"Lament alone still learns: she all night long / counts with dainty hands the ancient hurts."

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On the Museum of Failed Products and living life as a glass half empty.

I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup.

We Are All Confident Idiots.

---L.

Subject quote from Sonnets to Orpheus I.8, Rainer Maria Rilke.