I watched him struggle with the sea

[sovay]

I was nine-tenths of the way through shoveling my mother's driveway before it occurred to me that the flat-bladed gardening implement which I had been using to rowel up the frozen underlayer of slush from which the shovel just skidded off—it reminded me of a whaler's cutting spade—was conceivably some kind of hoe. I cannot tell if this means I will never have to settle my debts with Poseidon or if I have just incurred Demeter's eternal disappointment.

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[swan_tower]

Unrelated except that I just discovered this ten seconds ago and had to come squee at you: in looking up information on possible binary planet systems on Wikipeida, I discovered that you were the one to suggest the name "Vanth" for the moon of the dwarf planet Orcus. That is super awesome!

[sovay]

I discovered that you were the one to suggest the name "Vanth" for the moon of the dwarf planet Orcus. That is super awesome!

Thank you! Yes. It is something I am very proud of. I wrote that poem because of it.