#ralafferty

[graywyvern]

"You fear the earth, you fear rough ground and rocks, you fear moister earth and rotting flesh, you fear the flesh itself, all flesh is rotting flesh. If you love not rotting flesh, you love not at all." --R A Lafferty

[graywyvern]

( @nao4852 / colin hinz on fb)

Light my Fire.

"If you suppress a secret you must suppress the anti-secret also." --ibid

My Oulipo Year. "Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura (The Poem on Nature) supplied Oulipo with one of its key concepts in the 'clinamen', Lucretius’s Latin for the Greek klesis, 'a bending'. The term was rescued from obscurity by Alfred Jarry, who used it for the name of his Painting Machine in his novel Life and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician. For Oulipo, it represents a moment when a particular constraint is broken, usually for aesthetic reasons."

The Secret Plan of Canberra.

"Take care of the pigs. Two portly sows are trotting up behind this carriage, and a select party of half-a-dozen gentlemen hogs have just now turned the corner.

Here is a solitary swine lounging homeward by himself...and leads a roving, gentlemanly, vagabond kind of life, somewhat answering to that of our club-men at home. ...They are the city scavengers, these pigs. ...They are never attended upon, or fed, or driven, or caught, but are thrown upon their own resources in early life, and become preternaturally knowing in consequence." --Charles Dickens, American Notes, VI.

[graywyvern]

( @nao4852 / 9-eyes.com)

The Voices Beneath the Earth.

"Spilling hogs' blood is almost as tall a thing as spilling one's own." --"The Only Tune He Could Play"

Cyclic.

"winter sunset... on wind-barren meadows... cuckoo"

--@poem_exe

Kanganoulipo.

"And it is true that, in reading Eliot and Pound, we are sometimes visited by uneasy recollections of Ausonius, in the fourth century, composing Greek-and-Latin macaronics and piecing together poetic mosaics out of verses from Virgil." --Axel's Castle

"Instead of presenting a contemporary Britain haunted by elements of a forgotten past, The Weathermonger depicts a medieval Britain haunted by elements of forgotten modernity."

[graywyvern]

( @spaceliminalbot / via )

Anhedoniac's Scepter.

"The kindest man in the world assumes an incredible arrogance when he drives an automobile, and this arrogance will increase still further if the machine is allowed to develop greater power and sophistication." --"Interurban Queen"

Hot Box City.

"Ofdoctile, adj. having the qualities of blocking teaching" --@fantasticvocab

Reminiscing.

"Ah! at the close of the last century, the future seemed a thing tangible,—it was woven up in all men’s fears and hopes of the present. At the verge of that hundred years, Man, the ripest born of Time, (“An des Jahrhunderts Neige, Der reifste Sohn der Zeit.” “Die Kunstler.”) stood as at the deathbed of the Old World, and beheld the New Orb, blood-red amidst cloud and vapour,—uncertain if a comet or a sun." --Zanoni

[graywyvern]

( me / @archillect )

China's 21st launch in 2021.

"'The Lemmings came today,' said Toy Tonk, 'but only seven of them, and they were not at all in a panic. Nor are we, though perhaps we should be.' " --"And Name My Name"

"Strength and dignity are her clothing..."

i'm sorry you had to hear about this from the evolutionary psychologists

metallic green fly on my blue pen a moment

the new cerulean better than the old cerulean

morning shadows to teach & to un-teach

The Richest Man in Babylon.

"pebble moon sing the great river she remains alone"

--@poem_exe

[graywyvern]

( @boschbot / @nao4852 )

Silver & Green.

" 'I thought your stories were getting little too tall, McSkee. But if you're no more than forty years old, then your stories do not make sense.'

'Never said they did, John. You put unnatural conditions on a tale.' "

--"One at a Time"

Conlanging: The Movie.

the tiny drama · the insect-struggle with · in the background back up beep · of the garbage truck

Gloomy Sunday.

"To DISCONJURE someone is to release them from a magic spell." --@HaggardHawks

[graywyvern]

(via / via)

"Reaurent, adj. an indication of listening again" --@fantasticvocab

Juggalos Upset Over Emergence Of 'Clowncore' Scene.

"Light a candle directly in front of your automatic Glade spray air freshener that way every 9 minutes a fireball shoots across your living room table, intimidating your house guests, asserting your dominance in your domain" --@xiaolongbot

Rim of Morning.

"The ancients wondered why fallen pieces of the sky should always be dark rock-stuff and never sky-blue clear stuff. The answer is that it is only pieces of the night sky that ever fall, even though they may sometimes be most of the daytime in falling, such is the distance." --"Continued on Next Rock"

"There was a young lady of Prague..."

thole the idle veldt refuge there is none ever weigh your vote thole the idle veldt lightning's shy invite charred horizons known thole the idle veldt refuge there is none

"...one can’t help feeling that Perec may have felt a certain physical affinity with the mop-haired marsupials ..."

[graywyvern]

( me / @spaceliminalbot)

List of numeral systems.

airplane hum strong & descending as it fades

still i try to write something as certain

Of the Leaves that have Fallen. (Widerruf to a Stevens poem.) (More.)

"There is no law saying that the burlesque of a thing may not appear before the thing itself." --"Flaming Ducks and Giant Bread"

"Amazon has recently replaced its middle management and human resources workers with artificial intelligence to determine when a worker has outlived their usefulness and needs to be let go."

"[FYI, it's pronounced 'Cumpton-Burnit.']" --@IComptonBurnett