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This post is to test an email obfuscation plugin I just wrote. test 1. test 2.

Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on an English translation of the Codex Vaticanus that’s more faithful than the King James text (especially one that might, somehow, preserve textual form)? My first impulse was to ask if there’s a version rendered with modern Greek script as opposed to entirely unreadable (to me) [...]

Strange, convoluted dream over the last four hours. I only remember bits and pieces, and as I said, it’s convoluted, but here goes: I go to a party in Boston. Hannah lives in a totally different apartment, which appears to be attached to a parking garage. Our grad school friend Christa comes to the party [...]

I spent a good hunk of today (as in, all day) hacking the WordPress comments system, because I couldn’t find a threaded comments plugin that did what I wanted it to. I think I’ve gotten it down now, though it remains to be seen how well it will work. I also added a “friends page,” [...]

It is difficult to find a definition of free verse that doesn’t center on what it isn’t. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, for example, describes free verse as “the prosody of avoidance of meter.” Doesn’t tell you much. It’s as if free verse’s identity is entirely reactive – it’s an absence, a [...]