"A god / ... bade betwixt their shores to be / The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea."

[larryhammer]

Sometimes the YouTube random-walk takes you from koto to taiko: a kids' troupe sends off a cruise ship in Nagasaki part 1, part 2. Bonus link: a high school troupe winning a national competition despite being afflicted with bad camerawork. (Hello, intensity. If anyone admitted to crushing on the young woman in the front center, I wouldn't judge.)

Gustave Doré's illustrations for Poe's famous bird poem. (via)

"Because" because reasons. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "To Marguerite: Continued," Matthew Arnold.

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[larryhammer]

Hello, intensity!