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"He has had cause to regret the pseudonym he chose on a whim. 'Oh, hi,' John Ashbery said when they were introduced. 'I’m Lowell Massachusetts'." (via @mcmansionhell)

  am i so simple
as to think a government
  is run by humans

who can issue instructions
to stop making people die

"The bitter irony of this variant of nationalism, well suited to the new post-Ottoman Western colonial order, is that not only was it alien to the history of the Middle East, but it also powerfully fused ethnicity and religion just as a new ecumenical Arab nationalism...sought to dissociate the two strands." (via @albernaj)

"In the evenings we will sit right here on this front porch and count the stars." --@frogandtoadbot

The Scent of Time.