the penguin that hated the gods

There's more of Browning in Stevens than either would like to admit.

Arcs, sets, circles.

17.

modernity
set tumbling
like a broken helicopter

the mind reels
having seen two inches

The guardians of Richardson's China Town.

"But there was also a part of his mind which was always escaping from his control and playing tricks; fixing on his memory meaningless things as if they were symbols, and then haunting him with them as mysteries." --Chesterton

(via Cory Doctorow on Twitter)