User:Mamalujo

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Not to be confused with Marmolejo, Mamalahoe, Mamallapuram, Mamaluke, Mamanuca, Membrillo, Malamute, Marmalade or [http://strongsnumbers.com/greek/3170.htm Megaluno].

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More about me

I enjoy history, running, surfing, hiking and sailing.

Some books I've read recently: On the Road, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, Michael D. O'Brien's Plague Journal, James Bradley's Imperial Cruise, about Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission to Asia, Tim Powers' Expiration Date, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, Keith Donohue's The Stolen Child based on my favorite Yeats poem of the same name, Ron Hansen's Atticus, Shusaku Endo's Silence, Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow, G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Strangers and Sojourners by Michael D. O'Brien, Thomas Cahill's Mysteries of the Middle Ages, Anthony Beevor's The Spanish Civil War, Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, Ron Hansen's Mariette In Ecstacy, The Kite Runner, Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, the Voyages of Joshua Slocum and Rod Dreher's Crunchy Cons.

Articles created by me

More not about me - [[poetry]], [[abecedario]], [[gibberish]], [[The Raw and the Cooked|the raw and the cooked]] eggs and [http://www.lycaeum.org/mv/Finnegan/viewpage.cgi?page=183&like=quashed%7cquotatoes quashed quotatoes] served with [[runcible]] [[spoonerisms]], only water to drink, and other [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shenanigan shenanigans], including magnification, [[Tesla's Egg of Columbus|eggs and magnetism]]

AB OVO USQUE AD MALA

(Furtive my Anglish its [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mi mi] furst [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/linguage linguage].)

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Litter

pyx of pottery por ewe or ewers:

Here is no water but only rock

Rock and no water and the sandy road

The road winding above among the mountains

Which are mountains of rock without water

If there were water we should stop and drink ***

What is that sound high in the air

Murmur of maternal lamentation

Who are those hooded hordes swarming

Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth

Ringed by the flat horizon only

What is the city over the mountains

Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air

Falling towers

Jerusalem Athens Alexandria

Vienna London

Unreal

-T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,

Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood

Teach us to care and not to care

Teach us to sit still

Even among these rocks,

Our peace in His will

And even among these rocks

Sister, mother

And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,

Suffer me not to be separated

And let my cry come unto Thee.

-T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday

Where are the eagles and the trumpets?

Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps.

Over buttered scones and crumpets

Weeping, weeping multitudes

Droop in a hundred A.B.C.’s.

-T.S. Eliot, A Cooking Egg

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Our four avunculists. And, threestory sorratelling was much too many, they maddened and they morgued and they lungd and they jowld. Synopticked on the world.

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Our wholemole millwheeling vicociclometer, a tetradoma-tional gazebocroticon (the “Mamma Lujah” known to every schoolboy scandaller, be he Matty, Marky, Lukey or John-a-Donk), autokinatonetically preprovided with a clappercoupling smeltingworks exprogressive process, (for the farmer, his son and their homely codes, known as eggburst, eggblend, eggburial and hatch-as-hatch can) receives through a portal vein the dialytically separated elements of precedent decomposition for the verypet-purpose of subsequent recombination so that the heroticisms, catastrophes and eccentricities transmitted by the ancient legacy of the past; type by tope, letter from litter, word at ward, with sendence of sundance, since the days of Plooney and Colum-cellas when Giacinta, Pervenche and Margaret swayed over the all-too-ghoulish and illyrical and innumantic in our mutter nation, all, anastomosically assimilated and preteridentified paraidioti-cally, in fact, the sameold gamebold adomic structure of our Finnius the old One, as highly charged with electrons as hophaz-ards can effective it, may be there for you, Cockalooralooraloo— menos, when cup, platter and pot come piping hot, as sure as herself pits hen to paper and there’s scribings scrawled on eggs.

-James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

And egg she active or spoon she passive, all them fine clauses in Lindley’s and Murrey’s never braught the participle of a present to a desponent hortatrixy, vindicatively I say it, from her postconditional future. (Finnegans again)

FOOL: Give me an egg, [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuncle nuncle], and I'll give thee twocrowns.

KING LEAR: What two crowns shall they be?

FOOL: Why—after I have cut the egg i' th' middle and eat up the

meat—the two crowns of the egg. When thou clovest thy

crown i' th' middle, and gavest away both parts, thou borest

thy *** o' th' back o'er the dirt. Thou hadst little wit in thy

bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away. If I

speak like myself in this, let him be whipped that first finds

it so.

-Shakespeare, King Lear, act 1, scene 4

Truly, thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

-Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 3, scene 2

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

-Alexander Pope, Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle ii, Book ii, Line 85

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מִיכָאֵל‎,

A pyxis [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ortu ortu] [http://books.google.com/books?id=tyIPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA573&lpg=PA573&dq=ortu+latin&source=bl&ots=Qkw1hjI_Mu&sig=Tmqyq7-2cOCF1r4aV1lgdFdbupg&hl=en&ei=YFadTMnIOILEsAOj04jWAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCAQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=ortu%20latin&f=false ortu] of sum thegns:

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the [http://books.google.com/books?id=qHR4w0mYE14C&pg=PA189&lpg=PA189&dq=farced+epistol+to+the+hibruws&source=bl&ots=6vlksmQlZQ&sig=u6uEN3swE6nLud7cGN0Ihe5e7p0&hl=en&ei=XyqGToPKF-fiiAKY-sm4DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEIQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=farced%20epistol%20to%20the%20hibruws&f=false farced epistol to the hibruws], not for vegetarian Wagnerians

The Blud of the mortars is the cede of the smirch. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thus Thus] leap of rhizome [http://books.google.com/books?id=2ncKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA658&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false profusus] monstrance.

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You should tell that story to Dali. He has held the world monopoly on eggs ever since Christopher Columbus gave it up. Omelettes, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, hard-boiled eggs, soft-boiled eggs – Dali has used them for everything.

-Picasso

Wow! Quiet! the birds are making an awful racket in the Row tweep? tswip! creet! clink! crack! ding dong the bell rope bird of break of day

-Jack Kerouac, Old Angel Midnight

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Who began

before non-existence's dependence

on existence, Who came before

the chicken and the egg

Who started out

enormous Light

the dark brilliance of the Mystery

for all good hears to shroud inside

-Jack Kerouac, Pomes all sizes

- - -- - Μεγαλύνει - -----

Who would hang from the domed ceiling of his house
A figure of the world with colours in it

So that the figure of the universe

And ‘not just single things’ would meet his sight

When he walked abroad. As from his small window

The astronaut sees all he has sprung from,

The risen, aqueous, singular, lucent O

Like a magnified and buoyent ovum

Or like my own wide pre-reflective stare

All agog at the plasterer on his ladder

Skimming our gable and writing his name there

With his trowel point, letter by strange letter.

Seamus Heaney, Alphabets

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A DRINK OF WATER

She came every morning to draw water

Like an old bat staggering up the field:

The pump's whooping cough, the bucket's clatter

And slow diminuendo as it filled,

Announced her. I recall

Her grey apron, the pocked white enamel

Of the brimming bucket, and the treble

Creak of her voice like the pump's handle.

Nights when a full moon lifted past her gable

It fell back through her window and would lie

Into the water set out on the table.

Where I have dipped to drink again, to be

Faithful to the admonishment on her cup,

Remember the Giver fading off the lip.

-- Seamus Heaney

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Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it

Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for

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The moon's host elevated

in a monstrance of holly trees,

he makes dark tracks, who had

untousled a first dewy path

into the summer grazing.

-Seamus Heaney, The Last Mummer

“If it’s a symbol, then to hell with it!” - Flannery O’Connor

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Southward through EDEN went a River large, Nor chang'd his course, but through the shaggie hill Pass'd underneath ingulft, for God had thrown That Mountain as his Garden mould high rais'd Upon the rapid current, which through veins Of porous Earth with kindly thirst up drawn, Rose a fresh Fountain, and with many a rill Waterd the Garden; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the neather Flood, Which from his darksom passage now appeers, And now divided into four main Streams, Runs divers, wandring many a famous Realme And Country whereof here needs no account - Paradise Lost

About that original hen. ... please kindly communicake with the original sinse we are only yearning as yet how to burgeon. It's meant milliems of centiments deadlost or mislaid on them but, master of snakes, we can sloughchange in the nip of a napple solongas we can allsee for deedsetton your quick. - Finnegans Wake

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