The black fish under the bridge was so long I mistook it
for a goldfish in a Japanese garden the kind the philosophers
wanted about them so much gold underwater to tell them what waited
in another element like breathing water they wanted to go
to the place where closing eyes is to see.

-some poet

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men
By strangers with a calm, judicial pen,
And when the borders bleed we watch with dread
The lines of ink across the map turn red.

-Marya Mannes, Subverse: Rhymes for Our Times, 1959

I'm tired. Mentally, physically... mentally. Ungh. Everything is so grey in this pseudo-Siberia.

I'm going to go back on the other medication. I can't put up with these fucking side effects. It's been more than eight years now, but I'm sick of it. The other medicine makes me tired all day (mostly because it isn't bloody speed like this shit), but I just have to.

What's going on with me? This insomnia will kill me. I slept barely an hour and a half yesterday, and again tonight I'm sleepless. At best I'll get four hours, but I probably wont be able to rest for at least another two... I've always had late nights, but in the past I was always tired very early the next day because of it. But by tomorrow I'll ( Read more... )

der Bananendampfer
die Bananendiät
die Bananensteckerbuchse
die Bananenschale
die Bananenstaude
der Bananenstecker
die Bananenbreitstreckwalze

Construction languages are fucking awesome. Who wants to go sailing with me on my Bananendampfer?

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Cecil John Seddon Purdy (1906 - 1979) was an Australian chess International Master (IM) and inaugural World Correspondence Chess champion. He was described by Bobby Fischer as being a great chess instructor. Some of his writings are still in print. He is somewhat famous for saying "Pawn endings are to chess as putting is to golf." He died playing ( Read more... )

http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/students/baker/SouthPoleFoucault.html

You will either find that really fucking cool or completely esoteric and dull. I'm in the first camp.

If you're going to have decent lives you've got to know and know properly. None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll ( Read more... )

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