“When a dog snarls, throw a morsel into his mouth.”

[larryhammer]

Links, links.

Poems William Carlos Williams Revised After Being Told By His Agent To Do More Plums Content. Bonus: I Will Alarm Islamic Owls. (via, which has more goodies in comments)

The story of the infortuante dictionary scam. (via)

More Sumerian proverbs. (via, where a comment corrects the grammar of one of the obscure translations)

The dog understands: "Take it!" It does not understand: "Put it down!"

and

The quick one hid, the strong one fled; the voluble one succeeded in getting into the palace.

---L.

Subject quote from UET 6/2 306.

Comments

[swan_tower]

Very belatedly (I've been so behind on blogs) -- the "I Will Alarm Islamic Owls" one was adorable, but "Skinny Domicile" by Emily Dickinson is actually kind of excellent!

[larryhammer]

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