un regard oblique

4.1.03

"Creating means praying behind closed doors."

Murakami Kagaku (1888--1939)

3.1.03

"What kind of book is it?"

"It's a comic book actually, based on stuff I've published on the Internet."

"Oh? What's it about?"

"Well, it's basically just about these two guys in an office who talk on the phone all the time about the war on terrorism."

"Does it have a lot of cussing in it?"

"That's the one."

"We love that strip!"

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Already reeling from a stagnant economy and the illegal but widespread downloading of
copyrighted music from the Internet, the recording companies will now face a perfectly
legal influx of European recordings of popular works.
Copyright protection lasts only 50 years in European Union countries, compared with
95 years in the United States, even if the recordings were originally made and released in America.

your elbow, in that place
with no particular name. Erosion,
grain by grain...I can't make

you beautiful. It frightens me,
how little we miss, so close. Not a crumb.
What do you see

and not say, that I deceive myself I hide?

What love can't do...

Philip Gross
A Crumb
Verse Daily

2.1.03

that clockwise swirl on the shell of an eastbound snail is on its south side.

Beefheart van Vliet

1.1.03

space isn't dark, it's that there's nothing there to reflect the light, but the light is there, it's everywhere. the universe is a stunningly bright place, not dark at all.

The guqin, a seven-stringed zither, is China's oldest stringed instrument,
with a history of some 3000 years. Chinese music has a long history,
and its essence is best expressed on the guqin. In Imperial China,
a well educated scholar was expected to be skilled in four arts:

Qin (the guqin),

Qi (the game of Go),

Shu (calligraphy) and

Hua (painting).