Bunnies At Meigetsu-in (明月院), Kamakura. The Temple Is Associated With The Moon (meigetsu Means

i have this writing style i like to call “uncertain.” it’s where the narrator isn’t really sure what they’re talking about either

Sometimes your song can’t start until you go some place to reflect.

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The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, October 7, 1963

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is - we’re here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.“

Let’s all get up and move around a bit right now… or at least dance.

- from an interview by David Brancaccio, NOW (PBS)

Literary facts:

The premise of the second part of Don Quixote is that the protagonist is on a quest to beat up a guy who wrote an unflattering fanfic about him

The Tale of Genji contains a chapter with no text to reflect the fact that the viewpoint character has just died

At one point the framing narrative of Frankenstein develops into a dude telling a story about a dude telling a story about a dude telling a story

Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2

The earliest names attributable to muscovite include Muscovy Glass, Cat Silver, and Lapis Specularis (stone mirror); these names appearing in texts in the seventeenth century and before. The stand-alone name 'Muscovite' was used as early as 1794 by Johann Gottfried Schmeisser in his System of Mineralogy and is derived from the term "Muscovy glass," which was in common use by that time. Muscovy Province in Russia yielded sheet mica for a variety of uses. Muscovite and sometimes similar species were earlier called mica (Phillips and Kersey, 1706), glimmer (Phillips and Kersey, 1706), and isinglass (1747 according to OED) but all of these terms are still in use to some degree.

the origin of Carol of the Bells, ukrainian folk song Shchedrik