the prison-house of language

February 27, 2005

"Wallace Stevens says: the moon follows the sun like a French translation of a Russian poet."
"That's twee!"

The campus bathroom says:

STOP DELUDING YOURSELF
AND
SEWING IMPERIALIST LIE$

And I thought buying that secondhand Singer would liberate me from the textile indusrty. Damn it!

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.