"Words can be tiresome as a swarm of insects. They can prick and buzz. Words can be no more than a series of farts; or on the other hand they can be adamantine, obdurate, inviolable, stone upon stone"
Muzzlehatch, in Titus Alone, by Mervyn Peake
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"an almost savage torpor", or, plus ca change
Wordsworth, from the Prelude to the Lyrical Ballads, written and published in 1800 The Seventeenth Century is barely over and here is Will...
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love to listen to this stuff but I'm not sure I really understand it beyond "that's a bunch of cool weird noises in a pattern...
Lost Talking Heads lyrics circa 1979/80?
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