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Friday, June 20, 2025

Jane Austin's AnagraMania

It is a truth universally acknowledged...
...everyone's Thula duck lard...? It's a-wilting... 

(It seems Mr. Darcy owns a pineapple plantation / fois gras factory on Oahu which he's dubb'd Thula.. .)

Longfellow's AnagraMania

Tell me not in mournful numbers... 
..."Mull 'n' burn fourteen mint moles..."

(Nobody tells Henry Wadsworth how to prepare his signature blacken'd moles.)

The Dulliad of Sappho of Atlantis

Sing to me, O Muse,  but not of Wand'ring Jews, nor Ulysses, late of Troy, nor Anchises, or his boy. Sing of one instead  who never left...