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A few links of wildly varying importance:

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America — specifically, the US’s official “poverty level” is a lie, based on outdated conditions and assumptions. Depressing but explains a lot. (I suggest skipping down to the first heading.) (via??)

For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps (via)

World’s first film in ancient Sumerian released by Trinity College filmmakers. Available as an embed in the article. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel.
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For Poetry Monday:

The More Loving One, W.H. Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime
Though this might take me a little time.


From his collection Homage to Clio.

---L.

Subject quote from “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,” W.H. Auden.
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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means [staff profile] karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

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Essential life experience: having a twelve-year-old rant at you for 10 minutes about how the existence of sweet potatoes offends them.

---L.

Subject quote from Let’s Go Crazy, Prince and the Revolution.
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For Poetry Monday:

Stills, R.A. Ammons

I have nowhere
to go and

nowhere to go

when I get
back from there.


---L.

Subject quote from The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel.

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