We’re getting awfully close to “With spider’s oil the lamps of Salem burn.” It’s not spider’s oil, but it’s in a spider-centric novel, and any sort of creepy-crawly being a source of lamp oil is a pretty unusual idea.
Tam multa, ut puta genera linguarum sunt in hoc mundo: et nihil sine voce est.
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Buckets, bathtubs, and seas of stories (plus hoopoes and caballeros)
On the night of April 6-7, I had the dream posted in " A bathtub full of books ," which was about just that: a bathtub -- which wo...

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Disclaimer: My terms are borrowed (by way of Terry Boardman and Bruce Charlton) from Rudolf Steiner, but I cannot claim to be using them in ...
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I’ve been sailing all my life now Never harbor or port have I known The wide universe is the ocean I travel And the earth is my blue boat ho...
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