Brandon's Buzz

“The genius chained to the official table should die or go mad, in the same way, as the person with a mighty constitution at sedentary life and modest behavior dies of an apoplectic seizure.”

— a lovely piece of beautiful nonsense which got caught up in the Buzz’s spam filter this morning, courtesy of a “poster” going by the “name” of SumashtDilovf. (The longer I stare at that sentence, the more it starts to make a strange, cozy kind of sense, which could well mean I need a nap.)

Chantal Kreviazuk — “M (Next Train to the Moon)”
(from Colour Moving and Still) —

A baby girl loses her life, and a family fractures from grief, and it’s hard to fathom anyone beyond the utterly captivating Kreviazuk who would have the temerity to reach down into such a scenario and at least try to yank from it a handful of hope.