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POEM 9: The Geese, Lisa Russ Spaar
THE GEESEJust as God is not my sorrow ( Read more... ) -
umberto eco on cliches
Umberto Eco wrote, “Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.”
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zagajewski from 180 more
LONG AFTERNOONS
Adam Zagajewski, trans. Clare Cavanagh
Those were the long afternoons when poetry left me.
The river flowed patiently, nudging lazy boats to sea.
Long afternoons, the coast of ivory.
Shadows lounged in the streets, haughty manikins in shopfronts
stared at me with bold and hostile eyes.
Professors left their schools with vacant faces,
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a man walks into a bar and says:
Boot Theory
Richard Siken
A man walks into a bar and says:
Take my wife-please. So you do ( Read more... ) -
the only three requirements....
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because now all i do is post links:
"Well, I guess if you want to put it into mathematical terms you'd square the square. But you can't take a pencil and draw it the way you can the first three. I know it's got something to do with Einstein and time. I guess maybe you can call the fourth dimension Time ( Read more... ) -
because the world is not a ridiculous place at all
So far there is no indication that any of Comcast's customers' personal or private information has been jeopardized. But the incident serves as a reminder of how vulnerable users of Web e-mail can be. Security experts recommend that users change their passwords frequently. Ideally, people should change them once a week. If that seems too difficult ( Read more... ) -
where quantum mechanics dominates classical gravity
There is strong evidence that the area of any surface limits the information content of adjacent spacetime regions, at 10^(69) bits per square meter. We review the developments that have led to the recognition of this entropy bound, placing special emphasis on the quantum properties of black holes. The construction of light-sheets, which associate ( Read more... ) -
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too exhausted to sleep. how, i ask you, how?