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"He told the magazine that he might be the only ufologist who still did not know what UFOs were."

"ENVOY FROM D'AUBIGNÉ

Go book

go
now I will let you
I open the grave
live
I will die for us both

go but come again if you can
and feed me in prison

if they ask you why
you do not boast of me
tell them as they
have forgotten
truth habitually
gives birth in private

Go without ornament
without showy garment
if there is in you any
joy
may the good find it

for the others be
a glass broken in their mouths

Child
how will you
survive with nothing but your virtue
to draw around you
when they shout Die die

who have been frightened before
the many

I think of all I wrote in my time
dew
and I am standing in dry air

Here are what flowers there are
and what hope
from my years

and the fire I carried with me

Book
burn what will not abide your light

When I consider the old ambitions
to be on many lips
meaning little there
it would be enough for me to know
who is writing this
and sleep knowing it

far from glory and its gibbets

and dream of those who drank at the icy fountain
and told the truth"

—W S Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders<,/i> (1970)

"Most of our students are functionally illiterate."

"The old become surface at a time when they are most deep, yet this is not something done to them." —Nocebo

"After 186 years in France, a 500-year old Aztec manuscript, the Azcatitlán Codex, has returned to Mexico..."