"i tip on alligators/ and little rattlesnakers/ but i'm another flavor/ something like a terminator"

Infographic of the week: Deaths in the Iliad. (via)

So spoke Fitzgerald’s Persian bard,
And the people of Victoria heard him and sighed,
And thought unto themselves “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity,”
And turned again to contemplate, now sad, their railway timetables.

—Alan Jacobs, "On the Recent Publication of Kahlil Gibran’s Collected Works" (via)

Bork bork bork! (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Tightrope," Janelle Monáe.