,3024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1600457253","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"32","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3758" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3758.jpeg?w=4032" loading="lazy" width="4032" height="3024" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3758.jpeg?w=4032" alt="" class="wp-image-4411" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3758.jpeg?w=4032 4032w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3758.jpeg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3758.jpeg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3758.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3758.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3758.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">“Fifty Days at Iliam: Achaeans in Battle”</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4413" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/img_3759/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3759.jpeg" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1600457267","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"32","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3759" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3759.jpeg?w=3024" loading="lazy" width="3024" height="4032" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3759.jpeg?w=3024" alt="" class="wp-image-4413" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3759.jpeg 3024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3759.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3759.jpeg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3759.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3759.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3759.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">“Fifty Days at Iliam: The Fire that Consumes All Before It”</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4414" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/img_3760-2/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3760-2.jpeg" data-orig-size="4032,3024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1600457282","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"40","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3760 2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3760-2.jpeg?w=4032" loading="lazy" width="4032" height="3024" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3760-2.jpeg?w=4032" alt="" class="wp-image-4414" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3760-2.jpeg?w=4032 4032w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3760-2.jpeg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3760-2.jpeg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3760-2.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3760-2.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3760-2.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">“Fifty Days at Iliam: Shades of Achilles, Patroclus, and Hector”</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4415" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/img_3761/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3761.jpeg" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1600457296","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"25","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3761" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3761.jpeg?w=3024" loading="lazy" width="3024" height="4032" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3761.jpeg?w=3024" alt="" class="wp-image-4415" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3761.jpeg 3024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3761.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3761.jpeg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3761.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3761.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3761.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">“Fifty Days at Iliam: House of Priam”</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4416" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/img_3762/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3762.jpeg" data-orig-size="4032,3024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1600457312","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"25","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3762" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3762.jpeg?w=4032" loading="lazy" width="4032" height="3024" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3762.jpeg?w=4032" alt="" class="wp-image-4416" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3762.jpeg?w=4032 4032w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3762.jpeg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3762.jpeg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3762.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3762.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3762.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">“Fifty Days at Iliam: Ilians in Battle”</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4417" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/img_3763/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3763.jpeg" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1600457323","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"32","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3763" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3763.jpeg?w=3024" loading="lazy" width="3024" height="4032" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3763.jpeg?w=3024" alt="" class="wp-image-4417" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3763.jpeg 3024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3763.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3763.jpeg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3763.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3763.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3763.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">“Fifty Days at Iliam: Shades of Eternal Night”</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4418" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/iliadics/img_3764/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3764.jpeg" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1600457335","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.99","iso":"40","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3764" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3764.jpeg?w=3024" loading="lazy" width="3024" height="4032" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3764.jpeg?w=3024" alt="" class="wp-image-4418" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3764.jpeg 3024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3764.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3764.jpeg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3764.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3764.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_3764.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">“Fifty Days at Iliam: Heroes of the Ilians”</figcaption></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">*I sometimes wonder what became of this “casket copy” of the <em>Iliad</em> — so-called by Plutarch because it was supposed to have been transported from Persia to India and back in a bejeweled casket (or capsa, maybe) seized from Darius III. I like the idea that someone rescued the papyrus scrolls from destruction in 323 BC before Babylon and the rest of the left half of Asia were engulfed in fifty years of Alexander’s “funeral games” (aka <a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/it-wasnt-curiosity/">the Wars of the Diadochi</a>), and that they survived to the present day in Baghdad, from which they were looted by some Daesh douche who subsequently lost them (and his life) to a YPJ tank commander who afterward bequeathed her war trophy to the incipient Amara Library in Qamishlo, Rojava: <a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2021/12/14/war-queen-dispossessions/">Penthesilea’s revenge</a>. </p>
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<h2><a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/%ce%ba%cf%8d%ce%ba%ce%bb%cf%89%cf%88-%cf%83%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%bc%cf%8c%cf%82-%ce%ba%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%ac%ce%b2%ce%b1%cf%83%ce%b9%cf%82/" rel="bookmark">Κύκλωψ / σεισμός / κατάβασις</a></h2>
<small>May 22, 2026 </small>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4190" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/%ce%ba%cf%8d%ce%ba%ce%bb%cf%89%cf%88-%cf%83%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%bc%cf%8c%cf%82-%ce%ba%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%ac%ce%b2%ce%b1%cf%83%ce%b9%cf%82/img_1579/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_1579.jpeg" data-orig-size="4032,3024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 16 Pro","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1755539605","copyright":"","focal_length":"2.2200000286119","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.01010101010101","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_1579" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_1579.jpeg?w=4032" loading="lazy" width="4032" height="3024" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_1579.jpeg?w=4032" alt="" class="wp-image-4190" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_1579.jpeg?w=4032 4032w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_1579.jpeg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_1579.jpeg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_1579.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_1579.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_1579.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>From the Penguin Modern Classics edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses.</em></figcaption></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Just under halfway through <em>Ulysses</em> (page 447 in my edition), after Leopold Bloom skedaddles from Barney Kiernan’s in heated argument with the antisemite Citizen-cyclops (who is blind with rage), and gets a biscuit-tin-boulder hurled at him, and the ill-tempered Irish wolfhound Owen Garry (née “Garryowen”: “We’ll break windows, we’ll break doors, / the watch knock down by threes and fours…”) set in hot pursuit, Joyce describes the scene in superficially hyperbolic/seriocomic/symbolic terms of a catastrophic earthquake — e.g., as having completely flattened the part of Dublin where “all the lordly residences in the vicinity of the palace of justice” lay.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is interesting, inasmuch as that figurative earth-shaking — a discharge of verbal, physical, and social violence Bloom flees from the legal center of Dublin to the sea — largely severs the public narrative of the first half of the novel from the more private, sometimes phantasmagorically interior, chapters that follow. And it’s historically spicy, given the explicit comparison Joyce makes to a previous seismic event in 1534 — i.e., the onset of the quashed Silken Thomas Rebellion, which led directly to Henry VIII seizing control of Irish affairs to an unprecedented extent and installing himself as the newly made king of the island; thus planting a seed of the Citizen’s xenophobic animus which by 1904 was in full, uh, bloom.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But! The book is called <em>Ulysses</em>. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If the Citizen is a cyclops, then he is also a son of Poseidon “Earth-Shaker,” whom Tiresias warned Odysseus — on (or just beyond) the littoral of Hades — would vengefully block his passage home at every turn. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Given everything else Joyce threw into his Mulligan stew, we should probably also keep in mind the earthquake on the shore of Avernus (i.e., the footfall of Hecate approaching through the forest dark) that immediately preceded Aeneas rushing into the hellmouth after the Cumaean Sibyl. And the quake that rent the temple veil as Christ died on the cross (Matthew 27:51), prior to his own descent into hell to harrow it of the unsaved righteous (see: the <em>Gospel of Nicodemus</em>, etc.). </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And, of course, the ones in Dante’s <em>Comedy</em>:</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4204" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/%ce%ba%cf%8d%ce%ba%ce%bb%cf%89%cf%88-%cf%83%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%bc%cf%8c%cf%82-%ce%ba%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%ac%ce%b2%ce%b1%cf%83%ce%b9%cf%82/screenshot-2026-04-28-at-11-20-15-am/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/screenshot-2026-04-28-at-11.20.15-am.png" data-orig-size="1728,534" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="Screenshot 2026-04-28 at 11.20.15 AM" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/screenshot-2026-04-28-at-11.20.15-am.png?w=1728" loading="lazy" width="1728" height="534" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/screenshot-2026-04-28-at-11.20.15-am.png?w=1728" alt="" class="wp-image-4204" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/screenshot-2026-04-28-at-11.20.15-am.png 1728w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/screenshot-2026-04-28-at-11.20.15-am.png?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/screenshot-2026-04-28-at-11.20.15-am.png?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/screenshot-2026-04-28-at-11.20.15-am.png?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/screenshot-2026-04-28-at-11.20.15-am.png?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/screenshot-2026-04-28-at-11.20.15-am.png?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1728px) 100vw, 1728px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>(in Allen Mandelbaum’s translation)</em></figcaption></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Prior to Virgil’s wayfinding confoundment in Cantos XII (28-45) and XXIII (127-144) of <em>Inferno</em>, by structural damage done to hell during the Christquake of 33 AD — and to the shade of Statius explaining still another tremor that Dante and Virgil experience as they mountaineer up to the Eden-acme in <em>Purgatorio</em>, Canto XXI (34-72), in terms of how its geophysics relates to the metaphysics of Christian salvation — the first seismic event Dante describes in his <em>Comedy</em> occurs in <em>Inferno</em>, Canto III (130-136), as Virgil and Dante cross the Acheron. In line with a medieval theory dating at least as far back as Seneca, of seismicity being a consequence of subterranean airflow blockages, the quake is accompanied by a cyclone that erupts from the subterranean rock.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“From the reports of eyewitnesses it transpires that the seismic waves were accompanied by a violent atmospheric perturbation of cyclonic character,” Joyce wrote six hundred years later. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What I’m getting at: </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Although the sixth episode of <em>Ulysses</em> — in which Bloom and his acquaintances bury Paddy Dignam/Elpenor — is called “Hades,” it’s important to remember that in Joyce’s novel, as in <em>Hamlet</em>, “the time is out of joint.” The Bloomsday narrative has a chronological order (or, rather, a helical, frequently slippery, stair-stepping sequence of events), but its episodes also map conceptually, if sometimes obliquely, onto those of Homer’s <em>Odyssey</em>. Not always in the same order, however. By that, I mean neither in the order of the books of the <em>Odyssey</em>, nor that of events narrativized <em>within</em> those books — which, having begun <em>in medias res</em>, loop back repeatedly thereafter. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Of course, the episodes of <em>Ulysses</em> are also arranged in dialogue with multiple other texts, including Shakespeare’s play and Dante’s <em>Comedy</em> — in what often feels like a hyper-dimensional structure one can only ever grasp part of at any given moment; which could be what Joyce meant when he told Nabokov, “I may have over-systematized.” </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In any case, to whatever extent <em>Ulysses</em> may be said to include a katabasis, that part of its story begins with an earthquake — just like every other katabasis story to which Joyce refers throughout the novel. It’s only after the “seismic disturbance” in episode 12 that Bloom actually crosses the threshold into the underworld, I think. By episode 15, when he walks past the Nighttown “hellsgate,” he’s deep in. There’s a dog there too, which is described alternately as a spaniel, mastiff, and bulldog (or else there are three dogs; it isn’t clear) — c.f., the matter of Cerberus in <em>Odyssey</em>, Book XI (808-810); <em>Aeneid</em>, Book VI (416-425); and <em>Inferno</em>, Canto VI (13-33).</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And so forth, and so on.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4310" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/chamblissian-6a106ffa124bc/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chamblissian-6a106ffa124bc.png" data-orig-size="1413,736" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="mmi_table-elizabeth-sherrill" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chamblissian-6a106ffa124bc.png?w=1413" loading="lazy" width="1413" height="736" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chamblissian-6a106ffa124bc.png" alt="" class="wp-image-4310" title="mmi_table-elizabeth-sherrill" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chamblissian-6a106ffa124bc.png 1413w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chamblissian-6a106ffa124bc.png?w=128&h=67 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chamblissian-6a106ffa124bc.png?w=300&h=156 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chamblissian-6a106ffa124bc.png?w=768&h=400 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chamblissian-6a106ffa124bc.png?w=1024&h=533 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1413px) 100vw, 1413px" /></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Another curious detail on page 447: Joyce says the seismic incident, having “registered in all eleven shocks” at the observatory in Dunsink, was “all of the fifth grade of Mercalli’s scale.” Now, if you don’t have Mercalli’s whole scale committed to memory (for shame!), what Joyce meant is that it was only a moderate event; something pretty much everyone nearby would notice, and that might even do some damage, but probably <em>not</em> the sort of thing to flatten whole buildings. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It’s the “all of the fifth grade” part that snagged my eye, though. Specifically, the fact that during a grade-5 earthquake “Pendulum clocks may stop.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That’s exactly what happens. After the Cyclops encounter, temporality seems to be suspended, in an eerie continuous night that Bloom first enters into on Sandymount Strand. When Cissy Caffrey dashes over to ask him the time, his watch has unexpectedly stopped. So the girls keep track of the hour, indirectly, by the audible progress of a nearby Catholic mass: a distinction between sacred vs. profane time <a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/lecture-notes-on-the-geophysics-of-the-satanic-impact-event/">readers of Dante should be well acquainted with</a>. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The beach where Bloom — later in this same Nausicaa episode — jerks off to the sight of Gerty MacDowell watching the fireworks is also familiar (c.f., “…a wind that crackled with bloodred light, / a light that overcame all of my senses”), insofar as it resembles both the shore of Avernus and the near bank of the Acheron from which Aeneas and then Dante pilgrim (who swoons during the aforementioned earthquake, btw, and awakens on the other side of the river — prefiguring Bloom’s own <em>petite mort</em>?) cross over into Hades proper.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And does Bloom himself not subsequently enter a realm of infernal darkness — finding home again only by way of consultations with his ghosts? Doesn’t he harrow Nighttown and liberate Stephen Dedalus? Isn’t he an Aeneas, to whom the future founding of a great city (by immigrants fleeing from across the seas: “the new Bloomusalem in the Nova Hibernia of the future”) is revealed? Does he not play Virgil to Stephen’s Dante — and/or the part of another directive ghost, Hamlet king to Hamlet son?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In a word: yes. </p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4242" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/%ce%ba%cf%8d%ce%ba%ce%bb%cf%89%cf%88-%cf%83%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%bc%cf%8c%cf%82-%ce%ba%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%ac%ce%b2%ce%b1%cf%83%ce%b9%cf%82/cyclopshahnemuhle-german-etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cyclopshahnemuhle-german-etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm.jpg" data-orig-size="3618,2397" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D3100","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1637684459","copyright":"","focal_length":"24","iso":"1800","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="CyclopsHahnemuhle-German-Etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cyclopshahnemuhle-german-etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm.jpg?w=3618" loading="lazy" width="3618" height="2397" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cyclopshahnemuhle-german-etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm.jpg?w=3618" alt="" class="wp-image-4242" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cyclopshahnemuhle-german-etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm.jpg?w=3618 3618w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cyclopshahnemuhle-german-etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm.jpg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cyclopshahnemuhle-german-etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cyclopshahnemuhle-german-etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cyclopshahnemuhle-german-etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cyclopshahnemuhle-german-etching-310gsm-paper-90-x-60cm.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3618px) 100vw, 3618px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>“CYCLOPS” by Aidan Hickey.</em></figcaption></figure>
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<h2><a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/some-field-of-view-notes/" rel="bookmark">Some field (of view) notes</a></h2>
<small>May 15, 2026 </small>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4254" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/some-field-of-view-notes/img_4710-2/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4710-2.jpeg" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.78","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 16 Pro","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1778675022","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.7649998656528","iso":"3200","shutter_speed":"2","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_4710 2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4710-2.jpeg?w=3024" loading="lazy" width="3024" height="4032" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4710-2.jpeg?w=3024" alt="" class="wp-image-4254" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4710-2.jpeg 3024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4710-2.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4710-2.jpeg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4710-2.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4710-2.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4710-2.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Eric Sweet, trapped in the Negative Zone. Image inverted for legibility. </em></figcaption></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">1.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I want to produce a 3D scene out of camera obscura images. Which will be damn tricky to do, despite the fact that in photogrammetric camera resectioning <em>every </em>point in every image of which a 3D scene is composed gets parameterized in terms of an ideal camera obscura. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When I first proposed the idea — of feeding Structure from Motion algorithms with images from fixed, architecturally instantiated single-point perspectives — to my pal Myles Sutherland, I was thinking about it in terms of converting rooms in three Las Vegas hotels into camerae obscurae triangulated around a large street-level object to inform the 3D.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Myles pointed out that I could also do it with images from three windows of the same hotel. </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now, ideally, I’d like to minimize the amount of AI/ML-based interpolation that’s required, but I’m no artisanal photogrammetry hipster. So when, after finding the entrance to Airmen’s Cave — a 3,500-meter-long system of twisty little passages extending through the karst beneath one of Austin’s major roadways south of the (other) Colorado River — in the Barton Creek Greenbelt last Saturday, what first occurred to me, looking at it, is how much it appeared to be looking at <em>me</em>. And that by turning even just two of its three mouths into eyes, I should be able to produce a binocular, stereoscopic (i.e., 3D) image of the surrounding vegetation, or of a figure emplaced within it. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So Wednesday morning, Eric Sweet and I headed back out there for a quick and (very) dirty study — to see how easily I might light-seal the rock holes with Gorilla Tape and some cheap black plastic sheeting, and to test the field of view at different focal lengths inside the cave using a white drop cloth as a projection surface. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I wasn’t precious about it. Mostly, because I’m recuperating from a recent L4-L5 disc herniation, and too much spinal flexion is verboten. But also because the cave is full of soft-bodied ticks that will feed on you and drop off quickly enough you don’t even know you’ve been chomped on unless you fall ill later. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The whole cyclops set-up took us 5-10 minutes. Per the usual, it worked like a charm. Next stop: bins. </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">2.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To recap:</p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The camera obscura, reduced to its essentials: </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A dark enclosure. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An external light source. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A hole.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What a camera obscura enables is the formation of <a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/through-a-glass-darkly/">a real image</a> – from a fixed perspective, of whatever can be seen from a point in space – onto a projection surface. That fixed, single-point perspective is unique. And there should be, in theory, infinitely many of them. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you move the oculus of a camera obscura, you project a different image. And so one might also describe it in the following terms: any given fixed, single-point perspective is identical with the camera obscura (each of which can be defined based on singular extrinsic [position, pose] and intrinsic [focal length and lens distortion] parameters) that will enable its visual representation. Camera resectioning in photogrammetry – to facilitate the reconstruction of a 3D scene from 2D images of it – depends on this: the poses of the cameras that produced the 2D images are estimated based on the parameters of matrices of idealized camera obscuras corresponding to every point of those images. By which, it seems to me, the photogrammetrist (photogrammarian? photogrammatologian?) is simultaneously treating the camera obscura as a calculable abstraction, and the idea of space as a potentially infinite array of fixed-point cameras.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It’s worth considering whether the camera obscura is an apparatus that enables the visualization of a specific perspective, or if it is something more like an attribute of space infested with light: its perspectival <em>visualizability</em>, at every given point, in the context of certain necessary geometric organizations of the paths of light rays. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Both at once, probably. Every cart is part horse. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Here is a thing I love about the world: wherever it doesn’t occur naturally, it only takes a minimal reorganization of the geometry of whatever separates its zones of light and shadow to enable it to project images of itself upon its own surfaces. Images that are like the sorts of representations we produce of it, but are actually constituent of itself, contingent, and contemporaneous.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Reading Carlo Rovelli’s lovely little <em>The Order of Time</em> the other day, it occurred to me that on a planetary body, relative to that at any arbitrary set of spatial coordinates used to designate the location of a temporal standard, the rate of time’s passage will be uniquely different <a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2024/08/28/addendum-to-lecture-notes-on-the-geophysics-of-the-satanic-impact-event/">at every other point of the gravity field</a>. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A camera obscura therefore not only represents a single unique spatial perspective, but a unique <em>spatiotemporal</em> one.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Is fossilized evidence of such minute relativistic effects preserved — at some scale, atomic or subatomic — in the mud of a mineral’s crystal lattice, or are those lattices constantly being shaken apart and reformed, while remaining putatively ‘solid’, in ways that make forensic detection impracticable? </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">You may, dear reader, <em>mon semblable</em>, already know this, but photons transmitting color — which I was taught as a larval mad scientist retain certain wavelengths while others get absorbed whenever light reflects off the surface of an object — don’t actually bounce. Rather, they strike the object and excite it electronically, which causes new photons to be re-radiated (among other sorts of angled emanations) at the wavelengths of the original photon that the atomic/molecular configuration of the object-surface couldn’t easily ‘absorb’. Those wavelengths that <em>are</em> ‘absorbed’ produce heat. The excited configuration of the struck surface relaxes back into an equilibrium state as a phonon (a quantum of vibrational/sound energy) shakes the crystal lattice, or messier organic equivalent, like thermal wind in electrical chimes — raising its temperature minutely, but measurably, before the chromatic exhaust dissipates. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Where might relativistic progresses of time leave lasting evidential traces in this process, if anywhere (of anywhen), I wonder? And if such traces of gravity-field-point-specific time dilations do exist, how might one go about detecting them <em>chromatographically</em>? </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Stay tuned.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4290" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/some-field-of-view-notes/img_4689/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4689.jpeg" data-orig-size="4272,5712" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.78","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 16 Pro","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1778672003","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.7649998656528","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.000109998900011","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_4689" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4689.jpeg?w=4272" loading="lazy" width="4272" height="5712" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4689.jpeg?w=4272" alt="" class="wp-image-4290" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4689.jpeg?w=4272 4272w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4689.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4689.jpeg?w=224 224w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4689.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4689.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/img_4689.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px" /></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">3.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On the subject of fossilized temporalities, Eric spotted this beauty in the dry creek bed on the way in. For scale, he wears a size 13.</p>
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<small>April 30, 2026 </small>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4208" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/c-is-for-cheetah/484496362_18395607289103514_2148536973761069432_n/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/484496362_18395607289103514_2148536973761069432_n.jpg" data-orig-size="1173,1401" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="484496362_18395607289103514_2148536973761069432_n" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/484496362_18395607289103514_2148536973761069432_n.jpg?w=1173" loading="lazy" width="1173" height="1401" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/484496362_18395607289103514_2148536973761069432_n.jpg?w=1173" alt="" class="wp-image-4208" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/484496362_18395607289103514_2148536973761069432_n.jpg 1173w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/484496362_18395607289103514_2148536973761069432_n.jpg?w=80 80w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/484496362_18395607289103514_2148536973761069432_n.jpg?w=251 251w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/484496362_18395607289103514_2148536973761069432_n.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/484496362_18395607289103514_2148536973761069432_n.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1173px) 100vw, 1173px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Painting of a royal hunt by Liu Guandao, 1280 AD.</em></figcaption></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Around three o’clock this morning, reading “The Tiger’s Bride,” Angela Carter’s second, more heterodox take in <em>The Bloody Chambe</em>r on Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s “La Belle et la Bête,” her description of the Beast on horseback caused me to fall into a gauzy, opioid-insensitive (alas) Wikipedia reverie on pleasures pursued in 13th-century Xanadu (Shangdu), in which I learned, among a great many other things, that Kublai Khan and his kurultais, in addition to their menageries of other non-human hunting partners, sometimes galloped around with hooded, muzzled cheetahs (from among a population of a thousand such “leopardi” Marco Polo claimed to have seen on the grounds of the palace) trained to ride behind them until let slip to course deer.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Felid falconry.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/what-it-takes-to-make-a-mountain-man-leave-his-home/" rel="bookmark">what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home</a></h2>
<small>April 8, 2026 </small>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I’ve walked every mile of the Mississippi River from its headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In a sense. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I’ll get into that assertion another time. Suffice it to say, for now, that I learn with my feet. So once I got it into my brain cave to visit New Orleans for the first time (a couple of weeks after my <a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/">2016 Los Angeles River walk</a>), I decided to pick a distant starting point upriver and hoof the levee back to the city for the climax of Mardi Gras. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The weekend forecast called for forty miles of mud, but in my time I have chased trains at night, waving a whisky bottle, wearing nothing but unlaced boots and a cowboy hat. Even before I started having friends bury me alive, it wouldn’t have been the dirtiest I ever got. And so, with a half-filled hip flask, a Gerber fighting knife, and a copy of All the King’s Men in stow, I made my way from PDX to Louis Armstrong. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What I wrote about the river two days later, on the flight back:</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;white-space: normal">“</span>Friday night, I waded across Canal St., through the Knights of Hermes parade, into the French Quarter, to see what all the fuss is about. My maternal grandmother briefly attended a boarding school run by Ursuline nuns in New Orleans. While there, she, all of seventeen, stormed into the kitchen of Antoine’s (a restaurant that’s been operating since 1840) and browbeat the chef into divulging his secret gumbo recipe. For the rest of her life, she made it using his industrial proportions for ingredients, exactly as she copied them down: 5 lbs of this, 10 lbs of that, etc. I went there first, told the manager Charlie my tale, and sat down for a bowl of the gumbo. Good, but not as good as grandma used to make. Later, I saw a kid on Bourbon Street try to start a fight by pulling his pants & underwear down and walking purposefully at his opponent. Then a gal at a bar named Tanya (“I don’t look anything like Tanya Harding, do I?”) from San Diego explained to me that “there are no black people in Southern California.” So I figured it was time to split.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The next morning, after the worst breakfast I’ve ever been served in a restaurant, anywhere in the world, I grabbed a $75 taxi out to Norco (a town named, acronymically, for the New Orleans Refining Company). The friendly wheelman’s name was Gary. He asked me if I was an engineer. As it turns out, Gary was himself a retired oil pipeline engineer from Nigeria. He hated the cold – and so, naturally, had worked on petroleum infrastructure in arctic Canada, North Dakota, and Colorado most of his career, before relocating for a sizable (tax-resistant) income someplace warm. The idea of my walk blew his mind. He told me he used to run three miles a day, but “got lazy.” He still walks 10,000 steps daily around the airport taxi lot, along with several other cabbies I interacted with over the weekend – all of whom swore by their Fitbits. As we drove through the flooded spillway west of the city (“Alligators in there! And…what do you call those snakes, the really big ones that swallow you? Those too!” Note to self: don’t fuck with Louisiana pythons), he told me I’d inspired him to try walking the thirteen miles back to his house from the airport the next weekend. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As I got out, Garry wished me luck, and gave me the rest of his shortbread cookies.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I proceeded to walk 35 miles along the Mississippi River levee from the Valero St. Charles Refinery back to Huey Long’s old haunt, the Roosevelt Hotel. I saw all sorts of stuff along the way: Some guys sorting the last stage of analog-robot rubbish separation at the top of a clanking, wheezing trash mountain; a mass of gulls circling silently, bait balling a garbage heap like air orcas; tangles of pipes and towers vomiting flames; the cyclopean hulks of Shell’s Norco Manufacturing Complex and ADM-Growmark; hundreds of bunched crosses, like a garden choked with weeds, memorializing “the 3,062 babies aborted in America every hour”; an antebellum cotton plantation preserved as a tourist attraction; exotic flood control infrastructure; disheveled horses, black roosters, ibises, evidence of corvid sapience; barges, supertankers, and container ships (those latter-day riverboats) with names like African Kingfisher and Amazon Victory. And, all over <em>everything</em>, the smudged fingerprints of that dirty old pirate, Lafayette.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Things I did not see along the way: alligators, pythons, the homeless; or pretty much anyone else. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For lack of company, I sang to myself. The Louisiana state trooper who removed me from an Army Corps of Engineers construction site caught me in the middle of a spirited rendition of Led Zepplin’s “When the Levee Breaks,” complete with John Bonham-style air drumming. He was pretty nice about it, all things considered. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After detouring a few miles through Harahan, I was able to regain the river.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On the edge of Audubon Park, I quaffed a couple of beers at a po’ boy shack and decided to skip the last oxbow, making a beeline across the city along Carrollton for the Roosevelt instead. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After hosing off and re-dressing my feet, I plunged back into the Quarter. And oh, what a difference a day makes. The six blocks of Bourbon Street I navigated were like immersion therapy for haphephobia. Given the crush of flesh, a near-total absence of sobriety, and the potential for sexually, racially, or just semiotically motivated violence, people were remarkably well behaved; helpful, even, to those visibly worse off than themselves. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I kept expecting a stampede, or that someone would spill their “hand grenade” on me, or vomit on me, or drunkenly mistake me for the asshole their girlfriend ran off with and try to land a punch. Instead, it was a mostly genial, if appallingly gradual, push ENE around tiny islands of admiration for bared breasts, asses, abs. Felt sort of like groundwater recharging an aquifer. Only with, you know, more beads.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bead negotiation is fascinating, btw.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">By then, I was looking for High John the Conqueror root (aka Johnny Conqueroo). Not drugs. Hoodoo. It’s what Muddy Waters was talking about when he sang, “I think I’ll go down to that old Kansas Stew/and bring back my second cousin, that’s Little Johnny Cockaroo…” in “Mannish Boy.” He’s got another great song about it being part of his mojo bag, in which he keeps growling, “I’m gonna rub my root! I’m gonna rub my root!” I finally tracked some down, for a friend in England who’s a retired curse breaker and combat magician. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Later that night, I gathered gifts for two of the Guédé loas – Baron Samedi and Papa Ghede. Gifts, not offerings. I didn’t want anything in return from those cranky old spirits. Just trying to be a good guest.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sunday morning, as the horror floats were evacuated under police escort, I paid visits to a pair of Southern gothic cemeteries – St. Louis no. 1 (where Marie Laveau is interred, and Nicholas Cage has staked out a tomb for himself) and Lafayette no. 1 (where Anne Rice once had herself wheeled inside a glass-top coffin in a mock funeral procession) – carrying two unremarkable-looking brown paper bags. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I left my gifts on the western thresholds. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Between the necropoleis, I walked more of the river, croaking John Lee Hooker’s “I Cover the Waterfront,” exploring an abandoned power station and unpeopled parts of the port, until six of New Orleans’ finest rocked up on their motorcycles with sirens wailing. Satisfying himself that I was probably harmless, the lead cop, a huge African American guy in mirrored aviator shades, said (with surprising patience), “Brother, you gotta get out of here.” </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And so I did, before any of them wanted to have a look in the paper bag. “What the heck are <em>those</em> for?!” I imagined one of them asking. “Psychopomp and circumstance,” I was ready to answer.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I spent some time inside Lafayette no. 1 under a magnolia tree with a cawing crow for company. Even its walls were made of bodies. Experienced my usual pareidolia in there: seeing skulls where they weren’t, &c. Then caught a cab back to the hotel with just enough time for some Popeye’s chicken. Drug deals went down on either side of my narrow table. Debts were forgiven. Violence was intimated. All in about twenty minutes. The density of unspoken communication going on in that place reminded me of The Dosadi Experiment. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Anyhow, that was that. I cabbed back to the airport past the big pink billboard for Larry Flynt’s Barely Legal Club once last time, and flew home.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They’ve caged (but not tamed) the mighty Mississippi. As a consequence of that, and riverbed engineering to support the petroleum industry, Louisiana is drowning at the rate of a football field of land per hour. Meanwhile, the cultural alluvium of New Orleans has been – is being – laid down in thick deposits. It’s a “place stained with time,” to borrow a phrase from Mark Fisher. I saw traces of slavery, piracy, gambling, Dixieland, hoodoo, voodoo, (erased, displaced, replaced) tribes of Native Americans, the French, the Spanish, Creoles, Caribbean flava, Buffalo soldiers, the Union navy, the Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA, highly evolved LGBT cultures, “Dirty South” hip hop, cotton, oil, drugs, Katrina, and much besides. I couldn’t do the place justice, and won’t bother trying. I will say this much: if I ever do come back for Mardi Gras, it will be to see how it’s celebrated in neighborhoods outside the French Quarter (i.e., the anthrobroscene). </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Also, I’m giving up machismo for Lent.”</p>
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<h2><a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/" rel="bookmark">The river is everywhere.</a></h2>
<small>April 6, 2026 </small>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="3998" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/attachment/10153798634207980/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153798634207980.jpg" data-orig-size="843,843" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="10153798634207980" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153798634207980.jpg?w=843" loading="lazy" width="843" height="843" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153798634207980.jpg?w=843" alt="" class="wp-image-3998" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153798634207980.jpg 843w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153798634207980.jpg?w=96 96w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153798634207980.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153798634207980.jpg?w=768 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Geoff Manaugh, from our hike south of the 6th Street Viaduct in August, 2015. </em></figcaption></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Difficult to believe it’s been a decade since Brad Garrett, Deb Chachra, Adam Rothstein, and I walked all fifty-one miles (plus a few ambulatory digressions) of the Los Angeles River from Canoga Park to the Port of Long Beach.*</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Owing to unusually heavy precipitation in the week leading up to our journey, the river was in spate. Facebook messages flew fast and furiously:</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Some of you may have heard about the rain we’re getting. Let’s put it this way: The river has an average daily discharge of 320 cubic feet per second. Yesterday, it peaked at 31,132 CFS. So if you tune into CNN Saturday night and see footage of two idiots riding a flash flood through Compton in a hand-pump raft with street signs for paddles, think well of us. And Stacey, remember: half for you, half for my godchild. Take what you want from my storage locker and burn the rest.</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">and</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Escapability from the river varies. The amount of water currently emptying through it, to which a wet Saturday will add, is impressive. Earlier this week, there was talk of a breach. Folks living in the culvert were evacuated. It hasn’t flooded its banks (yet), but we won’t be able to safely sleep in the drains, which was the original plan. We won’t even be able to walk inside the culvert the whole way. Fortunately, there are trails alongside some sections of the river. As for the rest of it, we’ll have to play it by ear.</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">and</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>None of us wants to go out by drowning in the LA River. Too absurd. We’ll give the thing — and the city around it — all due respect.</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">and so on.</p>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4012" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/iajb1388-1/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/iajb1388-1.jpg" data-orig-size="3120,4160" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"OnePlus One","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1452227381","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.79","iso":"1500","shutter_speed":"0.1","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IAJB1388 (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/iajb1388-1.jpg?w=3120" loading="lazy" width="3120" height="4160" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/iajb1388-1.jpg?w=3120" alt="" class="wp-image-4012" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/iajb1388-1.jpg 3120w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/iajb1388-1.jpg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/iajb1388-1.jpg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/iajb1388-1.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/iajb1388-1.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/iajb1388-1.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3120px) 100vw, 3120px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photograph by Adam Rothstein, in our motel room, the night before we set off.</em></figcaption></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Fortunately, the weather stabilized, the river disgorged its excess, and that was mostly that. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mostly. Approaching Vernon (aka Vinci in the unwatchable second season of True Detective: an ‘Exclusively Industrial’ city five miles from downtown Los Angeles, population 112; so corrupt, it teeters perpetually on the brink of disincorporation) 2/3rds into our walk, it began to rain, and the concrete culvert that channelizes the river — the slope of which, we’d failed to notice, had risen up from a moderate 35º into a rectilinear slot canyon with featureless walls eighteen feet tall — began to fill with alarming rapidity. As Deb and Adam splashed ahead in quickening calf-deep water, Brad and I lingered for a moment to hatch an escape plan, should one become necessary. “This isn’t the dumbest thing I’ve ever done, but it’s getting there,” I grinned. He grinned back. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It all turned out fine. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Brad and I once discussed co-authoring a book about our various riparian adventures together, but life flows too quickly to dam it up and put it to work like that. At this point, what remains of the walk, as with so many of my other escapades in that period, amounts to a fistful of photographs (most of them taken by somebody else), some highly specific place knowledge of semi-legal provenance, and a mindhoard of still-vivid, if now somewhat tattered, recollections. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Well, all that, and a powerful urge to spend more time with dear friends than I’ve managed to in recent years. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In this instance, a set of kaleidoscopic notes — jotted down on the backs of bar napkins a few days afterward — have also survived time’s bonfire of inanities:</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>As Hesse put it in Siddhartha: The river is everywhere. Stevie Nicks singing, “When the rain washes you clean you’ll know, you’ll know…” as I drove into the city. Jumping a locked gate in the pre-dawn hush on Friday — and then every other fence we encountered before hitting Universal City security. Fake trees disguising telco infrastructure: palm, pine, and eucalyptus. Mantling a stone wall to get a better look at Starfleet Academy. An empty parking lot beneath which, until quite recently, 18 nuclear missiles were siloed. Drinking whiskeys old enough to legally drink themselves. Will Self’s unexpected cameo at the Ace Hotel before a tray of room service champagne and our addled realization that all the records we liked best we had played at the wrong speed. Being guided through the ephemera of Bowtie Parcel by local artists with a powerfully strong sense of place. Buckaroo Bonzai’s logo on a warehouse. Deb explaining ’emotional labor’ to me as I peed upon a locked public restroom in a park. Being asked by an Uber driver if we were bank robbers. Dawn on the rooftop of an abandoned building in Downey. The privilege of observing nature with an engineer whose mind moves at 200 mph. Adam’s heavily annotated Thomas Guide, his impeccable route finding, his Benjamin quip, and his savage sentences re: Griffith J. Griffith. A mysterious government pickup truck, laden with chopped wood, driving at speed through the river. Bridge graff of a shadow coyote pack annotated: “Fuck the other side.” The guy in bright red leathers popping a wheelie on his motorcycle, tearing hell down the bike path toward Long Beach. The guy who had lashed his gear, and himself, into the girders beneath a bridge with a web of cables. The guy in an electric wheelchair who drove against traffic with three leashed pugs mushing ahead of him, blasting a tiny radio, then hopping up to walk into the liquor store. The old guy with the wispy Fu Manchu, ponytail, and sailor’s cap who shouted, “Close that FUCKING door!” at us, then went back to contemplating his horchata, statue-like. The peregrine falcon that rifled out at me from the bushes. The corkscrew staircase between I-5 and the 110 at the confluence of Arroyo Seco and the river. A decapitated Mickey Mouse, its body twisted at the bottom of a cliff, as downtown LA came into clear view. Going garbage Tarzan on Trash Island. Swinging on the Tree of Woe in a pasture behind Disney’s animation studio. Talk of indigenous lizard people. Horse favelas. All of the amazing readings en route — but especially when a flock of birds circled overhead, ominously, as Harriet Hawkins read via Skype from and about Lewis MacAdams; and how Lucy Lippard’s passage in Undermining about Spiral Jetty dissolved into whorls of razor wire separating Compton from the river. Brad recovering his balance after slipping on bird shit in a no-fall situation. The swaying, rusted catwalk we both ventured out onto. Ceremonies at the Mulholland fountain: a water offering, sigils, the naming of names. And a last group photograph, snapped by a bearded fisherwoman with the Queen Mary behind us. Beyond that, the Astronaut archipelago trailed off into the Pacific like an ellipsis. The rest was silence. </em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It wasn’t perfect. Brad was injured throughout. Adam got hurt. Despite lugging a heavy, 30-year-old raft >50 miles, we never put it into the water. Despite carrying full kit, and discovering ideal bivvy sites both nights, we didn’t camp. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But we did wade into the river beyond the 6th Street Viaduct at dusk and slosh it for miles through a concrete box canyon in a drizzling rain on the phase boundary of real danger. And we traversed the concrete desert south of Vernon, with commercial logistics operating on both sides of us, relentlessly, under sodium lights, in supernal silence. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Unstable memories of the journey are already starting to decay, irradiating my insomnia. But that night, at least, will have a half-life like U-238.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A few snapshots for visual reference:</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4090" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/img_20160108_062048/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_20160108_062048.jpg" data-orig-size="3120,4160" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"OnePlus One","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1039348800","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.79","iso":"3900","shutter_speed":"0.1","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_20160108_062048" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_20160108_062048.jpg?w=3120" loading="lazy" width="3120" height="4160" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_20160108_062048.jpg?w=3120" alt="" class="wp-image-4090" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_20160108_062048.jpg 3120w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_20160108_062048.jpg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_20160108_062048.jpg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_20160108_062048.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_20160108_062048.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_20160108_062048.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3120px) 100vw, 3120px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Adam Rothstein.</em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4035" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/img_4018-1/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4018-1.jpg" data-orig-size="2448,3264" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1452351772","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.12","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.025","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_4018 (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4018-1.jpg?w=2448" loading="lazy" width="2448" height="3264" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4018-1.jpg?w=2448" alt="" class="wp-image-4035" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4018-1.jpg 2448w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4018-1.jpg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4018-1.jpg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4018-1.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4018-1.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4018-1.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Not for us, it wasn’t.</em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4055" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/12545249_548887351941006_1132736573_n_17846495032066946/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12545249_548887351941006_1132736573_n_17846495032066946.jpg" data-orig-size="1080,1080" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="12545249_548887351941006_1132736573_n_17846495032066946" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12545249_548887351941006_1132736573_n_17846495032066946.jpg?w=1080" loading="lazy" width="1080" height="1080" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12545249_548887351941006_1132736573_n_17846495032066946.jpg?w=1080" alt="" class="wp-image-4055" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12545249_548887351941006_1132736573_n_17846495032066946.jpg 1080w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12545249_548887351941006_1132736573_n_17846495032066946.jpg?w=96 96w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12545249_548887351941006_1132736573_n_17846495032066946.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12545249_548887351941006_1132736573_n_17846495032066946.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12545249_548887351941006_1132736573_n_17846495032066946.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>N.B., the ersatz coconut.</em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4093" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/la-river-walk-rwc-and-bg-jan-2016/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-walk-rwc-and-bg-jan-2016.jpg" data-orig-size="1280,1280" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="LA River Walk RWC and BG Jan 2016" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-walk-rwc-and-bg-jan-2016.jpg?w=1280" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1280" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-walk-rwc-and-bg-jan-2016.jpg?w=1280" alt="" class="wp-image-4093" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-walk-rwc-and-bg-jan-2016.jpg 1280w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-walk-rwc-and-bg-jan-2016.jpg?w=96 96w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-walk-rwc-and-bg-jan-2016.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-walk-rwc-and-bg-jan-2016.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-walk-rwc-and-bg-jan-2016.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Deb Chachra.</em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4027" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/img_4104-2/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4104-2.jpg" data-orig-size="1341,1791" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1452383572","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.12","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.0054347826086957","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_4104 2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4104-2.jpg?w=1341" loading="lazy" width="1341" height="1791" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4104-2.jpg?w=1341" alt="" class="wp-image-4027" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4104-2.jpg 1341w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4104-2.jpg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4104-2.jpg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4104-2.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4104-2.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1341px) 100vw, 1341px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Brad Garrett of Deb, like a boss (detail).</em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4044" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/12534069_498221213699368_275179820_n_17844746311077931/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12534069_498221213699368_275179820_n_17844746311077931.jpg" data-orig-size="1080,1080" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="12534069_498221213699368_275179820_n_17844746311077931" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12534069_498221213699368_275179820_n_17844746311077931.jpg?w=1080" loading="lazy" width="1080" height="1080" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12534069_498221213699368_275179820_n_17844746311077931.jpg?w=1080" alt="" class="wp-image-4044" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12534069_498221213699368_275179820_n_17844746311077931.jpg 1080w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12534069_498221213699368_275179820_n_17844746311077931.jpg?w=96 96w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12534069_498221213699368_275179820_n_17844746311077931.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12534069_498221213699368_275179820_n_17844746311077931.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12534069_498221213699368_275179820_n_17844746311077931.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Brad had just badly injured his lower back, and was gobbling Percocets like Tic Tacs. </em></figcaption></figure>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4033" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/img_3971/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3971.jpg" data-orig-size="2448,3264" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1452272489","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.12","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.0019569471624266","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3971" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3971.jpg?w=2448" loading="lazy" width="2448" height="3264" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3971.jpg?w=2448" alt="" class="wp-image-4033" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3971.jpg 2448w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3971.jpg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3971.jpg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3971.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3971.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3971.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Adam’s route finding was superb, but he did lose an achilles tendon somewhere along the way. Finished anyway. A tough S.O.B.</em> </figcaption></figure>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4095" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/la-river-snake-ride/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-snake-ride.jpg" data-orig-size="2400,1800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"","camera":"COOLPIX AW130","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1452263959","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.3","iso":"125","shutter_speed":"0.002","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="LA River Snake Ride" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-snake-ride.jpg?w=2400" loading="lazy" width="2400" height="1800" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-snake-ride.jpg?w=2400" alt="" class="wp-image-4095" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-snake-ride.jpg 2400w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-snake-ride.jpg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-snake-ride.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-snake-ride.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-snake-ride.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/la-river-snake-ride.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Deb Chachra.</em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4097" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/dscn0190/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0190.jpg" data-orig-size="2400,2400" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.1","credit":"","camera":"COOLPIX AW130","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1452263760","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.3","iso":"125","shutter_speed":"0.001","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="DSCN0190" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0190.jpg?w=2400" loading="lazy" width="2400" height="2400" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0190.jpg?w=2400" alt="" class="wp-image-4097" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0190.jpg 2400w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0190.jpg?w=96 96w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0190.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0190.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0190.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0190.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Brad Garrett.</em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4100" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/dscn0127-2/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0127-1.jpg" data-orig-size="2400,1800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"","camera":"COOLPIX AW130","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1452242174","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.3","iso":"125","shutter_speed":"0.001","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="DSCN0127" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0127-1.jpg?w=2400" loading="lazy" width="2400" height="1800" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0127-1.jpg?w=2400" alt="" class="wp-image-4100" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0127-1.jpg 2400w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0127-1.jpg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0127-1.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0127-1.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0127-1.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/dscn0127-1.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Brad Garrett.</em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4046" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/12558389_193364811014877_1986597815_n_17852824978025372/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12558389_193364811014877_1986597815_n_17852824978025372.jpg" data-orig-size="1080,1080" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="12558389_193364811014877_1986597815_n_17852824978025372" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12558389_193364811014877_1986597815_n_17852824978025372.jpg?w=1080" loading="lazy" width="1080" height="1080" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12558389_193364811014877_1986597815_n_17852824978025372.jpg?w=1080" alt="" class="wp-image-4046" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12558389_193364811014877_1986597815_n_17852824978025372.jpg 1080w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12558389_193364811014877_1986597815_n_17852824978025372.jpg?w=96 96w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12558389_193364811014877_1986597815_n_17852824978025372.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12558389_193364811014877_1986597815_n_17852824978025372.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12558389_193364811014877_1986597815_n_17852824978025372.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>From atop the spiral staircase between I-5 and the 110, near the confluence of the Los Angeles River and Arroyo Seco.</em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4005" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/img_4109/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4109.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2448" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1452384297","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.12","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.0037878787878788","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_4109" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4109.jpg?w=3264" loading="lazy" width="3264" height="2448" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4109.jpg?w=3264" alt="" class="wp-image-4005" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4109.jpg?w=3264 3264w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4109.jpg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4109.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4109.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4109.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4109.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px" /></figure>
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<figure class="alignleft size-large"><img data-attachment-id="3999" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/attachment/10153813487157980/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153813487157980.jpg" data-orig-size="800,600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="10153813487157980" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153813487157980.jpg?w=800" loading="lazy" width="800" height="600" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153813487157980.jpg?w=800" alt="" class="wp-image-3999" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153813487157980.jpg 800w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153813487157980.jpg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153813487157980.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10153813487157980.jpg?w=768 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Adam Rothstein. Some people interact differently with architecture than other people do.</em></figcaption></figure>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4051" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/1169108_851033591672444_1895163526_n_17852745253036792-2/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1169108_851033591672444_1895163526_n_17852745253036792-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1080,1080" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="1169108_851033591672444_1895163526_n_17852745253036792" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1169108_851033591672444_1895163526_n_17852745253036792-1.jpg?w=1080" loading="lazy" width="1080" height="1080" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1169108_851033591672444_1895163526_n_17852745253036792-1.jpg?w=1080" alt="" class="wp-image-4051" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1169108_851033591672444_1895163526_n_17852745253036792-1.jpg 1080w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1169108_851033591672444_1895163526_n_17852745253036792-1.jpg?w=96 96w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1169108_851033591672444_1895163526_n_17852745253036792-1.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1169108_851033591672444_1895163526_n_17852745253036792-1.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1169108_851033591672444_1895163526_n_17852745253036792-1.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px" /></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4002" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/img_4120/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4120.jpg" data-orig-size="2448,3264" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1452387449","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.12","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_4120" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4120.jpg?w=2448" loading="lazy" width="2448" height="3264" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4120.jpg?w=2448" alt="" class="wp-image-4002" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4120.jpg 2448w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4120.jpg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4120.jpg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4120.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4120.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4120.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Vernon isn’t just corrupt. It’s like a Petri dish for the city council to experiment with various species of corruption. </em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4004" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/img_4015/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4015.jpg" data-orig-size="2448,3264" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1452351618","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.12","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.0083333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_4015" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4015.jpg?w=2448" loading="lazy" width="2448" height="3264" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4015.jpg?w=2448" alt="" class="wp-image-4004" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4015.jpg 2448w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4015.jpg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4015.jpg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4015.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4015.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_4015.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px" /></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">— </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">*I set off on this river trek less than forty-eight hours after a single-push hike up San Jacinto Peak — the biggest gain (10,400 vertical feet over 17 linear miles) on any mountain in the continental United States — with friends Jared Rogers, Jay Owens, and Ryan Whitehead to celebrate the odometer flip into 2016. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We, I, used to go somewhat harder back then. Perhaps I will again someday. After all, one need not go fast to go hard. </p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4025" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/attachment/10154381683297980/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10154381683297980.jpg" data-orig-size="843,1124" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="10154381683297980" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10154381683297980.jpg?w=843" loading="lazy" width="843" height="1124" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10154381683297980.jpg?w=843" alt="" class="wp-image-4025" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10154381683297980.jpg 843w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10154381683297980.jpg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10154381683297980.jpg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10154381683297980.jpg?w=768 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Jay Owens. </em></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="4036" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/the-river-is-everywhere/img_3922-1/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3922-1.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2448" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1451745619","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.12","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.0083333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_3922 (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3922-1.jpg?w=3264" loading="lazy" width="3264" height="2448" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3922-1.jpg?w=3264" alt="" class="wp-image-4036" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3922-1.jpg?w=3264 3264w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3922-1.jpg?w=128 128w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3922-1.jpg?w=300 300w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3922-1.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3922-1.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_3922-1.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px" /></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On the occasion, I wrote that “Jared and I have caught more sunrises together on the flanks of mountains than I can easily count on my fingers & toes. Jay and I saw a pretty good one this past summer, as we did sun salutations with Brad down at Badwater. Ryan and I watched one detonate over the gorge that cradled our species from the summit of Kilimanjaro. And another atomize the night surrounding Mt. Rainier. Estimate the years you have left. Tally up the days. Watch as many of those suns rise as you can. After the last one, it’s an endless dark.”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Westron wynde when wyll thow blow</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>the smalle rayne downe can Rayne</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Cryst yf my love were in my Armys</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>And I yn my bed Agayne.</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Photograph by Robert Macfarlane. Footage by Rob Petit. </p>
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<h2><a href="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/god-sleeps-in-the-minerals/" rel="bookmark">God sleeps in the minerals</a></h2>
<small>March 3, 2026 </small>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I took this snapshot, and the rest of them, at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s Unearthed: Raw Beauty exhibition yesterday. Enjoy. </p>
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<small>January 27, 2026 </small>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then he put spurs to Gringolet, and espying the track,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">thrust in along a bank by a thicket’s border,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">rode down the rough brae right to the valley;</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">and then he gazed all about: a grim place he thought it,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">and saw no sign of shelter on any side at all,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">only high hillsides sheer upon either hand,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">and notched knuckled crags with gnarled boulders;</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">the very skies by the peaks were scraped, it appeared.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then he halted and held his horse for the time,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">and changed oft his front the Chapel to find.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Such on no side he saw, as seemed to him strange,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">save a mound as it might be near the marge of a green,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">a worn barrow on a brae by the brink of a water,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">beside falls in a flood that was flowing down; </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">the burn bubbled therein, as if boiling it were.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He urged on his horse then, and came up to the mound,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">there lightly alit, and lashed to a tree</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">his reins, with a rough branch rightly secured them.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then he went to the barrow and about it he walked,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">debating in his mind what might the thing be.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It had a hole at the end and at either side, </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">and with grass in green patches was grown all over,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">and was all hollow within: nought but an old cavern,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">or a cleft in an old crag; he could not it name</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> aright.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> ‘Can this be the Chapel Green,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> O Lord?’ said the gentle knight.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> ‘Here the Devil might say, I ween,</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> his matins about midnight!’</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">From <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>, in J. R. R. Tolkien’s translation.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Having lost my head last autumn, I chose to December in Britain — wet and weltering near the wellspring of many recent troubles — to see if, and, if so, how, I might begin to mend myself.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As part of that process, I set forth from London on the fifth of the month in the company of my stalwart friend Rob Petit, each of us content to braid a quest the other had set himself upon with his own. Rob’s is his tale to tell, but it involved a sheela na gig chosen blindly by a witch in the West Country: a magickal rebuke of mass femicide, a hillside halved, a bloodied power drill, and a grown man leaping, and then leaping again, from a tall tined tree at night in the rain.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As for my own undertaking, I wanted to make for the Dark Peak, twixt Buxton and Leek, in search of the vegetable chapel Sir Gawain is said to have sought for across a white wilderness in the lich-months; where he proffered his neck, after a year’s reprieve, to receive a fateful bargain-blow from an axe of golden green.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These being proper quests, there was — coming and going — wild weather, and wyrdness witnessed, and adventure had. By way of a rabbit hole beneath an old oak in the private woods of a Shropshire manor, we probed the possibility of a ritual sanctum left by fugitive Templars gone — figuratively and literally — underground. Following Matthew Hopkins’ spoor across East Anglia, we arrived at the awful climax of The Witchfinder General, where that crooked man walked his crooked mile. We stopped short at the threshold of the most haunted house in England, then stepped over. Squatted among hundreds of apotropaic marks in a cave under Sherwood Forest. Spotted porcine Upper Paleolithic rock art. Met the Ape of Thoth.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Philologians have reasons to believe, based on particularities of the dialect of Middle English in which “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” was written (presuming it wasn’t a performed voice entirely other than the poet’s own — which is presumptuous indeed), that the anonymous 14th-century “Gawain Poet” came from somewhere in a Venn overlap of what is now NW Staffordshire, SE Cheshire, and NE Shropshire, and possessed specific topographic knowledge of the region. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As with Eratosthenes, et al. arguing about how best to situate the plot of Homer’s <em>Odyssey</em> geographically (an ancient hobbyhorse which, by the 3rd century BC, arguably evolved into the discipline of “Geography” <em>per se</em>), or generations of 19th and 20th-century Italian archaeologists mapping the first 268 lines of <em>Aeneid</em> Book VI onto the topography of the Campi Flegrei, there have been recent attempts to associate the vicissitudes of Gawain’s journey with sites in the Peaks: a current (however weak) of contemporary literary geography that Rob and I — embodied researchers each, in our ways — were keen to welly into.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There were three candidate cavities we meant to investigate in our search for the Green Chapel. On a black night in pissing rain, bramble-lashed and turned about, tromping mud steeps above the Manifold Way, we satisfied ourselves that neither Wetton Mill Cave nor Thor’s Cave was it.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Which left Lud’s Church.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sometime after the Pleistocene, in the vicinity of Gradbach, this chasm was opened by a mass-wasting event in which a hundred-meter section of highly faulted Roaches Grit slipped, and then slid down the Goyt Syncline into the valley below, exposing a snaky slot of sandstone stacked at block angles to a depth of eighteen meters: sheernesses gone green with dappled lichens, ferns, bryophytes of several species.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hiking up to it in the mist, along Back-Forested switchbacks, the apophatic scar remains invisible. You’d have to know it was(n’t) there to want to keep climbing. Even the entrance is hidden by a perspectival trick of the rocks until you’re right in front of it. By the time I could see Lud’s Church, I was inside it. In that moment, I was convinced that this enormous emerald illustration of Euclid’s fifth postulate was the place I’d been seeking.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And yet. And yet.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Here were the “high hillsides sheer upon either hand”; here, the “notched knuckled crags with gnarled boulders” that scraped sky. But where was the “mound…near the marge of a green”? Where the barrow Gawain walked about, “debating in his mind what might the thing be. It had a hole at the end and at either side, and with grass in green patches was grown all over, and was all hollow within: nought but an old cavern, or a cleft in an old crag.” Where, in short, was the chapel itself: my green thought in all this green shade?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We looked until we’d convinced ourselves that, sometime in the last seven centuries, entropy (whether the scat of erosion, iconoclasm, or some other disorganizing process) must have supplanted, re-planted, structure; if the Green Chapel ever <em>had</em> existed outside the poem.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then I looked up. </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I’d backed into a canyon-high dihedral as we were leaving, and craned my neck to gawp skyward. Something about my pose, the light, reminded Rob of a photograph he had once taken of his brother Louis, and he asked if I’d stand still long enough for him to take another to match it. Paused there, peering up at what our friend Robert Macfarlane later described as a “greasy Jenga-stack,” I proffered a somewhat predictable opinion: </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“It looks climbable.” </p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="3771" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/the-green-chapel/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-05-18-34-2/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-05.18.34-2.jpeg" data-orig-size="1200,1600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="WhatsApp Image 2025-12-08 at 05.18.34 (2)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-05.18.34-2.jpeg?w=1200" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="1600" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-05.18.34-2.jpeg?w=1200" alt="" class="wp-image-3771" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-05.18.34-2.jpeg 1200w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-05.18.34-2.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-05.18.34-2.jpeg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-05.18.34-2.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-05.18.34-2.jpeg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Rob Petit.</em></figcaption></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rob agreed. He also agreed it would be incredibly foolish for either of us to break a leg, or worse, so far from the car, out there in the boondocks. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I’ll just have a <em>try</em>, just to see,” he explained, as I positioned myself to better spot his fall.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As Rob ascended, he slipped behind a protruding boulder and disappeared, into a declivity we hadn’t realized was there, obscured as it is by another trick of perspective. When he finally cried out, “WAYNE! Get up here!” it was in an oddly distant voice. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“What is it?” I yelled back. No reply. </p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="3779" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/the-green-chapel/img_2919/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_2919.jpeg" data-orig-size="4272,5712" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.78","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 16 Pro","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1765104801","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.7649998656528","iso":"1000","shutter_speed":"0.026315789473684","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="IMG_2919" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_2919.jpeg?w=4272" loading="lazy" width="4272" height="5712" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_2919.jpeg?w=4272" alt="" class="wp-image-3779" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_2919.jpeg?w=4272 4272w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_2919.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_2919.jpeg?w=224 224w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_2919.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_2919.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_2919.jpeg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px" /></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So I climbed after him. </p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="3774" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/the-green-chapel/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-09-06-27/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-09.06.27.jpeg" data-orig-size="1200,1600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="WhatsApp Image 2025-12-08 at 09.06.27" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-09.06.27.jpeg?w=1200" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="1600" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-09.06.27.jpeg?w=1200" alt="" class="wp-image-3774" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-09.06.27.jpeg 1200w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-09.06.27.jpeg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-09.06.27.jpeg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-09.06.27.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/whatsapp-image-2025-12-08-at-09.06.27.jpeg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Rob Petit, our second time up.</em></figcaption></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And I too saw what was hidden up there in the cleft of the crag.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="3775" data-permalink="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/the-green-chapel/f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6/" data-orig-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6.jpg" data-orig-size="1536,2048" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6.jpg?w=1536" loading="lazy" width="1536" height="2048" src="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6.jpg?w=1536" alt="" class="wp-image-3775" srcset="https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6.jpg 1536w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6.jpg?w=72 72w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6.jpg?w=225 225w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6.jpg?w=768 768w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/f800ba37-c130-4d1a-8287-7ccc925d84d6.jpg?w=1440 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Rob Petit.</em></figcaption></figure>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It was a quest fulfilled. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Who knows how long it’s been since someone was idiotic enough to have scaled the cliff and re-discovered the “chapel”. There weren’t any obvious human traces; and the vegetation, which can preserve evidence of passage for years, decades even, appeared undisturbed. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Whatever else I might write about what we found, I’d rather just say it with my face:</p>
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<iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='382' height='675' src='https://video.wordpress.com/embed/ZlSSEldT?cover=1&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=1&hd=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent="true" allow='clipboard-write; presentation' ></iframe><script src='https://v0.wordpress.com/js/next/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'></script>
</div><figcaption><em>Video by Rob Petit.</em></figcaption></figure>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And this: it was restorative. Thanks, Rob. </p>
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