December 2011
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The spring sea rising
and falling, rising
and falling all day
– Yosa Buson
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The moon likes secrets. And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her...
– Charles de Lint (via seabois)
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,...
– Edgar Allan Poe (via eccentric-queen)
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CEYX TELLS THE STORY OF DAEDALION
From Book XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
He had a daughter,
Chione; she was lovely, and she had
A thousand suitors, more or less, though hardly
Into her teens. It happened that one day
Apollo, coming back from Delphi, saw her,
And Mercury, coming back from Cyllene, saw her,
And when they saw, they wanted her. Apollo
Could wait till night, but Mercury, more eager,
Touched the...
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Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each...
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via seabois)
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Once on a time there were three princes, who had a step-sister. One day they all...
– The Three Princes and Their Beasts
Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book
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