the mellow plum doth fall, the green sticks fast ( Read more... )

"had the internet existed in the mid-'80s, it wouldn't have turned out so well for kc jones."

ain't that the truth!

not because he loved the literature of the east, but from a desire that people should understand and realise what he was writing. he was near the truth upon the general question; but in his own particular method, it appears to me, he wandered. literature is not less a conventional art than painting or sculpture; and it is the least striking, as it ( Read more... )

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Eros will begin to dim on Valentine's Day.

gratiolet remarks, "quand l'attention est fixée sur quelque image intérieure, l'oeil regarde dans le vide et s'associe automatiquement à la contemplation de l'esprit." but this view hardly deserves to be called an explanation.

i am, at this very moment. and planning my triumphant return to the mainland.

the above is entirely true, and not metaphorically speaking. although i like the metaphorical appeal. somewhat. it's complex.

google analytics tells me that someone searching for the phrase "if i could not to love you" was led thereby to my lj. i can guess neither what content the searcher was seeking nor what content in my lj could possibly have matched this. so i decided i'd write a poem responsive to that search so that my mystery guest or anyone else searching that ( Read more... )

"there is no victor here."

(an ancient woman and her ancient male companion had just exited the elevator when her cell phone rang.)