Today I went for a walk --


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( Seed of extinct date palm sprouts after 2,000 years. )

( Britain's oldest shoe was a size 10. )

I have once more come to the conclusion that I am dying -- tres mechant!

( Exploding Toads Baffle Scientists. )

To George Gordon, Lord Byron
Conjuring spirits in Casanova's closet

My good sir,

I write to you from within a veritable deluge. The veranda is awash, lightening flares overhead, & my umbrella has lately taken flight -- it is most romantic -- & one might even be prompted to forget that one has been the brunt of such affrontery of late. There ( Read more... )

( Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Still Popular. )

Paranoid Poetics: Byron, Schreber, Freud, by Andrew Elfenbein

( A second poem by Mary Oliver. )

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