"You maniacs!"
"The new Collected Poems of J.R.R Tolkien just arrived. Appendix V is a translation of 'Jabberwocky' into Old English alliterative verse! It was done some time in the 1930s as a gift to C.S. Lewis. Typing Old English is hard on this keyboard, but here's one verse.
'Beorg þe wiþ Bealuwerg, byre min leofa,
grapan griple, goman bitre!
Geo-geowfugal eac georne bebug!
Hrumheortne scuna Hloþorlæccan!' "
via Joe Hoffman at Forgotten Grounds Regained grp
"The genocide in the Book of Joshua was disturbingly prescient."
Random # 85 = 151 in base-7; 1 + 5 + 1 = 7 lines
beacon fires unfaring
a frost glyph in stiff dark
pain vanished a vestal
aversion left surgeon's
scalpel signed window
skies of before-Yorick
dug up after depth-cast
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