musings from a dead world

Writings

Whispers of a dead world, etched in fading ink.

  • Spring *is* coming

    Spring *is* coming

    Is it so small a thingTo have enjoy’d the sun,To have lived light in the spring,To have loved, to have thought, to have done;To have advanc’d true friends, and beat down baffling foes? – Matthew Arnold, “Empedocles on Etna” (1852) I’ve spent my previous evening and a portion of today with my comrades, discussing organizing

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