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The Queen of Spades (1949). ☆☆☆☆

"drinking Fresca on the precipice"

chesspiece parsed in wood
perfect weight & gateway
cobwebbed now coigns rob
of coming here deerlike
out of the erg fog

Lines for Centos.

" 'Can you think of an average person?'
'Well, I would rather not think of one,' said Ursula.
'Most people must be average,' said Catherine, 'or there would not be such a thing.'
'Well, let us hope there is not,' said her sister."

--@icomptonburnett.bsky.social

"It is the season of suicide and divorce and prickly dread, wherever the wind blows."