entire social life came to me?
i'd hope to awaken soon from the nightterror.
20091104
20091009
i have a sneaking suspicion
that this
might be the most illuminating webspace in the webspace.
I do not know what I now think,
I am pretty sure it is lame.
20090806
There is plenty of money
in the world
but there are damn few jobs an intelligent man can do without compromising himself intolerably.
-hst, The Proud Highway
20090724
fight to the death for my amusement
TV in space,
Much like pigs in space,
Further cements my belief that the best TV may be
Real-time newsfeed of the war to end all wars
on some other planet.
NIMBY, bitches.
Somewhere in space, this may all be happening right now.
20090622
Selah
This time I looked it up, hst:
Merriam Webster 10th Collegiate:
A term of uncertain meaning found in the Hebrew text of the Psalms and Habbakuk carried over untranslated into some English versions.
Compact OED 1981:
A Hebrew word, occurring frequently at the end of a verse in the Psalter and thrice in Hab. iii, by the LXX rendered [GREEK]; supposed to be a musical or liturgical direction of some kind, perhaps indicating pause or rest. Hence in various allusive uses (see quots.).
1530 tr. Bucer's Psalms iii. A 5, This worde Selah signifiyeth ye sentence before to be pond'red with a depe affecte, longe to be rested upon and the voyce there to be exalted. 1623 S. Ward Peace-off. (1624) 50 Record, not all and euery fauour, which is impossible, but the most memorable and thankworthy; putting a special Selah of thankes vpon them. 1826 Mrs. Browning Ess. Mind iI. 629 Then comes the Selah! and the voice is hush'd. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t iv, But you need not think I am going to tell you every time his popgun goes off, making a Selah of him whenever I want to chance the subject.
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I accept no further arguments about relative value of dictionaries.
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Selah.
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