"The important Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Saturn's rings as well as one of its four moons, preferred Spinoza's lenses to all others." --Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza (2006)


"A Plot to Blow Up Fountain Place"

1.
morth · both · dark hegemony
dwarven depth
in brain shroud we wandered and · nautiloids drove
there is no lightning
better than alabaster · popping
sound outside
red and blue flashing

2.
qIj body temperaturo · nautiloids
those fading contrails whisper
red speedboat now on mia strato

kukte tcati .i djacu
glabi'o tablivla · the hidden
casino

robbed · ghojmoHghachmey
not mutiny avalanche acid streak ice


"Urban infrastructure and information theory to the critical theorists (they were landscape poets, by temperament) of the middle to late 1980s, was what the Lake District had been to Victorian Romantics, the mountains of Nepal to a traveller on the Magic Bus, or the peaks of Bavaria to Pantheist seekers of the Sublime." --Michael Bracewell, When Surface Was Depth (2002)


Parasites Like Us.


Y2K, meet Y2K38.


Coywolves.