How I have been doing this long weekend is not very well, in ways generically and specifically disheartening, but it has interested me to discover that while I have to do it by hand with pencil and paper, as if it's muscle memory rather than mental recall, I can still scan classical Greek sufficient to fake a Homeric epithet for our Hestia, slayer of towels: μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ τέκνου Ἥρας μακτροφόνοιο. (She sang to us earlier this evening of her triumph over the roll we were still using.) The attentive reader may note that I am relying heavily on both Attic and epic correption and an eighth-century audience would think I didn't know my theogony, but it makes me feel better.
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- 1: And those who can remember when the night sky was a tapestry
- 2: Can't I take my own binoculars out?
- 3: Distant as a dream of the cradle on this lonesome beach
- 4: Plates will shift and the earth will groan
- 5: Probably not going to leave the slightest trace in the wake when it's my turn
- 6: It's only eight, right?
- 7: If it's a moment in time, how come it feels so long?
- 8: It's time to change partners again
- 9: אַ ניקל פֿאַר זיי, אַ ניקל פֿאַר מיר
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