(via Sgt. Grit)


eyes have forgotten
the glare of summer
without shades
squinting painfully
eyes have forgotten
what so long they knew
how to see
the view unaided
eyes have forgotten
the time that took me
darkening
and for whom i changed
eyes have forgotten
the skin remembers
and holds fast
its perfect tokens


"It was not the emotion, or rather the situation, that he knew in Anvallic as cariah. Though he had quickly grown to like the speech of Ashamoil, which was essentially a skeleton of elegant Halacian grammar generously fleshed with the vocabulary of a dozen other tongues, it was his view that his native language offered more precise tools for defining certain concepts and emotional states, of which love happened to be one. In Beth's language he could, if he wished, say, 'I love you.' In Anvallic this phrase was impossible, for cariah, loving, had no form in the singular person, but could only be expressed in the plural. It was understood to be something that existed as a mutual sentiment or not at all, and it implied a voluntary blending of identities. When one person wished to affirm cariah with another, the expression most often used was, 'We love as water loves water and fire loves fire.' " --The Etched City (this quote precedes the other one, actually)


Early Release from Debtor's Prison.


    lines from Royston's Lycophron:

Our greatest curse! whom Bombylean realms

Bedded on oozy foison, like a shell

Commands th' Alæan fane high-throned, and rolls

...sable robes
Of wo shall clothe thine habitants, and all
Squalid with grief, and savaged by despair,
Dishevell'd tresses of entangling curls
Shall float upon their shoulders, signs of wo.

And dragon coil implicit; then shall steer

My forceful spousals, and the foul embrace

Such wiles, the mining hedgehog shall infuse

And lies all withering on Methymna's shore


International transsexual pop star thread on Metafilter.


Loki: a Paean in Progress. "The unintended consequences of Loki's actions are often more meaningful and far-reaching than the event which set them into motion..."


The dictionary Mallarmé used for his etymonarchical writing is now online! (via Language Hat)


The Great Debate. (via Silliman)