things I like today

- that slaughter is laughter with an s.

- that once upon a time, meteors were called exhalations.

- that the joplin line I've liked so much all these years, I am as constant as the northern star, is extracted from julius caesar, and is one of the last things he says. his constancy, we are to believe, is what in part makes him a tyrant (quote unquote). for joplin, it is the material of a good love. and for someone else, love is tyranny and shakespeare and joplin are bedfellows!