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Traffic out from Tehran.

"There is Much at Work

There is much at work to make the world
Surer by being more beautiful.
But too many beauties overwhelm the proof.
Too much beauty is Lethe.

The succession of fair things
Delights, does not enlighten.
We still know nothing, nothing.
Beauty will be truth but once.

Exchange the multiplied bewilderment
For a single presentation of fact by fairness;
And the revelation will be instantaneous.
We shall all die quickly."

--Laura (Riding) Jackson

"...time in gulps and glitches/ passing, squibs of threnody..."

"He was not in the drawing room, so I looked for a book, remembering not to choose it simply to match my clothes like a woman in Firbank." —A Case of Knives

A volcano in Indonesia has erupted!