via / me )

For those who like their fiction pulp.

"Of carnal ardour and of charm poetic
Was born the poison that infects the world."

--Antero de Quental (tr Roy Campbell)

"Surely I am evading my responsibilities..."

xalas qu lauleya
raxidi sava aju
aima yengo

( 'crow ectoplasm/ writes sign language/ among the clouds' )

"On hearing of the slaughter, Philip II of Spain supposedly 'laughed, for almost the only time on record'."