As debauchery often causes weakness and sterility in the body, so the intemperance of the tongue makes conversation empty and insipid.
Plutarch, Parallel Lives – Lycurgus
Daniel Crooks, An Embroidery of Voids
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We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
John Fowles, The Magus
Vocabulary: Fisher Fowles Edition
chapfallen: having one’s jaw (chap) hanging out of exhaustion or disappointment
chlorotic: lacking coloration due to lack of iron, in either plants and people
picquet: also piquet, a two-player game played with a 32-card deck
osculation: in mathematics, to touch and share a tangent; to kiss
paregoric: medicinal opium originally prescribed to children
stylobate: a continuous base for a series of columns
rodomontade: a boast, or to speak or act boastfully
contumacious: stubborn or resistant to authority
algedonic: relating to both pleasure and pain
carious: decayed, esp. bones or teeth
apaugasma: a brightly shining light
puteal: a classical-style wellhead
batrachian: toadlike or froglike
desipience: folly or silliness
slammakin: loose or untidy
nacreous: pearlescent
Albrecht Altdorfer – Countryside of Wood with St George Fighting the Dragon
Radar image of Antarctica’s glacier-covered Gamburtsev mountains
Beauty is a form of genius — is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tennis – “Never Work For Free”
Ritual in Repeat
If this record had released in June rather than September, “Never Work For Free” would have been the Song of the Summer, no question. It’s Madonna-tier Pop with, as you can see, a capital P. You can’t unhear it, and you won’t want to. (insound)