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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea –
November 11, 2013 |
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Hungry, pitiless, murderous sea!
Oh, what wild shrieks hath terror sent o'er thee!
How many millions, dead,
Lie waiting in thy oozy bed,
Till the last trumpet sound, and Death no more
Shall revel 'mid thy rage and maddening roar!
—Nicholas Michell, "Ocean's Changes" (1867)
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
February 5, 2013 |
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Our Favorite Asterisk of All Time?Check out the very special asterisk in this little verse from The Wonder Clock by Howard Pyle, 1887. It stands for the word gloom (in all fairness, how much clarity can we expect of gloominess?) even as it concentrates what little light there is into a gleam in a house cat's eye. Is the asterisk here a genuine example of visual poetry, or did the typesetter run out of space and improvise grandly? We don't care, as the result stands. (Note that we hunted down what would appear to be the web's only other gloomy asterisk, if only to give the cat's other eye a twinkle.)
"Asterisk + Gloom," a photo by Richard Weston, appears here in the context of literary analysis.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
December 4, 2011 |
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You can feel the pulse in the slipping away — Geof Huth |
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: "At times I had thought of writing poetry myself but getting words to rhyme with each other is difficult, like trying to drive a herd of turkeys and kangaroos down a crowded thoroughfare and keep them neatly together without looking in shop windows. There are so many words, and they all mean something." —Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
July 5, 2011 |
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A hand without fingerprints still leaves a smudge — Geof Huth |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
May 25, 2011 |
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For an acquaintance who dreams of lazy afternoons in a hammock but whose backyard sports just a single tree, here's a spoof of a poem by dear cousin Emily: To make a hammock It takes some netting and one tree. Netting and a tree And reverie. The reverie alone will do If trees are few. |
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Puzzles and Games :: Tic Tac Toe Story Generator –
December 20, 2009 |
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Here's our translation of the Xs and Os of this book cover, using The X-O-Skeleton Story Generator. As we don't know the order of play, we read the letters row by row, left to right: Round kissing sun
Reassurance magnifying, shadowing
Marking the spot of one(ness)
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