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1. Holiday Hint: all family gatherings shoud be conducted via the softening distortion of earphoned U.N. translators.
2. It is better to light a candle AND curse the darkness.
3. Hope has become an aerobic activity.
4. Reasons to love Chicago: I bought a carpet from a young man whose first name was Sargon.
5. Best reported sermon snippet:
Men are pancakes/Women are waffles.
6. Advice for drafters of DSM-V: Goreyesque illustrations.
7. Added DSM-V suggestion: meld definitions with gardening tags. The person both callous and easily bruised: Tender Narcissist.
Fixed is the term to all the race of earth;
And such the hard condition of our birth,
No force can then resist, no flight can save;
All sink alike, the fearful and the brave.
(Iliad, Pope trans.)
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
:-) I love number 2) especially.
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