"Snorri, in reproducing both the traditional and innovatory forms of Háttalykill as well as giving examples of other metres that had never in the ordinary way been used by Norse poets before, must also to a certain extent be said to be exemplifying what was theoretically possible in Norse verse, not what had actually been practised." (Translated 190ff.)
"By the way, Melville reads Old Books. He has borrowed Sir Thomas Browne of me and says finely of the speculations of the Religio Medici that Browne is a kind of 'crack'd Archangel.' Was ever anything of this sort said before by a sailor?
- Evert Duyckinck to his brother George.
Upon his return from adventures at sea, Evert Duyckinck had given Melville the freedom of his 16,000 volume library."
--@gregorykindall
Random # 133 = 270 in base-7; 2 + 7 + 0 = 9 lines
substance stinted · subsidence
of the Great Salt Lake · liripoop
serves me less & less · i linger in tidepools
old films i understood once · ev'rything
wobbles, like a Wikipedia · page that hands
will not let alone · lately
the sky cracks · over a stern cradle
of monsters who march · like regular guys
with guns trained · on my unarmed truth
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