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          <title>[&quot;kitty&quot;.sixteen,5&#x27;1&quot;,white,prostitute] by E. E. Cummings</title>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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&quot;kitty&quot;. sixteen,5&#x27;1&quot;,white,prostitute.

ducking always the touch of must and shall,
whose slippery body is Death&#x27;s littlest pal,

skilled in quick softness.   Unspontaneous.   cute.

the signal perfume of whose unrepute
focusses in the sweet slow animal
bottomless eyes importantly banal,

Kitty. a whore. Sixteen
                                  you corking brute
amused from time to time by clever drolls
&lt;mark&gt;fearsomely who do keep their sunday flower.&lt;&#x2F;mark&gt;
The babybreasted broad &quot;kitty&quot; twice eight

—beer nothing,the lady&#x27;ll have a whiskey-sour—

whose least amazing smile is &lt;mark&gt;the most great
common divisor of unequal souls&lt;&#x2F;mark&gt;.
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          <title>The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) by Fyodor Dostoevsky</title>
          <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;01&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am a ridiculous man. Nowadays they call me mad.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;02&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;All of a sudden, I realised that it &lt;em&gt;would not matter&lt;&#x2F;em&gt; to me whether the world existed or whether there was nothing at all anywhere. I began to intuit and sense with all my being, that &lt;em&gt;there was nothing around me&lt;&#x2F;em&gt;.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;03&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly, I noticed in one of these spaces a tiny star and began watching it intently. That was because that tiny star had given me an idea: I decided to kill myself that night.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;07&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;One might go so far as to say that &lt;mark&gt;the world was created for me alone&lt;&#x2F;mark&gt;, as it were: I will shoot myself and the world will cease to exist, at least for me.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;09&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now they were burying me in the earth. Everyone went away and I was alone.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;16&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;It may have been a dream, but it cannot be that it did not take place.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;16&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like a foul trichina*, &lt;mark&gt;like a pestilential germ bringing contagion to whole countries, I infected that earth, happy and sinless before my arrival.&lt;&#x2F;mark&gt; They learned how to lie, and grew to love lying and perceive its beauty.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;17&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;When they tookup criminality, they invented justice and enacted whole codes of law to preserve it, while for the maintenance of the codes they set up the guillotine.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;20&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I won’t accept, and refuse to believe that evil is the normal condition of men.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;21&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dream? What’s a dream? &lt;mark&gt;Isn’t this life of ours a dream?&lt;&#x2F;mark&gt; I’ll go further: suppose it never, ever comes true, and there is no paradise (now &lt;em&gt;that&lt;&#x2F;em&gt; I do understand!), well, I’ll still go on preaching. And yet how simple a matter it is: in one day, &lt;em&gt;in one hour&lt;&#x2F;em&gt; it could all be brought about at once!&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;21&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The chief thing is to love others as oneself, that’s the main thing, and that’s it—absolutely nothing more is necessary.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;notes notes--glossary&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;meta&quot;&gt;trichina&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;A parasitic nematode worm.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
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          <title>th (2024) by me</title>
          <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
          <author>l@ily.rs</author>
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id dread the thought of thoughts
and of thinking too thoughtfully
if things end dreadfully for us;
i think all thoughts ive thought
while thinking of late have been
thoughtful things about us(which
thankfully[i thank]works well as
things are swell,but hell to the
thoughts i’ll thoughtfully think
if things end dreadfully for me)
&lt;&#x2F;pre&gt;
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