"Why should the calculus of the destinies not have its thorny parts?"




An aristocracy of swans pushed haughtily through a commonality of ducks and a yokeldom of grebes.

from “Badger,” as printed in The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers by Guy Davenport
12:00 pm, by ascendingcoherence
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