doppelranger {day 136)

"...a dam that is so massive in scale that it has actually slowed down the earth’s rotation."

"Ludwig had an obsession with donkeys in those days. He would always say 'Let us follow the mule, if only I were fast enough!' Waismann got so bored and annoyed that one day he mentioned to his girlfriend in Vienna that he was sick and tired of Ludwig's problem of mule-following. Waismann's girlfriend misheard and told Schlick and Camp about Wittgenstein's famous problem of rule-following. That was how the famous problem was born." --Plant and Baumann, "The Wittgenstein Archive," in: Philosophy Now #58 (Nov/Dec '06)

"...empty flat sizzle not to be tuned/ out..."

now · not yet murdered
by the hatred of the stars
Zamenhof
raggedest Homer · consigned to rishima

hogged streamer privy to Lord Moloch
goatherds merge into Judas
regathered smog walks

fried fugu
garnished with a flagon of Malmsey
these dagger theorems · at the limits of faith

now not yet murdered
intersection of sett & Sacla

"That night each and every one of them dreamt of that green light..."

" 'I respond to three questions,' stated the augur. 'For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.' " --Tales of the Dying Earth

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