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The Arrogant History of White Ben.

   cicadas drowned out
for a moment by airplane
   as i check the mail

Ten Forgotten London Films.

"One in ten classical Tamil words are Sanskrit-origin, with a higher percentage for religious writings and a lower percentage for everyday Tamil. This is actually on the lower end for Dravidian languages. Telugu, spoken in Andhra Pradhesh, has a thirty percent Sanskrit vocabulary; for Kannada, spoken in Karnataka, almost half the words come from Sanskrit, roughly the same percentage shown by Hindi. But Hindi is written in Sanskrit’s script, while the others are not."
—Amit Majmudar via

Reading Gravity's Rainbow in Hiroshima.