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...Muslim performers of hobbyhorse trance dancing become become possessed by the spirits of horses. To the accompaniment of gongs, drums, and an oboe, they make horselike movements and commit potentially dangerous acts, like breaking and eating glass." - Garland Encyclopedia, SE Asia

"Do not hurt me to leave you."

"And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were obliterated, their content lost, they turned into trash, chaff, dist, sand; prowling through his brain, tearing at his head, they were his ( Read more... )

like trying to run on the sand.

(Apologies to Homer and Sam Walter Foss ( Read more... )

vodka (1 part), gin (1 part), orange juice (2 parts), orange cocktail mixer (1/2 part), and black currant juice (1 part) and 2 ice cubes.

From the director of the Ecology and Evolution Department at UConn to my father...

"I have a whole lot of the same stamp from India - is someone in your family still interested?"

Interested in stamps, yes.
Interested in the same stamp over and over again, no.

The ground was to cold to bury you.

the soundtrack to my madness.

creeping. statistical.

It starts, always, with numbers and regrets.