"...Cromwell's cannons were inscribed 'God is Love'.)" --Eliot Weinberger

'Everybody seemed intent on his daily round and went smilingly about the business of carrying out his instructions. It was essential to smile--if you didn't, it meant you were afraid or discontented. This nobody could afford to admit--if you were afraid, then you must have a bad conscience.' --Hope Against Hope (tr Max Hayward 1970)

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Transhumant stars, napalm of forgiveness
this grim & crenulated heart
Odo, Abdurrahman:
behind the mountains there are mountains

Saragossa espresso
gneiss of skraelings
books with broken spines
HD36395

Necropolis mass-transit
here runs on time
collateral damage dead spider decor
Aldus shrugged

my melted face oodoolay
my Voynich coelacanth

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"There is a Skagit Indian myth that tells of a common language spoken by humans and animals and nature. It prophesies: 'When we can understand animals, we will know that the change is halfway. When we can talk to the forest, we will know that the change is come.' " --Brenda Peterson, Living by Water (1990)