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"It comes as a surprise to new readers that, apart from the action of the three monster fights, large swaths of the poem consist of stories within stories, referring to characters and events in what I call the Germanic Expanded Universe." (via @rhunedhel.bsky.social

“All sin ever is evil,
As is Sargasso
Forever on Ossa…”

–Satire: Veritas

"I watch, God forgive me not, I keep watch
When I should be running towards the blaze."

“Astronomy

Taste and touch brighten spring snow
Weeds brought the refusal
Unbearably

Weeds loitered western stars
The earth catwalks the east rim
Less vivid

To rest the earth
To have fog-breath
The little western stars fought”

–Don Shea & an IBM 360 computer in: Avant Garde (9/68)

"Burgess’s article ends by proposing, only half-seriously, the establishment of a new pan-European lingua franca to be called ‘Marcommunish."