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Throbbing flickering still life.

"AD PUERUM
Horace: Book I, Ode 32.

'Persicos odi, puer, apparatus.'

Nix on the Persian pretence!
   Myrtle for Quintus H. Flaccus!
Wreaths of the linden tree, hence!
Nix on the Persian pretence!
Waiter, here's seventy cents—
   Come, let me celebrate Bacchus!
Nix on the Persian pretence!
   Myrtle for Quintus H. Flaccus."

--Franklin P Adams via @amjuster

Tips on 'how to become a better man.

"Old English actually had a cutesy word for a spider: ātorcoppe, or ‘poison-head’.

The word survives in Northern England as ‘attercop’, where it also means a peevish, bad-tempered person. ALSO, at some point ppl started shortening it to ‘cop’, which is where ‘cobweb’ comes from." --@wylfcen

A poorly remembered story about 'platero' .