| word of the day: bibliobibuli |
[Nov. 30th, 2007|03:42 pm] |
People who read too much and so are generally oblivious to the world around them - coined by H.L. Mencken |
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| Mila kura si planina |
[Nov. 23rd, 2007|02:36 pm] |
in Croat, translates as "My dear, my penis is a mountain." This mistranslation of "You know my dear how we love your mountains" helped the Croatian soccer team beat England. Or, as they say, England flops shafted by enormous todger.
Isn't language great? As Krazy Kat says, language is what we use "that we may mis-unda-stend each udda." |
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| poem: The Orange |
[Sep. 4th, 2007|08:39 pm] |
The Orange
dinner.
after dinner,
an orange
its gleaming flesh has taunted me for days
memories of a sweet day on the beach
sweet kisses
sweet embraces
sweet kisses
I venture an exploratory bite.
Tender, watery, overripe,
I take a bigger bite.
With each piece taken I take a larger piece,
wolfing down the segments of the orange.
A mound of peels in the trash.
The last of the peels, the last of the orange,
I sigh and lick my lips.
Walking slowly away, I unwrap the coup de grâce:
the chocolate. |
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| H.P. Lovecraft, Poetry Critic |
[Jun. 11th, 2007|09:13 pm] |
The ill effect of metrical laxity on the younger generation of poets is enormous. ... The result cannot but be a race of churlish, cacophonous hybrids, whose amorphous outcries will waver uncertainly betwixt prose and verse, absorbing the vices of both and the virtues of neither. from Metrical Regularity, 1915 (via MetaFilter) |
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| on writing |
[Mar. 1st, 2007|09:03 am] |
I've been shocked at how insightful and intelligent the Founding Fathers were. Benjamin Franklin of course was brilliant, but Thomas Jefferson and Adams quotes I've found deeply moving. Recently, Washington was quoted on NPR:
Every part of our country ... will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. -- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington
Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal is the definition of biting satire. Go read it, we'll wait. ... Great, wasn't it? It turns out there's a free audio version for giving away to your trendy but ill-read friends:
http://librivox.org/a-modest-proposal-by-jonathan-swift/ |
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