invultuation (day 162)

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"It was in a time of plague that the woman who would come to be known as Julian was born and grew up, and it was in a time of plague that she was beset by a dreadful illness that had claimed so many other lives."

"And of the old time nothing will be said, because nothing will be known." --Ligotti

"...I’m set
On something vast...."

in the boulevards
in the words themselves
his old doom crept

how could he delay
by homegrown wizardry

eyebright nor spectacles
none in the boulevards
none that came before

in the words themselves
his old doom crept

Various neography samples from Aureum Linguae.

"...sillage--the word the French use for the light drift of scent that precedes a person into the room, and that follows in a person's wake, barely discernible and intriguing." --Deirdre Heekin, Libation (2009)

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