“There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.”
-Nicole Krauss
Niou, you'd better start running. There is one very wet mechanical owl with a desire for vengeance on the loose.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
-T.S Eliot
Creating translations about the Muses on Mount Parnassus makes me wish to take a trip out to Greece, just to see what sorts of surroundings they might have lived in. The chances of those ( Read more... )