Traded in my wisdom ( Read more... )

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction." - Martin ( Read more... )

So, I'm coming up with prompts to leave at
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"You're beautiful,"
Said the graffiti on the wall
And I listened
And half-believed
That sight-unseen promise
Of universal beauty.
But it's hard to listen to blank walls
Covered in white paint
It's hard to believe
Without that anonymous affirmation
"You're beautiful."

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So of course I forgot all about buying text books or else I might have tried ordering them earlier, so I could get them used.
Fortunately, only one of my classes even has books. Unfortunately, it has six. Five of which I managed to purchase at used book stores around town.

First stop: Murphy-Brookfield Books where I got Journeys in New Worlds: ( Read more... )

Which is,
Of course,
To start all over again.

Inevitably failing that,
To plot what is left:
In rising tension,
In falling grace.

Of course,
There are no readers.

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Johann Fück. Actual dude. Author of Die Arabischen Studien in Europa (made a label for its box today).

And yes, the 'u' has an umlaut, so it's pronounced differently, but allow me my moment of juvenile amusement, won't you?

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