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Question

What is the name of the stopping of the ring of a bell?

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Writing on the top white sheet would transfer the carbon from the black paper onto the bottom white sheet. Black transported the meaning. - Teju Cole

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Mis-read

Volunteer musician

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After I returned to my country after the war, I found I had to re-learn the language, because there were new words, or words took on new meaning, because of the war, and as I was in exile during the war, I hadn't learned them, or their new meaning. - Quote approximated from Aleksandar Hemon

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Comedium (He Only Channels Dead Comedians) - Jean-Paul Fournier

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Rest in peace, Jimmy Buffett.

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I should be compensated for having to walk into a bookstore and see "booktok."

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I took swigs of wine straight from the bottle, to relax but also to render the evening more profane. - Joshua Roebke

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Is the new form of luxury travel that of weightlessness, rotating hallways, & suspension in outer space? The hotel has long been a place of forbidden pleasure-principles, with decadent lobbies & back-rooms, but this threatens to bring desire into alien orbits of possibility. - Jason Mohaghegh

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Ambitious humans took on the challenge of seeking water on other planets, given that water is the precondition of life. However, contemplating water is also to slip away, dissolve, & die. Could it be that deep within the core of our desire for extraterrestrial communication hides an obscure urge to seek new ways of dying? - Damon Bonari

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What drives both thought and sound to madness today isn’t the dark side of the moon, after all, but the dark side of the earth. - Neil Verma

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I really extremely disagree with this and in fact worry that we are conflating "making it accessible" with "dumbing it down" which does nobody any favors. Poetry doesn't have to be badly written and empty of all meaning to be "accessible," and if you want poetry that "doesn't require your brain" then frankly you don't want poetry.

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A great jazz musician needs a group, a trio, a partner instrument to maintain the ghost of the pulse against which the idiosyncratic improvisations can occur. It is the counterpoint we respond to. - Ellen Bryant Voigt

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As if good intentions could emerge from a paint can. - Jacqueline Allen Trimble

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I know every word that rhymes with my assailant’s first name.

Rob Schlegel

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Self-nailed martyrs make a dangerous crowd. - Joseph Byrd

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