Monday, August 22, 2005

commoncrofts: for the coterie

nec dignitas nec superbia neque aut rubor coram vobis--neither dignity nor pride, nor shame either, before you--my motto to the coterie. If you are reading this, you're in the coterie.

Fantastic. Thanks for being here.

THC III




Let us begin and carry up this corpse,
Singing together.
Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes
Each in its tether
Sleeping safe
on the bosom of the plain
Robert Browning: 'The Grammarian's funeral'