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The Wait.

"Verses to Exhaust My Stock of Four-Letter Words

From the ocean floors, where the necrovores
   Of the zoöoögenous mud
Fight for their share, to the Andes where
   Bullllamas thunder and thud,

And even thence to the heavens, whence
   Archchurchmen appear to receive
The shortwave stations of rival nations
   Of angels: 'Believe! Believe!'

They battle, they battle — poor put-upon cattle,
   Each waging, reluctantly,
That punitive war on the disagreeor
   Which falls to the disagreeee."

– George Starbuck

Waves, dots, black & white.

"I’m also wondering how one might translate соглядатай if one didn’t want to go with 'The Eye.' I checked the Oxford Historical Thesaurus and found a couple of comparably obsolete words for ‘spy’: explorator 'A person employed to collect information, esp. with regard to an enemy, or an enemy’s country; a scout; a spy' and otacust 'A listener; an eavesdropper; a spy'." --Steve Dodson at Languagehat.

A month of rabbit holes.