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“The work hangs interrupted.”
[‘pendent opera interrupta’]
Virgil, The Aeneid, Book IV, line 88.

Zayde Wolf — New Blood: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwGEhEk_RrY

“someone 
me more sweetly
and you yourself know
forgot you 
someone would say
and yes I shall love, 
as long as there is in me 
will be a care

I say I have been a strong lover
painful bitter
and know this 
whatever you
I shall love 
for 
of weapons”
Sappho of Lesbos, Fragment 88b, trans. Anne Carson, from: If Not, Winter.

“I distinguish a man that is absent, because he thinks of something else, 
from him that is absent, because he thinks of nothing.”
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 77, Tuesday, May 29, 1711 [‘Fellow that thinks a great deal’].

Etostone feat. Shena — Till The Sun Comes Up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wM1Kw3hlLw

“Why, we must forswear your alliance. 
Then, I suppose, you can neither give a ball, nor a mash, nor a horn!”
Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Chapter Fifth, 1817 [Diana ‘Die’ Vernon].