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Blog Name: A Secret History
Url: http://chalepa-ta-kala.livejournal.com/
Language: English
Topics: classics, twitter, steampunk
Description: And again, when in the long course of time the story seems to belong to a rather distant past, I am afraid that I shall be regarded as a mere teller of fairy tales or listed among the tragic poets. ~Procopius, circa AD 500
Popularity: 44 Followers

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My heart, old hunger motor... (30 October 2009)
• A doubting of cyclops. Supernatural Collective Nouns: http://wondermark.com/566/ (via @malki)
Via bromius. Brill, dude.
"But here's the thing. Horace didn't say that. 'Carpe diem' doesn't mean seize the day—it means something gentler and more sensible. 'Carpe diem' means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be 'cape diem,' if my school Latin serves. No R. Very different piece of advice.What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things—so that the day's stalk or stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a thinness, and a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point
It's coming...it's coming...it's coming...
When autumn leaves start to fall...Happy Autumnal Equinox, my friends.

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