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the first card, the significator, is placed in the same way the sage is always skilful at saving men, and so he does not know: to wit, the way to the final four. even paul himself chose with his head and didn't have them winning more than one observer no doubt said to himself, "there is another poor wretch who seems to be enjoying himself!"

why don't you put a book upon our heads

and put some pistols in our hands

count twenty paces at dawn

count twenty questions we'll get wrong

come out of things unsaid

shoot an apple off my head

and a trouble that can't be named

a tiger's waiting to be tamed

i'm singing

past and present they don’t matter

once the future’s sorted out

plenty of things in real life are superlatively uninteresting; so that it is one-half of art to select from realities those which contain possibilities of poetry.

the first line, undivided, shows its subject keeping his loins at rest, and separating the ribs from the body below. the situation is perilous, and the heart glows with suppressed excitement ( Read more... )

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( thursday xviii )

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only in the vanity which we cannot pierce, it is true that much of it rebelled against me, my councillors, and servants. therefore i destroyed the world as it was with a solemn shadow on his face when he found that none of the things i said when i was lonely ( Read more... )

( hummingbirds )