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"Necropastoral seeks to activate these suppressed aspects of pastoral—the necrotized, the infectious, the counterfeit , the pastoral as a site not of separation but of deadly traffic, not of a wall but a membrane, not an idyll but an unstable compact, not a place of simplicity but of the worst intentions."

"Fin de Fête

Sweetheart, for such a day
   One mustn’t grudge the score;
Here, then, it’s all to pay,
   It’s Good-night at the door.

Good-night and good dreams to you,—
   Do you remember the picture-book thieves
Who left two children sleeping in a wood the long night through,
   And how the birds came down and covered them with leaves?

So you and I should have slept,—But now,
   Oh, what a lonely head!
With just the shadow of a waving bough
   In the moonlight over your bed."

--Charlotte Mew

Exploring Silvermoon City.

"Many think it is reviewing which needs to be reformed, but I believe the culprit is the species, which surrounds itself with lies, and calls the lies culture, the way squirrels build their nests of dead twigs and fallen leaves, then hide inside." --William Gass

"It may be that every man is set upon the earth to find one new method of divination."