"But cannot I create? Cannot I form? Cannot I fashion forth Another world, another universe, To overbear and crumble this to nought? Where is another chaos? Where?"

Stiff scholars and the hotly amorous Will in their ripeness equally admire Powerful, gentle cats, … Within their potent loins are magic sparks, And flakes of gold, fine sand, are vaguely seen Behind their mystic eyes, gleaming like stars. — “Cats,” Baudelaire

W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety (happy monday)

T.S. Eliot, every line is magic

🎉 Congratulations to Ellen Truxaw Bistline, who is awarded SEL's volume 61 Monroe Kirk Spears Award for her article "Realism, Initially"! See the award announcement in SEL's newest issue (62.4) bit.ly/4fFLnME & read "Realism, Initially" Project MUSE bit.ly/4hJ8aJo

We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 5 medieval cats.

Trust literatures, not individual papers

just built a house, and then i ate it. my roommates helped. (gingerbread)

these just might be the most amazing and ridiculous sculptures ever: http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/micro-sculptor-willard-wigan

okay, what on earth is the 'whuffie bank'?

concerning the spiritual in indie rock: http://www.believermag.com/exclusives/?read=article_berman

@ruthmccann Great piece! Write more!!! It would be for the betterment of humankind (or something along those lines).

in search of lost time

what exactly happens on dark and stormy nights?

@ruthmccann totally feel your pain

@ruthmccann sigh. the best part about the whole 'buzz' thing is that my only friends on it are english professors