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"Come, selfsame and ageless Night..."

"Nonsense and mystery are not substitutes for truth; they are its consorts, engaged with it in perpetual dialogue."

—Louise Glück via @chenchenwrites

A handful of curious links.

subfusc swathes · as a bug balances
halfway between here · & glassed off heaven

to manage mangled · nerves now
to find peace in being part · of a rathe process

having done what i deemed · was the thing needful
from a rude roster · of impossible choices

"Much of the New York City subway depends on mechanical switching systems installed in the nineteen-thirties; many banks rely on software written in COBOL, a basically obsolete programming language." (via Mefi)