Tuesday, August 25

and you were a liar

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And you were a liar, O blue March day.

Bright sun lanced fire in the heavenly bay;

    But what black Boreas wrecked her? he

Came equipped, deadly-electric,

 

7

A beetling baldbright cloud thorough England

Riding: there did stores not mingle? and

    Hailropes hustle and grind their

Heavengravel? wolfsnow, worlds of it, wind there?


Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Loss of the Eurydice"

Monday, August 10

semicolons

 MCGREGOR: You didn’t ask me about semicolons.

INTERVIEWER: About who?

MCGREGOR: Semicolons.

INTERVIEWER: Oh, no. And I never will.

Time Marches On: An Interview with Jon McGregor