Snake lemma.


"One shows respect through formality, through indirection; there are necessary locutions within which questions and responses should be couched, muffled, like winter padding on a horse's hooves, so that the ring of fact on stone remains the perogative of the elder, the teacher." --The Sultan's Seal


"...these were the days when the gift of forgetting was a treasure in itself."
--The Locusts Have No King


lu tutci jivbu li'u tcita di'e .i tu'e

renvi co nanca li vopa
.i le baxso djine be lemi
degji ru'i sinxa co prami
je speni .i logji vlipa
.i sarlu fa le tarmi

.i senva co nanca li vopa
.i le ve fanva mi jorne
le jaivi tolpei .i cmene
da poi vi'e clupa
ke'a .i baxso djine

tu'u ("Toolloom": 'Survivor of 41 years.
The Balinese ring on my finger stands for husband & lover.
Logic powerful. Spiral shaped. Forty one years a dreamer.
The thing translated from is joined to me at the place of
mystery. Name of what is everywhere looped. Balinese
ring.')