Say that a person is writing love letters to his girlfriend. Well, more like little notes, really. Short letter-like things that might, theoretically, smell interesting and have pretty handwriting. Very poetic prose -- as in they'd be stalker-y if they were A) longer and B) written in blood.

Is it ever appropriate for him to use the word "loins ( Read more... )

wicked_wish is trying to help a friend place some homeless black kittens, and has informed us all that for some reason, black kittens are harder to adopt out ( Read more... )

Occasionally, a truly beautiful spam message makes its way into my inbox. Reminiscent of the word-salad babbling of a small child or a person with advanced Alzheimers, these emails are culled and stored in a special file, one that I can open and pore through at any time for a colorful sentence, phrase, word. Often just their titles surprise and ( Read more... )

On a whim, I unearthed some translations of the poetry of St. John of the Cross online, and it got me pondering.

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