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My favorite Salvatore Quasimodo.
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum.

Sunken Oboe

Chill, again an oboe utters
joy of everlasting leaves,
not mine, and disremembers
November 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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By thinking so much, I became echo and abyss.
By delving within, I made myself into many.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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The language of longing isn't in writing. It's a braille made of absent touching and skin
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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ESA/Hubble (@esa.int) images (May 16, 2019)

Gravitational interplay with NGC 4490 has transformed NGC 4485 into an irregular galaxy, forming a 25,000 light-year stream of bright knots and regions of star formation.

esahubble.org/images/heic1910a/
October 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Let’s get to work

🔗: linktr.ee/tomesandtext...
July 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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“It’s time to change the myth and the religion.”

- Carl Sagan
May 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
March 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
worth reading the entire thread
A French member of the European Parliament, center-left politician Raphael Glucksmann, is calling for the U.S. to return the Statue of Liberty — because America no longer represents the values that inspired France to present the statue as a gift.

The Statue of Liberty was originally gifted to…
March 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
chronic lymphocytic leukemia
. . . fact
November 22, 2024 at 4:55 PM