Government and Binding

I should learn bookbinding.

List of Inexplicable Contents of the World
#1. Silk Flowers
In truth, this should be: "Silk Flowers Under 3 Feet Tall"; no stand-alone flower need justify its existence.
Unless it is wedgewood blue.

Sometimes dogs gather dust in their fur and begin to smell like the insides of vacuum cleaners.

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"Mystery, in Crete, was made plain to all, no one tried to hide it. The 'unnameable things' that abounded in Attica were laid open to everybody. But there was no sense of challenge about this" (9).

"But as generation followed generation, metamophosis became more difficult, and the fatal nature of reality, its irreversibility, all the more evident. . . . If the power of metamorphosis was to be maintained, there was no alternative but to invent objects and generate monsters" (12). Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony