Friday, September 29, 2006

sLAKING*

I have awakened to a pineal-headache; self-consciousness does such things, such awful merciless things; Hegel’s smithy, where metals are pounded into oddities, a retinue of alchemy and hammering, a cooper’s barrelhouse of awls and bungs. Perhaps a tincture of quinine and Quaalude will slake the pining, a panacea for consciousness, alchemy and faulty representations.

3 comments:

John MacDonald said...

...similar to David Letterman's top 10 but in this case, 8:

"Things in this blog post that sound dirty, but really aren't."

8. pineal-headache
7. Hegel’s smithy
6. pounded into oddities
5. retinue of alchemy
4. hammering
3. barrelhouse of awls and bungs
2. panacea for consciousness

and the number one thing in this post at number one...

1. slake the pining

< applause applause applause drum riff... go to commercial>

John MacDonald said...

...and you know, it's a little known secret that these were also the rejected names of what the band Led Zepplin was considering calling itself. [But I don't really want to be starting rumours.] You didn't hear it from me, in other words.

Stephen Rowntree said...

John, you are the Great Iron(y)er.

Thanks,

Stephen

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