“waterside saloons / And the pubs with punk pianos grinding out their last year’s tunes”

Sometimes there’s slantwise links between my links, and sometimes they’re just random:

Homeric limericks by Emily Wilson, translator of the Odyssey. (via)

There was a young man called Telemachus
who was bullied and in a dilemma ’cause
he missed his lost dad
and his mom made him mad
and he almost got killed by Eurymachus.

The Size of Space. (via)

Superhero whose secret identity is just staggeringly obvious, and everybody “knows”, but in spite of countless people’s best efforts, nobody can actually prove it. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from The Three Ships, C. Fox Smith.