"Forthwith, in full Gorgonian venom steeped,
Allecto seeks the realms and lofty halls..."
--Cranch's Vergil (1872)

The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed by Racter, was
supposed to be the first computer written book (1984).
Well, not quite... There is a lot of stuff about computer-generated writing on the net, but
none of it IMHO beats a simple word randomizer. The real art is selecting
vocabularies.

"Web space is not so much disembodied as differently bodied." --Charles
Bernstein (via Wood's Lot)

Some beautiful photos of a warehouse fire by J R Compton.

Finally, something on the elusive palindromically-named
language Malayalam. (thanx Aimee)

Gabriele D'Annunzio was a colorful character, a pretty good
writer, but what fascinates me about him is his house.

Some images from Niki de Saint Phalle's Tarot Garden.