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"...the luminous translucency of pink Iranian onyx."

"When I call by habit
My cherished friends’ names
Always on this strange roll-call
Only silence answers me."

—Anna Akhmatova, 1943 via

Sea-Shell Murmurs.

"No, I’d love to hear your common sense view of the left-right political spectrum. Your generalizations are illuminating and not at all influenced by having lived your entire life in a nation ideologically committed to the preservation of capitalism." —@rmhaines

"Once the nervous system failed, the body spasmed and flung in different directions hoping to create subgenres of its study, but did this too soon in its infancy, and its reputation became mired in quackery and subsequently dismissed as unserious.."