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Infinite Mall #2

The Flaws Nervous parents know this, they saw the doors       When young the featureless gray slabs open On other malls, but really there are flaws       In the world, there's only one mall, stolen

thatwhichfalls #3

  "But, in the end, I do have to choose and I have to choose that which falls closest to how I see the painting.  The winner this year is from Michael Harris from down around Philadelphia for his title:   Persist (All We Know). " Redtree Times deciduous 1680s, from L. deciduus " that which falls off," from decidere "to fall off," from de- "down" (see de-) + cadere "to fall". Originally with reference to leaves, petals, teeth, etc.; specific sense of "trees whose leaves fall off" (opposed to evergreen ) is from 1778 offal late 14c., "waste parts, refuse," from off + fall; the notion being that which "falls off" the butcher's block; perhaps a translation of M.Du. afval . Online Etymology Dictionary

WIPP Exhibit, Message to 12,000 AD

  This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. This place is a message and part of a system of messages. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. Sandia National Laboratories  

Red, Part 1- The Pilot

We hit the ground running, popping open the chopper door as soon as it touched the ground and leaping out. As we raced across the tarmac I briefly stopped and looked back. The helicopter was a collection of yellow and black planes, simple, stripped down, like a childs' toy. A slight leak of Red from the bottom glittered in the sunset like a tear of blood. The pilot, huge eyes barely visible under some kind of mask, waved slowly at me. "That one needs a bath" I thought to myself. I rushed to catch up with Steve, dodging the shallow pools of Red on the runway. I had now wish for even a small transformation or revelation right then. We got a cab and once on the back seat resumed our argument. "Look Giles, it was all running fine out there. There's no need for human intervention in the drilling process at all." "A regular supply of Red is too critical to be left to puppets. The only way to run that operation without human pre...

Infinite Mall #1

The Mall Take the mall of your choice, the fountains fall       The plants breathe, a retail jungle, predators The credit departments want you to fail       Painted birds flock near Hot Topic, see doors

Cock-a-doodle-doo

Cock a doodle do! My dame has lost her shoe, My master's lost his fiddlestick, And knows not what to do Etymology Onomatopoetic. Noun cock-a-doodle-doo ( plural   cock-a-doodle-doos ) The cry of the rooster. Interjection cock-a-doodle-doo The cry of the rooster. Wiktionary The first two lines were used in a murder pamphlet in England, 1606, which seems to suggest that children sang those lines, or very similar ones, to mock cockerels (roosters in US) "crow". The first full version recorded was in Mother Goose's Melody , published in London around 1765. Wikipedia (Background for the story " London Bridge is Falling Down ")

MallarmĂ© - Un coup de dĂ©s jamais n’abolira le hasard

Cerith Wyn Evan - apres Stephane Mallarme, 2008 UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS                                                                                  QUAND BIEN MĂŠME LANCÉ DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES                                                                ...