washing dishes: a father’s glimpses

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There is considerable word play and many definitions in the compilation of notes in Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes. Some of them include —

comfort (n): full of complicated feelings and the resolve to live them (287)

regard (noun): habit of care; appreciation and esteem;

regard (verb): the right of repair. (256)

abolition (noun): remaking our vocabularies. (262)

care (noun): 1) acts and accounts of shared, distributed risk; 2) mass refusals of unbearable life; 3) total rejections of the dead future. (333)

whiteness (state of being): 1) DuBois: the ownership of the earth forever and ever; 2) DuBois: wave on wave of the new religion on our shores; 3) the deputized; 4) Frank B. Wilderson III: the police, in their corporeality; 5) property; 6) the violent protection of property. (330)