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Theme from Valley of the Dolls.

   "I go out of the darkness
onto a road of darkness
lit only by the far off
moon on the edge of the mountains."

—Lady Izumi Shikibu (Rexroth tr)

   "Out of the darkness
onto a road of darkness
   i go, illumined
only by the far-off moon
on the edge of the mountains."

(my paraphranslation)

An Alliterative Iliad.

"Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison." —@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

In the Realm of the Mothers.