Thursday, February 7, 2008

αδηλος / unknown, obscure

Said of the eugenicist's self-congratulatory findings . . . Clarence Darrow further cautioned "amongst the schemes for remolding society this [eugenics] is the most senseless and impudent that has ever been put forward by irresponsible fanatics to plague a long-suffering race" (Reddy 2007).

It was then that all the sky cast a dry grain of spells. There were clusters of sirens howling, thirty seconds of houses dressed all in a blaze of Christmas lights. There was a soft gradient of stars, a brilliant shade of voices all galloping across the bed of streets. There, music rained strands of moonlight on city-night, and the song of word set tree-still hearts alight. And the silent howls of restless hearts escaped the city quiet, all breathing life into this firestorm sleeping (Plamen, 1918).


Torrent: Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague (2004).

Tagline: "Let's dance little stranger. Show me secret sins."