Oh look, it's Dietrich

Dim, and die tonight?
Absurdly, my eyes can only see the arc
Wide, whited fields, a way unframed at last
Trampled snow is the only rose.
XVI. Laying a Ghost: The Jeannette and the Fram
From point to point of meaning—open? closed?—
Are muffled into silence that refuses
A kind of snow, which hesitates
Sits at the limit of a kind of world
V. The Dutch in the Arctic
This drizzling three-day January thaw,
Partly stone, partly the absence of stone,
Wheezing ravens, when
Pierced by the mist that fades away,
VI. Smeerenburg and the Whale-Oil Rush
To pick up even the quickening of wind
Silence. Your way of being. Your way of seeing
Preface to the 1948 Edition
Some stubborn sprouts up through the stubble hay

(New favorite spam subject line:)



any other president:



(yes, please)

The subject line: "The only real cure for we ght loss."

Too...many...jokes...

Okay first of all, in this culture, is anyone really looking for a cure for weight loss?? With apologies to those rare few who are underweight and have trouble maintaining body mass, to whom I doubt that this message was directed.

Secondly...notice that the subject line itself is already experiencing some weight loss.

And, without getting too punny about it...once you start losing 'i's, the rest of your sense is sure to follow...

"Have you ever wondered how the rich and famous lose it?"

You mean like Sean Penn going psycho on that reporter? Tell me more!

Now, instead of just random word strings in spam, they're putting random LATIN word strings!

These lines appeared in the midst of the usual English lexigraphic rubble; anyone got a translation?


obsisteret aeris corpus, aeris huius, qui supra terram est, quominus

maneas, hoc considero. transcendi enim partes eius, quas habent et
ubi nisi apud te firma securitas? tristitia rebus amissis contabescit

non fuistit, verum quis dabit vobis? et si in alieno fideles non


nec vi nec insidiis leo et draco: neque enim respondebit illa nihil se

mecum effluxerant - forte duodecim anni - ex quo, ab undevicensimo

Okay, Contusion G. Incessent was pretty damn funny. And I'm still quite fond of good ol' Squish H. Ustinov. But the latest in the litany of what I can only imagine are names randomly constructed from a massive database of words to send me word of porn and penis enlargement pills takes the proverbial cake out for dinner and dancing, then tears its clothes off and has its way with it.

Given my current reading material and my assessment thus far of its titular patriarch, my new LJ name, at least until I finish said work, is most definitely:

Crabbier O. Karamazov.

This morning, in my inbox, was this:

With the subject line, Re: Guten Tag! :))

Good morning, campers :)
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them
Disease is a vital expression of the human organism
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them


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A software ad led into with bad jokes and proverbs! Is this like the strange advertising movement afoot wherein the actual thing they're selling remains opaque but the ad is just so damned inneresting that you watch anyway?

Oh, and the best part:

The message is from my good friend, Squish H. Ustinov.

The subject line read: Having Model Looks.

Inside was a textbox saying "Unsub," and beneath that, the following words of wisdom:

clay bimetallism slurp haberdashery intestate = genetic meat turnery blow syllabi onto = authenticate feminine engineer davidson floridian footnote = parisian glean contrition spare rebellion hutchinson = bullock rutabaga phone ditzel catchword doorman = turtleneck transference accelerometer memphis oregano annoy = canadian homicide auctioneer threw herdsman clifford = authoritative befall guthrie moreover cursory contrast = ponderous adipic staley smudgy mesenteric sheet = hallucinate cashew bronx vacuolate decadent materiel



Damn, I wish I could write like that.