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dayonfire

Quarantined in October

Feb 08, 2006 05:30

I had a disease last fall. It took that month to quarantine it. I tried to kill it entirely, but I know its stronger than that.

October 2005I have a disease today, THE disease in fact that I stave off daily only through exhausting vigilance. The disease proper is inextricably bound with its medicine. I'm sure description can only be approached ( Read more... )

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phlegming February 9 2006, 00:53:02 UTC

I really enjoyed this, especially in the context of what I've said recently about modern American scholastic poetry. I must say, though, old boy, this sounds like a different Michael Gause than the one I usually read. Maybe I don't know you that well. Maybe, we don't know ourselves very well at all. Could that be a symptom of the disease? Or the cause? Inscribed in stone at the base of the temple to Apollo at Delphi, were the words: "Know thyself". Maybe they had something there ( ... )