Quod me alit me extinguit.
That which nourishes me extinguishes me.
In that ten minutes before all the colour bleeds
from everything and when anything
that's not tied down at both ends tears
itself to pieces
that's when I miss you the most.
A posse ad esse non valet consequentia
From a thing's possibility, we cannot be certain of its reality.
Agentes, et consentientes, pari poena puniendi.
Those acting and those consenting ought to bear equal punishment.
Uno avulso non deficit alter.
When one is torn away, a second does not fail.
Lasciai di me la meglior parte a dietro.
I left the better part of me behind.
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Margaret Atwood: Strange Things : The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)
Right to the frosty tips of my Maritime 'burg nestles the omnipresent appreciation of all things Canadian - lest not forget, 'natch, that this is Lower Canada, first founded, settled by those who settled and therefore most appropriate dwelling-place for some serious CanLitticism on a chilly eve - a hunger best feasted with the reigning Empress of post-Dominion Culture, here her own splendid Wendigo-fed self most engaging with a bemused discussion of the particular neuroses provoked by our frozen mythoscape that are so lovingly delineated by myriad earnest PhD dissertations from sea to sea to sea.
Candace Savage: Crows : Encounters with the Wise Guys
Seduced by the caw of the wild that blankets the UNB campus with a murderous cacophany of harbingers of death at the same time every fall, I put this on my Chrismas list hoping for some new insight into these amazing creatures that mimic human speech and modified tool use - instead, I found surprizingly mediocre musings on evolutionary biology from an unqualified, underresearching hack writer made bearable only by a bevy of lovely photographs and images of our witty black-feathered bretheren.
