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"Finally, on January 9th, at 2 o'clock in the morning, Hudson brought out a bottle of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, 1949, and they drank to the overthrow of the law of parity."

"Polytropos isn't necessarily positive, at least in later uses." —Emily Wilson via

Not flat.

"Maundy Thursday (from the Ukrainian of Mykola Zerov)

Flames and warm smoke. A song of hopeless fate
and longing echoes down from the high choirs.
Surrounding us are guards and crucifiers,
the Great Sanhedrin, Caesar’s magistrate.

This is our destiny, its pattern dark and dire.
It is for us the rooster crows in warning,
for us the fires in the yard are burning,
the servants sing now in the bishop’s choir.

All those grim omens, all the Gospel stories
sound to our ears like subtle allegories
for what we see: our low dishonest times.

While in the graveyard, in the church—still there—
are children’s voices, candles, tinkling chimes,
and damp stars shining in the dusky air."

—Boris Dralyuk via

The Holy Mountain.