March 2012
3 posts
3 tags
5 tags
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should...
– Job 16:5 (KJV)
2 tags
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
3 posts
blue dress shirt x3 winter boots how (silently and very fast) you were running escaping the storm in the woods in the twilight, how you stumbled and made that salto mortale, how you were rolling down the mountainside through the deer shrubs, over the rocks and dusty grass, how you were pulling those spiny seeds out of your face and those burrs out of your hair like out of a dog’s coat laptop...
He died in Geneva, Switzerland, 19 August 1923, «among a menagerie of cats that...
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto
September 2011
2 posts
A lot of things can go wrong when dealing with the outside world because it is...
– Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
June 2011
1 post
steer away from these rocks, we’d be a walking disaster
– Radiohead, “There There”
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
Thank god for the egos of stone.
– my twitter feat. yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/
October 2010
1 post
Or when, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious of nothing — I said to...
– T. S. Eliot
August 2010
1 post
f x = x. I don’t do very much but at least I’m unique.
– James Chapman
July 2010
1 post
Because, although our love, beginning Hans Andersen, became Grimm, and there are...
– Wystan Hugh Auden to Chester Kallman, “Christmas Day, 1941”
June 2010
3 posts
And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the...
– R. M. Rilke, “Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes”
1 tag
My Latin is very beat up, — Thomas Hudson said. — Along with my...
– Ernest Hemingway, “Islands in the Stream”
It is highly recommended that care and common sense be used whenever working...
– Educational Innovations, Inc.
May 2010
3 posts
I’m pretty alone, thank you.
– Marc Langheinrich
Besides, at a certain age, and in a certain line of work at that, to be loved...
– J. Brodsky, “Fondamenta degli Incurabili”
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As a former drunken sailor, I quit when I ran out of money.
– Bruce L. Hargraves, USN Retired, Worland
April 2010
2 posts
To visit the grave of a friend, to make an ugly scene, to count the loves one...
– W. H. Auden, “Homage to Clio”
After a conflict with their husbands women turn into fish.
– http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/berezkin/eng.htm
March 2010
3 posts
My theory is that songs have to be anatomically correct. They need to have...
– Tom Waits
Hey Charlie, I think I’m happy for the first time since my accident and I...
– Tom Waits, “Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis”
February 2010
1 post
1 tag
It’s stifling. The eye’s guided by a blinking stop light in its...
– J. Brodsky, “Lullaby of Cape Cod”
January 2010
1 post
Paradise was less concrete: it is always night, and there are fountains of...
– J. Borges, “A Universal History of Iniquity”
December 2009
3 posts
Mi domandavo chi fosse nell’astrazione, io lei o tutti e due, ma seguendo...
– E. Montale, “Due Prose Veneziane”
A canal bridge spanning fresh water keeps the hazy bank on the other side from...
– J. Brodsky, “San Pietro”
Let me reiterate: water equals time and provides beauty with its double. Part...
– J. Brodsky, “Fondamenta degli Incurabili”