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"It didn’t help that the eight biospherians who locked themselves inside for a two-year stint in 1992 dressed in Star Trek-like uniforms and had names like Laser and Harlequin."

"silence of the dolls"

if it’s not the moon
maybe it’s a smudge
spiralling balloon
as beneath we trudge

let that light go by
if it’s not the moon
other alibi
won’t be begging soon

with such feints is strewn
journey to the tell
if it’s not the moon
lures us · just as well

up there does not budge
what belies the tune
churned by ilka drudge
if it’s not the moon

(2022)

"He was a 'sinister magician'; a kind of fallen Janus to the kindly, avuncular trickeries of the magister Melies (his natural forebear)."

“It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.” —Blaise Pascal

"A Norman Christian king commissioning a Muslim geographer to describe the entire world, out of Greek and Latin and Arabic learning."