"" 'If fate does not wish it,' he thought, 'then all our endeavours are futile.
That which I want I have not and that which I have I want not.
Truly this world of ours is wrapt in a mantle of darkness.
Nothing flows out of a jar except that already inside it.' "

--Rustaveli (tr V Urushadze)


The Bottled Water Backlash.


A book on the stock market from 1928. Wabi.


    "The Tatters of the King"

Guernica watch in the art season
Eamespunk squatter dictatorship greed season

ubiquitous budgie smear
an ebbing season

who concur
with Graywyvern this candle season


Line Monty.


"In short, it's discomfiting to pose as the cultural elite of populism."


"Women serving in the military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than to be killed by enemy fire."