Oh in the deep blue night
     The fountain sang alone;
It sang to the drowsy heart
     Of a satyr carved in stone.
The satyr's voice you might ( Read more... )

When God upon his potter's wheel ( Read more... )

Initiation is the severest form of frattery.

Keats at one point journeyed to America to ranch turkeys. Having received a large sum with little supervision attached, from an aunt who was a sleeping partner in the venture, he was able to indulge in his usual fantastic whims, calling his prize birds after successive presidents. One day his senior labourer suggested renaming not a bird, but ( Read more... )

And Sittingbourne is a compost heap.

Among all the terrible things which will happen this century, perhaps the least is that in 2040 Shrove Tuesday and St Valentine's Day will occur at the same time. It is possible that human ingenuity will, before that date, have come up with a way to make pancakes into indulgent and romantic food. But it is surely safer to act now to avert the ( Read more... )

Behemwoth (n.) A behemoth made by BMW.

The abstract of the talk offered by Olga N. Bushmakina of the philosophy department of Udmurt State University to the European Logic Colloquium 1998.Hermeneutics and postmodernism are offered the problem of basis of being in two different approaches. Absolute positiveness of being is determined through the ontological difference or ambiguousness of ( Read more... )

"I'm fed to the back teeth!" yelled Tom full-throatedly.

This used to be available online among the recommended reading for an economics Masters course at one of the London colleges. God knows why. Rescued while I can still find it.

( Creation of the World )