(via marc*lproust dot it slash imagg)

"The Taj [Mahal] is no longer white but a grimy yellow. Local Indians are hacking away pieces of the facade and selling them. The guards do nothing. We splurged on a hotel room with a direct view of the Taj but could hardly see it on some days through the haze." --Th* 3nds of th* 3arth


A dollar and a dollar and a dollar. Thirty-six klicks.


Tiktaalik · in lucid murk
slow · swarming
down · uvula murk
gray catalyst · prison yard yawning to sky
skiff splosh · flourish burning cumin murk
what · soaring
in this drab · Iliad murk
Myklagaard song · walking along a high wall
forlorn · dandy murk

Tiktaalik · tubular
lord · droll indigo


"[Ziya Gökalp] believed...the Turks should use Arabic and Persian to form new Ottomanisms. ...His most successful coinage was a word for 'ideal'." --L*wis