The leather should then be sumacked in a drum or paddle vat. … In a paddle vat, sumac the leather two to three hours. Keep it in motion and warm up the liquor when it gets too cool. After sumacking rinse the leather in lukewarm water, and a nice russet is the result, ready for colors or russet.

Here grows a rare thing — the sword-leaf White Helleborine; and the 'Bee' and 'Fly' orchises in their season, and the commoner Columbine, each of whose pendent blossoms resembles five culvers clinging round the rim of a nest: doves varying in hue from the 'blue rock' to the milk-white pouter — there is something peculiarly archaic in the sculpturing of the lineaments of this dovely plant.

I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up in some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem., get recipe for Mina.)

Just as metaphors lose their metaphoricity as they congeal through time into concepts, so subversive performances always run the risk of becoming deadening cliches through their repetition and, most importantly, through their repetition within commodity culture where subversion carries market value.