( via / me )

La fille aux yeux d’or (1961). ☆☆☆

"UNIVERSE (Lipogram*-Haiku)

Universe — ever
sure river; ensure verses
survive risen suns."

(*using only u, n, i, v, e, r, & s)

--@Anthony_Etherin

Has anyone seen Gordon Freeman?

"It was low tide on the Continent of Europe, except for one deep pool at Toulouse where the grammarian Virgilius Maro agitated strangely on the secret tongues of Latin, and told his story of the two scholars who argued for fifteen days and nights without sleeping or eating on the frequentative of the verb to be, till it almost came to knives, rather like the monsters one expects to find stranded in an ebb." --The Wandering Scholars

"A girl in front of me in the queue was reading a book called Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate; I felt that in Trafalgar Square, which is full of tourists and, as John Berger wrote, is oddly indifferent to history, this seemed like a very serious thing to be reading."