In the gaps in between times leapt their desire

I am tired to the point that I probably shouldn't be answering e-mail today, much less leaving the house to meet up with spatch after his matinée as planned, but I ran into some great links:

1. I will need to reconfigure all my metaphors if it turns out that osteocalcin rather than adrenaline drives the fight-or-flight response, but I love the image of the skeleton necessarily involved in the process of freaking out, like one of those pre-Code cartoons where your bones jump out of your skin in shock.

2. Leo Varadkar's double-speaking allusion to Athene was worthy of Odysseus himself. (Ireland is having a great week for language. See also the news that leprechauns might be Roman.)

3. Courtesy of C. S. E. Cooney: Alba Cid, "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or The Sacrifice of the Pfeilstörchen."

4. I had no idea a Yiddish socialist parody of "Give My Regards to Broadway" had ever existed, and yet: Jane Peppler & Randy Kloko, "Rayst arop di shleser." Once again, it's not like robber barons have gone out of fashion.

5. Matthew Cheney appreciates Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Flint Anchor (1954) and makes a really good case that I would, too.