“ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ”
H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”
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Mamihlapinatapai is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes “a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.” (via Martin)
“ It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon. ”
Edgar Allen Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
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Chess Set of the Day: Linda and John Meyers’ Type Chess Set, created using, among other things, an old type tray the couple found at a garage sale.
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Chess Set of the Day: Linda and John Meyers’ Type Chess Set, created using, among other things, an old type tray the couple found at a garage sale.
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Oh, my. Yes, please.
“Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine—
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers;
And all the flowers were mine.Ah, dream too bright to last;
”
Ah, starry Hope, that didst arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from out the Future cries
“Onward!”—but o’er the Past
(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies,
Mute—motionless—aghast!
From Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Assignation”
Debora Drower, Har Mar Theatre on the night before its demolition, Roseville Minnesota, 2006
Har Mar Mall was built in 1961, and derived its name from the couple that owned it, Harold and Marie Slawik. It’s where I saw ‘Natural Born Killers’, where I bought my first copy of ‘Lolita’, and from where Har Mar Superstar took his name.
I worked in Roseville for a year or so and saw a few shows at this theatre. Last thing I saw there, I think, was Attack of the Clones.
