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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

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🦋 Lines and pairs of lines

Do you have a favorite line or couple of lines of a poem, that serve to communicate in microcosm the sense (however loosely or impressionistically defined) of the containing poem? I'd love if you would post them in comments.

A couple to get things started, here and in comments...

...when we
called them Sodomites then,
all we meant by it
was neighbor.
--What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't a Pillar of Salt)
He spoke of a taste like olives, of the flavor in her breasts,
in hers who never aged but who had brought forth many daughters
each with olive nipples
--Breakfast
Don't freak,
in this house
no-one yet has died.
--A House at Mount Irazu

posted morning of Saturday, March 22nd, 2014
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And we stood there in the middle of existence
Dazzled by the white paraffin of lunch.

--Lunch

posted afternoon of March 22nd, 2014 by The Modesto Kid

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