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This structure, evidenced but also produced by the punctuation, makes the text’s history profoundly apparent, the specified limits and the edges are there to see, and the manner in which meaning-making takes place-as a staged series of past and present relationships among interchangeable parts-remains. When I consider the form of the text above, that’s what I come up with. Our punctuation marks mark our punctuations. And it is precisely by such an interruption that meaning is created-“This here thing is related to that thing there, but they are not the same.” Texts re-signified by their extraction from there and their insertion here old contexts erased (yet hinted at). “But see here now?” they simultaneously ask, “Something new is happening, right before your eyes.”Įllipsis and quotation marks-marks by which writers make admissions to readers (akin to Bruce Lincoln’s sense, in the epilogue to his Theorizing Myth, of how footnotes “show your work”) and by which readers are reminded that writers fabricate their texts (they don’t just happen by themselves, after all), doing so by inserting their own uninvited interests into other people’s prior situations, making texts of other contexts, thereby interrupting someone else’s work and putting to new use just this one piece of a past. For, much like the verbs “remove” or “omit,” it makes evident that a strategic operation has taken place what’s more, the 66s and 99s that frame the text inform readers that the removal had surgical precision, for they allow them to conclude that this is precisely how it is in the absent original-“Go, find it, and compare for yourself,” they challenge. To begin this project of un-reading, I start offstage, before the meaning takes place, and note that the removal of these words from a larger context is signaled by those three dots which, when read as a unit, indicate that something is not just passively missing but omitted (as its Greek root, ἔλλειψις, makes plain)-i.e., this notation leaves a trace of the agency, the choice, of the one who has done the extraction. I find these three words interesting-worth re-reading, even un-reading, rather than just reading-because of the contradiction that they carry along with them for they unsay what it is that we think they just said. Take my epigraph, for example: three words from the fourth paragraph of Frequencies’ project statement.

To complement the rum cocktails from Three Dots, guests can enjoy a menu from local Amy’s Pastelillos, a Puerto Rican style empanadas pop-up by Chef Amy Rivera-Nassar and Hummingbird Island, Jamaican food pop-up based in Philadelphia by Chef Tevon Ty.Language is a funny thing. Non-alcoholic Watermelon-Pineapple Soda: Watermelon, pineapple, white wine verjus Non-alcoholic Carrot Dreamsicle: Carrot, OJ, oats, earl grey Strawberry Junglebird: Wray and Nephew, Appleton Estate, Campari, late bottle vintage port, strawberry, pineapple, lime Middle Child Clubhouse NA Drinks: Idle Hands: Banana Rum blend, clarified banana cordial, lime 2.0Ģ044: Wray and Nephew Rum, yellow Chartreuse, lime juice, orgeat

Watermelon Felon: Espolon Tequila, yellow Chartreuse, Aperol, watermelon, pineapple, lime, cinnamon Lower Wacker: Wild Turkey 101 Bourbon, 151 Proof Guyana rum, maraschino, red vermouth, honey, lime, grapefruit

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The special menu will feature signature cocktails ($15, plus tax) from Three Dots and non-alcoholic drinks ($8, plus tax) from Middle Child Clubhouse, select beer and wine will also be available. The three are thrilled to collaborate for this pop-up and mix up some of the most innovative rum cocktails in the country for Philadelphia.

Previously named one of the 50 Best Bars, Three Dots Beverage Director Kevin Beary and Head Bartender Scott Kitsmiller connected with Middle Child’s General Manager Brandon Thrash during his time working in Chicago. On Monday, August 15 from 7:00 pm – 1:00 am, Chicago’s award-winning tropical bar Three Dots and a Dash is traveling to Philadelphia for the first time and taking over Middle Child Clubhouse (1232 N Front St.) for one night only.

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