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New Lyrics to Old Tune Stuck in My Head
Broadway Melody It's a hot day, it's a fraught day, it's a day you think about the ought way; it's a not-bray, it's a caught lay; Mister Stranger, it's called love. It's a…
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I do not care at all for empire [by Elizabeth Myhr]
I do not care at all for empire but my dreams keep building a tower keep building the same sentence the sentence that begins we are headed the tower grants an irregular…
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Modern Mongolian Literature in Seven Days – Part 6: T-Ö Erdenetsogt [by Simon Wickham-Smith]
T-Ö Erdenetsogt (b1971 who, like yesterdays hero Bavuudorj, is heavily influenced by Buddhism, was one of the cofounders of the BISHÜBI (an acronym for three words which roughly translate as "worshipping wisdom") movement during…
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Triskedekaphobia by David Lehman
It's Friday the 13th and I wonderhow the superstition got started.I'd always thought it was becausethere were thirteen diners at theLast Supper but I recently saw aa documentary about the KnightsTemplar according to which…
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etymology for poets [by Simon Wickham-Smith]
here is by far one of the most addictive sites on the internet. Sergey Starostin was one of the greatest linguists of his day and worked extensively in the reconstruction of a number of…
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Wayne Curtis on Cocktails
Wayne Curtis has a neat piece on cocktails, "Spirits of the Dead," in the current (April 2009) issue of The Atlantic. The article includes a recipe for the "Aviation of fame and fable. For…
