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Piranhamasia.

“One mark of originality that can give canonical status to a literary work,” wrote Harold Bloom, “is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.” (via)

Sword-Maiden's Song.

"As Wilde himself once put it, what can be said in an aphorism is usually not worth saying, but what can only be said in an aphorism is always worth saying."