¶ the incandescent subfusc wants a life away from greed and hypocrisy:

artificially peppy, chemically imbalanced, hardly easy, polyphonic colophon…

a seven second lag test 

Uhhhm, I'm just testing the speed of typing... does this speed things up?
Yeah, it does.

Maybe this is the guy who slows it all down.


So it was the word count which slowed everything down.


politics and the english language 

“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language.”


she carries a pearl in perfect condition 

she takes the blame, she covers the shame
removes the stain, it could be her name