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"As I contemplate the militarization of one the most 'elite' institutions of higher education in the U.S., with its myriad promises of public engagement, I suspect the corrosive irony of the so-called Pax Americana has reached what Vico would call a 'barbaric' phase."

"ninety years old
Dad reads his Li Po,
phone off the hook,
I listen to mountain winds
watch the mist roll in"

--Maxwell Ryan in Tanka Splendor 2004

"Language died..."

"Doomer, negate story rot: set a genre mood." --@Anythony_Etherin

Old Cottonwoods.