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The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand....
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Final Soliloquy of the Internal Paramour by...
Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good.
This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous. It is in that thought that we collect ourselves, Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:
Within a single thing, a single shawl Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth, A light, a power, the...
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Is This a Pandemic Being Born? - By Laurie Garrett... →
H7N9 Flu in China is starting to look scary.
Timeline of Events
Feb. 19
First male patient, 87, became ill with H7N9 (Medical News Today).
Feb. 27
Second male patient, 27, became ill with H7N9 (Medical News Today).
March 4
First male patient dies (Medical News Today).
March 9
First female patient, 35, from Anhui province became ill with H7N9 (Telegraph).
March 10
Initial report of over...
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March 2013
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“I believe that in the end, history will record this period in our country’s...”
– Charles Blow, The Supreme Court and Unfolding History
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One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring...
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“A culture in which women are expected to remain virgins until marriage is a rape...”
– EJ Graff, cited by Tara Culp-Ressler in ’Kindergartners Shouldn’t Be Taught Sex Ed’ — And Other Myths Endangering America’s Youth
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New Theme At Underpaidgenius.com
This blog is becoming a different place now that I have decided that economics and social criticism have to inform my work at stoweboyd.com, so I’ve changed the theme to better direct what is here.
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Thinking About A Son, Traveling
A single Guinness stands mute in The fridge, proxy for his footfalls, his hard way of walking, his hard walk shaking the radiators. He’s in Moscow by now, and then Prague for some weeks, learning some lessons, and then off to parts unknown. I thought of the Szymborska lines,
May our child grow and be well. Let him be happy from time to time and leap over abysses. Let his heart...
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Excerpt from “The Hammock” by Tom Sleigh
Do you feel that wobble of earth’s axis, space whirling past the ice-capped pole? The pines like judges stare down at us:
What should we recant, here, tonight, as if we’d only just begun: Off-center already, losing equilibrium? The world-soul moving
through the strung-out stars moves in threads that creak and moan, breathes between your mouth and mine. Pushing me away, you bring
me...
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Bittman's Fried Asparagus With Caesar Dressing
Fried Asparagus With Caesar Dressing - Recipes - The New York Times
INGREDIENTS
2 egg yolks
1 small clove garlic, grated or finely minced
2 teaspoons red-wine vinegar
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste
12 anchovy fillets, minced
1 teaspoon fish sauce (nam pla), optional
A few dashes Tabasco
1 cup olive oil
Lemon juice to taste, plus lemon wedges for serving
Oil for shallow...
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Bittman's Avocado With Soy-Lime Vinaigrette
Avocado With Soy-Lime Vinaigrette - Recipes - The New York Times
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup lime juice
1/2 cup dark soy sauce (or usukuchi, white soy sauce, if you have it)
1 small clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon minced ginger
2 3-inch pieces kombu (kelp), wiped with a damp rag
1/2 cup bonito flakes
1 cup grapeseed oil
2 ripe avocados
Coarse salt
Togarashi or black pepper
Toasted sesame...
February 2013
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“Nature has never been silent for me. Nature whispers in my ear all the time, and...”
– Sharman Apt Russell
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“The belief that Africa’s ill-prepared armies and France can make the problem of...”
– Nasser Weddady via NY Times
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The Fall of Rome by W H Auden
The piers are pummelled by the waves; In a lonely field the rain Lashes an abandoned train; Outlaws fill the mountain caves. Fantastic grow the evening gowns; Agents of the Fisc pursue Absconding tax-defaulters through The sewers of provincial towns. Private rites of magic send The temple prostitutes to sleep; All the literati keep An imaginary friend. Cerebrotonic Cato may Extol the...
First Post From My iPad Mini Using The Logitech...
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“The truth is that America’s partisan divide runs much deeper than even...”
– Paul Krugman, The Ignorance Caucus
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