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5 Steps to a Meaningless Life.

"I am not put upon either by force or indigency, nor by a vain-glory, or a self-end, to set down any letter, and to leave it to posterity; only a meer consideration of the frailty and of the miserableness of this world, where the children of darkness are almost quite lost in their groping ways, hath caused me to do so. I am not able to express how much my mind is perplexed, when I think on the folly of this frail world, and consider the Cimmerian Darkness of its Children, which think themselves of deep understanding, when they have heard some Sopperies of the Universal Chair-men discoursed of, thereby supposing to be much enlightened in their understandings." --Basil Valentine via

"Because of Turing, every computer is a little Gay.
Because of Conway, every computer is a little Trans."

sign shining · blank scripture
sudden fob of goblins
run in the lorn rayfall
relict predilection

smorgasbord of smoke tors
besmirch all lilac silos
bodycount soars · bars flip
their beckon-cards, feckless

"Spey of the Symbol stones and Ness from the serpentine mere..."