four million times more massive than our sun
because the black hole is about 27,000 light-years away from earth, it appears to us to have about the same size in the sky as a donut on the moon
like trying to take a clear picture of a puppy quickly chasing its tail
read from hong kong
that unofficial statisticians must present findings to appropriate
authorities before dissemination. tommy gnocchi also alarmed
ask through this string & two tin cans of a blog how many days in a row could you eat pizza? more than it took god to forge heaven and earth and chill
name that exclamation: 😇💩 i'm a millennial // you're a late boomer franciene visited terraneve, artificial snow in the deepest bowels of brazil
watched brüno
read needle at the bottom of the sea: bengali tales from the land of eighteen tides by tony k. stewart, including bengal bay as haystack, the auspicious tale of the lord of the southern regions, tiger-mounted gods lift mortals by the scruff of the neck, tigers disguise selves in sheep's clothing
tigers, serpents, and crocodiles
viraha, "love in separation," ...this recurring theme is easily the most prominent in the literary and religious world of bengal
apocope or not, a flexible feature of vowel epenthesis in compound words on which poets frequently rely for metrical purposes
scribal inconsistency was the norm
winsomeness as lotus-faced or moon-faced
hanuman - the great monkey god, general of lord ram's army, and construction genius
gaji..of the persian ghazi, warrior-saint
baoyali, in this early modern text, the traditional class of timber-cutters, haulers of wood, and sometimes collectors of honey unique to the sundarbans. the term can also signify the individual who accompanies a work gang to help ward off tigers
a traditional bengali saying that sons can be replaced, but not brothers
he grabbed his son by the hair. "i fathom nothing at all," he cried out, "while you alone lord understand the reason for everything." with one swift slashing cut, he severed his son's torso in two
the lord of the tidelands dispensed his boons
babies are attracted to the moon, reach up to grab it, and are consequently frustrated because what they desire remains out of their reach
i had just eaten one nobody of a salt worker, when in a rage three streaks of twenty tigers each came roaring after me
kavi krsnaram observes that there was great method in his madness
"showing them the banana" (dekhaiya kala), which evokes the image of the backside of a tiger fleeing with tail upraised, expresses disdain. figuratively, the idiom has the sense of "quickly giving them the slip," but conveys defiance, like "giving someone the finger"
are you really such an ignoramus that you can only spew deprecations from your pumpkin chariot?
an iraqi horse is no match for a tiger
chewing her betel quid with great gusto
and so the merchant sat at the side of the king and offered appropriate encomia to his feet
smolder in viraha, the exquisite agony of love in separation that has occupied poets and mystics in bengal for centuries
bestow upon me a float of crocodiles
niranjan - god, the "stainless"
iuchuph - the biblical joseph
rahu - the cause of the moon's eclipse; an asura who sips the nectar of immortality only to have his neck severed by visno before it can trickle into his body, so his head remains immortal, periodically swallowing the moon, which momentarily obscures it, until it emerges from his throat
padmavati, or manasa, goddess of serpents
the chief physician checked her pulse and then gave his diagnosis: "i have determined beyond doubt, it is the madness of love"in sonapur, the city of gold. listen attentively, all of you discriminating connoisseurs of love, to a vivid description
the items necessary for performing puja worship. lamps, parched rice, aromatic incense, ripe bananas, sugar, sandalwood paste, vermillion, flowers
kalu saha is imprisoned and gaji summons all the tigers
you dye your staff yellow with turmeric and call it gold
this rogue wants to kill me by stopping me from pissing
my wife has told me that she is pregnant and is especially craving ram's testicles
let's just give those two best of twice-born a real taste of our balls
if you do not equip me with the crocodiles, mother, then i have little choice but to commit suicide right now, right before your eyes, making you responsible
to commit suicide in front of someone or on the stoop of their house confers responsibility on that individual, which generates an inescapable blame and social opprobrium that is impossible to counter
they quite lost their minds, ensorcelled by his irresistible glamour
what kind of phakir keeps a woman for company?
the rhizome of the turmeric is ground for the spice
connotations of wanton behavior..used despectively
raised by the deer and the other animals of the jungle
the prophet, being of exemplary nature, listened from his tomb
who is able to fathom alla's drama?
throngs of demons and spirits to harvest the honey and beeswax
the place where he jettisoned the honey into the ganga from that moment on became known as the madhukhali - the "honey channel"
the oath to "eat someone's head," invariably that of someone who is dear to the speaker, is perhaps the strongest promise one can make because of the perceived danger to the person named; it is the most serious of guarantees or promises
he kissed her feet
we shall feed him to those selfsame serpents
hungry ghosts..floated the logs, miraculously driving the cut boles upstream against the strong currents of the low-lying regions
polemical literature, where women are blamed for everything from storms and earthquakes, pestilence and crop-failure, to corrupting men through their physical charms
a translator's delight
singing the name of ram in sweet song from all five of his mouths
i will pour one hundred pots of ghee and one hundred pots of honey over your head
i shall collect the blood of buffaloes and rams and offer it in a skull, if you would but ensure the king's virgin daughter places the garland on me
the groom and virgin bride then blissfully repaired to the flower-room, where the two engaged in games of dice with spirited intimacy
minanath, the adi or original guru of the naths, hid in the womb of a fish that hovered underneath the boat in the middle of the ocean of milk where siv had taken his wife, gauri, to be absolutely alone in order to explain the secret of immortality, a conversation spurred by gauri's discovery that siv's garland of skulls were all her own skulls from previous lives. because she was not immortal, she had repeatedly been reborn
this lapwing will feign a broken wing, dragging it around, in order to distract predators from its nest
the qur'anic story of al-khidr..a master of esoteric knowledge enlisted by alla to prick the prophet musa's ego and curb his impatience and hubris
never let anger crease your face
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