"WHY ARE YOU STANDING OUT HERE IN THE COLD?" A lovely little confection. I note that Ratty and I have a bunch of these... although the only ones I can think of right now are based on people thinking I'm stupid!

Link via the Rattus.

PRIORITIES. Via the Rattus. Several of the other ones she links are also great, e.g. "Destiny."

A novel of Dostoevsky's is not a tranquil, smoothly developing episode, but a collection of the fifth acts of many tragedies.
--Dmitriy Merezhkovsky, somewhere, I got this from the Rat

HOW DO YOU SAY "WOOT" IN BRITISH?: Go congratulate the Rattus!!!

(more blogging soon btw)

THOMAS MANN ON THE GROTESQUE AS ANTI-BOURGEOIS STYLE. Oooh, shiny.