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

[larryhammer]

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.

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

...But no—I repent me of some lowercase letters...

heh! This is splendid. Thank you.

[larryhammer]

It is indeed.

Envy me not, then,
O my friends, my readers;
Though the Prophetic Strain echoes in each line I write,
Though you covet said Strain for your own,
Heed me and flee.

---L.