Ostraneniemandsland

" I have a low tech job in a high tech industry - I am a satellte dish washer. I use the antenna to play chess against a mars orbiter that has fritz installed. I have 2 wins, 5 losses, and 1 draw. I get about a thousand HBO and DirectTV channels with this. I am part of the SETI group. I sent 1.e4 and waiting for a response from the aliens. There are about 40 more antennas behind me. I have to shovel snow off them each winter." --Bill Wall, at Chess.com

Crazy.

"Stands the troubled dream beside" --Housman

Ballardian Earthworks.

"The unspeakability of nature is the very possibility of language." --James P Carse

Winter in America.

(via 9eyes on tumblr)

Words damaged by the Cultural Revolution.