Fei Kayser

Write a Cathayan and Occidental adventure novel on Substack:
Li Bai, van Beethoven, Radioaktivität,
Tang Dynasty, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Jómsborg Vikings.

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@acapellascience Becquerel rhyme excellent. Didn’t see it coming.

Listened to it a second time just for that rhyme.

Reminds me of Sondheim rhyming “egos” with “amigos”and getting Cole Porter to chortle with that.

Totally on that level, a Cole Porter rhyme using a foreign word. 👍👍👍

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@LanguageLog Really interesting. Went on to read the related page: https://t.co/OPEQqrK8Te

“这个 particular 中国 market 是非常 fragmented, 但那 bubble 后来 busted 之后，我们可以 reconsider 我们的 options.”

A gem.

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@Gurdur @The_AshB @avra_cadaver @esthercarmen Where was this? The kids are dressed so nicely! I was just at a little Zeitreise today. I only have Hanfu, so just dressed normally, because I didn’t want to impose too much Zeit-reising on the Steampunk theme by Hanfu-ing.

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@mylesjude2 @CJLeung_DST Xiao Li Fei Dao from Gu Long and Bing Chuan Tian Nü from Liang Yusheng.

Gu Long is like TS Eliot, revolutionary colloquial language and form. Liang Yusheng is like Tolkien, lore and stories that wind so deep like the spirals of a snails’s house.

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try to make something of their own. Prost! Bottoms up.

Genesis:

"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

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Genesis (page 91) https://t.co/FvNVCQq0AZ

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And here´s a toast, to those who try to make something from nothing, who build with only their hands and the ether. Who open a shop, who start a store, who begin a song, who draft a picture, who conceive a life, who support one too, who — God-like — from the void and the darkness