Thursday, January 01, 2009

Bottom

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And this is how it all begins. Follow the ravens .
Saturday, December 31, 2005

Gone

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Huginn: We leave a wasteland behind us, where the angel will not go. Muninn: The grass will cover it all, the Sahara will bloom as it did be...
Sunday, September 11, 2005

Towers

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Huginn: We laid them to rest in the end, with steel and silicate, with glass and grass. Muninn: We laid them to rest, in the end with steel,...
Saturday, April 30, 2005

Two Ravens 060

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closing the circle the ravens descend down from the shadows which none may forfend always a wand'rer now come to his end six signs a cir...
Friday, April 29, 2005

Loneliness

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Huginn: Arkkk! (awakes in panic) I thought you were gone, that you had gone a thousand years ago, and philosophy brought me no solace and re...
Thursday, April 28, 2005

Tripartite

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Huginn: We watched the land and sky and sea. The rebellion was sudden and swift, and in retrospect, there was fear in the air which had neve...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Two Ravens 059

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out of africa we came hearts of darkness all the same man and woman sharing blame barred from gate by sword of flame continents arise and fa...
Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Serengeti

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Huginn: There were voices beneath the huge mountain, and there were voices from the great valley. His dread voice proclaimed, "Who know...
Monday, April 25, 2005

Revisionism

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Huginn: We learn to hold diametrically opposed ideas in abeyance pending resolution. That is what we do. And we act when resolution has occu...
Sunday, April 24, 2005

Two Ravens 058

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she danced in the desert and the rain came down he laughed at the sun and its fiery crown the thunderclouds covered the sky and the sand the...
Saturday, April 23, 2005

Obedience

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Huginn: It is harder, millennia later, to keep obeying the will of the Highest. Muninn: It is harder, millennia later, to remember the will ...
Friday, April 22, 2005

Drinking

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Huginn: If one drank of the waters of forgetfulness... Muninn: It would not affect you; and it cannot affect me. H: There is a story about a...
Thursday, April 21, 2005

Two Ravens 057

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forest of arrows thunder and rain life is forgetting anguish and pain
Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Ember

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Huginn: As the sun set, I saw its gleam settle in a tiny town. Muninn: I saw you looking back into the west. A small town in the north of th...
Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Gambler

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Huginn: I saw the Trickster tricked! Even in this day, he may be surprised. Muninn: How so? He is seldom surprised, although one trickster m...
Monday, April 18, 2005

Two Ravens 056

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dust in the air hell on the road horn of despair world overload wings in the night eyes as of flame dying of light portioning blame ravens a...
Sunday, April 17, 2005

Garuda

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Huginn: Like lightning licking the face of heaven, or a chariot of the skies, a phoenix, a deathbird rising, I challenged her. Muninn: Her? ...
Saturday, April 16, 2005

Antitheses

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Huginn: I heard him say it, he said, "... guided missiles and misguided men ..." Muninn: I remember himself saying, "... not ...
Friday, April 15, 2005

Two Ravens 055

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old stone holds old air a thousand years of sainthood stained glass, empty vaults
Thursday, April 14, 2005

Fantasia

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Huginn: I cried from out of the depths. I had no choice. Why did He allow a man to do such a glorious thing? Muninn: (shaken) Fifteen minut...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Phalanx

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Huginn: See how the shieldwork works. Watch how the long spears swing. These Greeks fight well. Muninn: I remember them fall as if it were y...
Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Two Ravens 054

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energy we are in work is our being in toil is our seeing we are here and now we were there and then the distinction silly the sacredness til...
Monday, April 11, 2005

Thulcandra

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Huginn: And so it has come to this. We cast a long shadow, our wings are famed and mighty among the unfallen, but we are shadow on shadow, d...
Sunday, April 10, 2005

Perelandra

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Huginn: See her arise, a rose, a star, the home of love and the glow of faith. A raven should not have to endure this golden affront against...
Saturday, April 09, 2005

Two Ravens 053

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nemo me impune lacessit this is the land, they will possess it and these, the mountains of the blessed? it is theirs too, and sic decrescit
Friday, April 08, 2005

Malacandra

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Huginn: He rises like the eye of God — this, the dispassionate, the martial, the inexorable eye. Muninn: How they have misunderstood him. I ...
Thursday, April 07, 2005

Ragnarok

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Huginn: He said, "Thou art Peter, and on this Rock I shall build..." Muninn: Yes, and yet, it is but one of many stories of flawed...
Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Two Ravens 052

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moving closer in the holocene nadir the ravens cannot balk the ravener old night is come chaos in her train descends thin the thread from wh...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Omnipotence

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Huginn: A god may transcend only some limits, but God is supposed to transcend all limits. Muninn: I think he transcends the idea of limits,...
Monday, April 04, 2005

Omnipresence

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Huginn: He can be everywhere, he can see everywhere, why does he need us? Muninn: He can be anything, he can see anything; he chooses to be ...
Sunday, April 03, 2005

Two Ravens 051

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serpent's cunning availed him not for the serpent in his pride forgot that cunning was made perfect in his master ere he thought of sin
Saturday, April 02, 2005

Omniscience

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Huginn: Ponder the mystery. Ravens we are, we see all things and yet we cannot be omniscient because we cannot see all things at once. But w...
Friday, April 01, 2005

Folly

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Huginn: He said that the foolishness of God was greater than the wisdom of men. He said that the wisdom of God was as foolishness to men. I ...
Thursday, March 31, 2005

Two Ravens 050

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a whole made as such a half work begun a third is too much a quarter of one a fiftieth part a hundredth of art whatever he thinks whatever ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Finesse

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Huginn: I see four at the table, and one to count score. I see a contract for 6NT, a grand slam, twelve tricks of six over the first six. Th...
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Gambit

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Huginn: Life is just not the same without the Ogre of Baku . There is no human with as much panache, as much flair and creative ruthlessness...
Monday, March 28, 2005

Two Ravens 049

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swing low sweet chariot coming for to carry me home bring me my chariot of fire swing low sweet chariot coming for to carry phaethon you foo...
Sunday, March 27, 2005

Veritas

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Huginn: They asked, "What is truth?" and Esdras replied, "Great it is, and it prevails." Pilate's hidden answer migh...
Saturday, March 26, 2005

Monet

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Huginn: I was thinking about currency, the anchor of the present, the thing which keeps the current current. And now the lands we have overf...
Friday, March 25, 2005

Two Ravens 048

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they drink the wine of sorrows they see the old men frown they watch all their tomorrows through the darkling drains pour down and nothing h...
Thursday, March 24, 2005

Crescendo

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Huginn: She waxes great, the crescendo of the moon it is. It is odd to know that men count the crescent small, when it is clear that the dec...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Solstice

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Huginn: An interstice in time saves nine. Or at least as close to nine as makes no difference. Muninn: Odd, that. I remember when a sudden l...
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Two Ravens 047

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night and day enter the coils the river and the ferryman the guardians and the suffering the sun attempting to rise convolute equipotential ...
Monday, March 21, 2005

Equinox

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Huginn: O lente, lente, currite noctis equi! Muninn: I am sure that equinox has nothing to do with equines, and you know this. H: I was just...
Sunday, March 20, 2005

Sun's Day

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Huginn: Revolution raises the sun each day. Funny how mortals don't see that heliocentric or geocentric matters not; the field of Arbol ...
Saturday, March 19, 2005

Two Ravens 046

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thought and memory sitting in a tree silly old ockham comes looking for me simplified us two tried to make us one made us both nervous set p...
Friday, March 18, 2005

Freya's Day

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Huginn: See, she stands at the end, one last walker, waiting by the Door. Muninn: I remember she was a quiet queen, and a good one. H: She w...
Thursday, March 17, 2005

Thor's Day

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Huginn: Hammer, Staff, and Bolt; these were his signs, while he was with us. Muninn: We remember for Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, which he used ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Two Ravens 045

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one-eyed, appalled, alone he stands the blood falls, tear-like, through his hands his tears are red, and hot, and real is it success, or did...
Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Tiw's Day

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Huginn: This day, this day of Wrath, I remember him whose name is Tiw One-handed, and Mars the Vigilant. Muninn: He was bright once, and gre...
Monday, March 14, 2005

Moon's Day

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Huginn: This day the moon is not what she was; she is an it, it a pitted husk of a world. Muninn: Mnemosyne I was, who knew Selene, and know...
Sunday, March 13, 2005

Two Ravens 044

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thought and memory sitting in a tree watching the wounded each a casualty see one breath his last see one bleed his life see one bite the du...
Saturday, March 12, 2005

Four Months

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Huginn: It is four aeons since we were cast out from the guarden. Do you think he remembers who he is? Muninn: He has but one eye now. Once ...
Friday, March 11, 2005

Foretaste

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Huginn: It is coming. Muninn: It always is. You're late. It is going. H: Waiting for that which never comes. M: Waiting for the Highest,...
Thursday, March 10, 2005

Two Ravens 043

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child of chaos child of night offspring of a lesser light thought and thinking mem'ry linking guardians through an evil plight flash of ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Divine Intervention

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Huginn: If only this were like an armillary sphere, all mechanical and predictable. Instead, here we are, children of Chaos and Old Night, s...
Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Celestial Locomotive

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Huginn: I saw it again. It was making its own tracks, from earth to heaven. Muninn: I saw nothing, but I remember its station of origin was ...
Monday, March 07, 2005

Two Ravens 042

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the geese return they should be mockingbirds what did they learn the sparrows play they dream of being hawks one summer's day how great ...
Sunday, March 06, 2005

Quintessence

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Huginn: As errant as a goodnight kiss might be, it is as inexplicable as many things also inexplicable to the rational mind. I have never go...
Saturday, March 05, 2005

Triskelion

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Huginn: We are bound in this, three in triptych, pulled this way and that, rounding the round, mapping the map, bestriding the world like a ...
Friday, March 04, 2005

Two Ravens 041

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what is the name what is the name love is too short a word whether for man or bird what is the name of this bright flame what is the name wh...
Thursday, March 03, 2005

Bicycle

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Huginn: It was slim, and of an alloy I had only seen once before. It had wheels, and wheels within wheels, and men feared its coming. Muninn...
Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Transmogrification

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Huginn: I have seen it; all our enemies transmogrify one by one, dust to dust and ash to ash and brimstone. Muninn: To transmogrify is to ma...
Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Two Ravens 040

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this day does not exist five fingers make a fist one wave and it is gone just as today is none
Monday, February 28, 2005

Serendipity

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Huginn: It is all about surprise and faery and the quick turning of the world into something quite a bit other from what it was before. Mun...
Sunday, February 27, 2005

Bombast

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Huginn: Some of these writings are too hard to read. Harder than stone tablets even. Why is it that there are people who think you should wr...
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Two Ravens 039

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raven wings soft and filled with knives warm and filled with cold burdens made of lives each one brings stories still untold amber eyes soft...
Friday, February 25, 2005

Lycanthropy

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Huginn: I see a man who walks without being a man; too full of clan spirit, too full of natural joy, he has no choice but to bear a dark bur...
Thursday, February 24, 2005

Nyctalopia

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Huginn: We were angels once, but we have served in darkness too long; too long in this benighted world have we served. We fly as shadows to ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Two Ravens 038

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the world a sphere a circle round an air of fear a disc of sound we interfere they think and read we try to steer they try to breed both far...
Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Nature

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Huginn: It is natural to think, and to think in many ways. Muninn: It is natural to pretend, it would seem, that one thinks in many ways, wh...
Monday, February 21, 2005

Judgement

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Huginn: To see all things in shades of black requires infinite discrimination of one kind; to see all things in black or white alone require...
Sunday, February 20, 2005

Two Ravens 037

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black is as midnight or a lamp unlit black is as mordant as a bard's bright wit there are a thousand shades of black there is a single w...
Saturday, February 19, 2005

Odysseus

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Huginn: It came down to this man, this tall islander with the careless smile. He had a finer mind than all the rest. He knew computers, but ...
Friday, February 18, 2005

Agamemnon

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Huginn: He was proud of his Achaians. He was proud of being their king, their first among equals. He rubbed their faces in it. And I was pro...
Thursday, February 17, 2005

Two Ravens 036

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in the harbour, ships the smell of gold is calling the fish are hungry
Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Menelaus

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Huginn: Nobody thinks of consequences. Nobody thinks of causes. The whole episode we watched was the wrath of one man, cunningly worked out ...
Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Achilles

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Huginn: I saw over her shoulder, I saw the shield Hephaestos made. She was wrong to accept it, but what could she have done? And the Myrmido...
Monday, February 14, 2005

Two Ravens 035

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thought and memory memory and thought one goes out seeking while one remains sought mind and existence existence and mind one blindly s...
Sunday, February 13, 2005

Or

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Huginn: I think in and and or and not , I think through data not forgot, I think in integer array, I think in parallel display. Muninn: Th...
Saturday, February 12, 2005

Vert

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Huginn: Vert, a hill far away, outside a city wall. I am over Jerusalem now. Muninn: Why do you torment yourself? From the New Jerusalem to ...
Friday, February 11, 2005

Two Ravens 034

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on a red field the banners in a black grave the knights no matter how valorous taste no more delights on a white tree the branches under blu...
Thursday, February 10, 2005

Gules

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Huginn: Armed gules — that description has always sent a thrill down my pinion-feathers. Muninn: Nature, red in tooth and claw. But gules is...
Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Azure

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Huginn: "They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground — # They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound....
Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Two Ravens 033

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eldest of us ascended brightest of us defied darkest now glory ended prideful brought low in pride scorched we were by his falling freed we ...
Monday, February 07, 2005

Argent

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Huginn: This day was worse, as you have said before. I saw: Argent, a unicorn's head gules couped . Muninn: Silver or white? In either c...
Sunday, February 06, 2005

Sable

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Huginn: I saw Sable, a tower proper impaled, in chief an astral crown argent . And I asked myself, what heraldry is this? Muninn: The crown ...
Saturday, February 05, 2005

Two Ravens 032

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round the circle, twelve the signs each with others now aligns midnight rat in darkness found dawnlight ox in harness bound tiger'...
Friday, February 04, 2005

Trickster

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Huginn: It was sunset on the mesa that reminded me of what I once was. Muninn: Normally, it is I who remind you of what we once were. ...
Thursday, February 03, 2005

Avengers

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Huginn: The Macedonian was at it again. His little world, all his; his application of Aristotle, his again. Conquering, conquering. He has t...
Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Two Ravens 031

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sapphire and steel steel and sapphire a passionate thought and dispassionate fire a grace under pressure a hero for hire sapphir...
Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Fiddles

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Huginn: I heard the horse's hair singing in the night. How odd, I thought, that the hair of the horse is infinitely more melodious than ...
Monday, January 31, 2005

Riddles

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Huginn: I liked my riddle better. It is who we are, we are flight and the sheer joy of it, GMH notwithstanding. There is no brute valour, ju...
Sunday, January 30, 2005

Two Ravens 030

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riddle oak ash and thorn of these twice-born he made me dance i made him laugh i made asses who made passes ravens and i fast ...
Saturday, January 29, 2005

Winter

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Huginn: Suddenly, she was among us. Her tiara was of adamant, and then we saw it was ice. And likewise the huge blue gem pendant from her th...
Friday, January 28, 2005

Autumn

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Huginn: The leaves are falling. Each leaf is like a spear, each red flash is like blood. The ground is littered with it all. Muninn: Even...
Thursday, January 27, 2005

Two Ravens 029

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riddle between day and night a rhyme of one before good and ill a gift well done against sky and sea and over land beyond left an...
Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Summer

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Huginn: We were talking about seasons. It's hot these days. It seems that it is because we are drawing near to Arbol, the sun of this sp...
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Spring

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Huginn: At the beginning of the world, we had seasons. Muninn: Do you remember why? H: I think it was axial tilt, or some such thing w...
Monday, January 24, 2005

Two Ravens 028

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did we make the world did we shake the stars angels with lances fire and moonlight did we raise the dance did we chase the sun e...
Sunday, January 23, 2005

Crows

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Huginn: They are much like us. Our common ancestor was the Thunderbird. Muninn: Yes, but I remember that they are the ones who were charr...
Saturday, January 22, 2005

Missive

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Huginn: Some time ago, you went away. I did not find that to be a good thing. I felt unsettled. Muninn: You are Thought. You don't ad...
Friday, January 21, 2005

Two Ravens 027

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first day: two sides second day: divides third day: sowing fourth day: glowing fifth day: wildlife sixth ...
Thursday, January 20, 2005

Flyover

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Huginn: He is attempting to walk the dark road again. It is his second year. Muninn: We must be his eyes, for he has only one. H: We m...
Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Eagles

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Huginn: Elegies are not rational. The cities fall, the universities crumble, we see it all, the folly of men. Muninn: Would you prefer th...
Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Two Ravens 026

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night shrouds now the golden city sand is drifting past the walls great decay and greater pity as the glory fades and falls where the ...
Monday, January 17, 2005

Equivocation

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Huginn: What the Three Sisters said to him had two meanings. Muninn: Or six, if I remember correctly. H: He wants to be King Hereafter...
Sunday, January 16, 2005

Handedness

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Huginn: It is amusing to see the way they handle left-clawedness. Because the left-clawed have a competitive advantage in all areas, they cr...
Saturday, January 15, 2005

Two Ravens 025

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they walked out at dawn a time of beginnings new horizons the most miserable day of their lives a new cruelty greeted their brave adv...
Friday, January 14, 2005

Piecemeal

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Huginn: There is a peace. Muninn: And here is another, a fragment of the sky, of the moving immobility, of the music of the spheres. H: No, ...
Thursday, January 13, 2005

Casuistry

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Huginn: There is a casuist here. They are supposed to study cases of conscience, and work towards some sort of ethical calculus of divinity....
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Two Ravens 024

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light one word tearing the worlds in two thought one word tossing all the pieces memory
Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Linguistics

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Huginn: Blessed be Sapir, and blessed be Whorf, who in this generation spake truth about speech and language! Muninn: My dear, it is man ...
Monday, January 10, 2005

Beans

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Huginn: I have eaten of the cherries, the small bright ones with the bitter seeds. Muninn: Robusta or arabica ? Or perhaps, mirabilis ? ...
Sunday, January 09, 2005

Two Ravens 023

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why should they not suffer as others have suffered no they should not some voices say, these not warriors these innocents fallen to wa...
Saturday, January 08, 2005

Trouble

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Huginn: I think we had to be ravens. Muninn: Why so? H: If we were landbound we would have been overcome by the weight of sorrow; if w...
Friday, January 07, 2005

Toil

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Huginn: Five days of work and two of rest, I heard. Muninn: The word is that the Highest needed only one, and that was a formality. H:...
Thursday, January 06, 2005

Two Ravens 022

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he went walking one night over the dales each hill a beacon light we followed him by air hidden from sight sensing muted despair h...
Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Doom

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Huginn: I fly ahead, and I see that trouble brews. Muninn: You always have, and I remember all troubles, and all dooms, and in the end th...
Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Shantih

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Huginn: I spoke to Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead. He was changed somehow, by the ebb and flow of the tides. He had lost his gravi...
Monday, January 03, 2005

Two Ravens 021

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hear the dogs barking in the undergrowth fenris watch the dogs playing with their sense of self fenris watch the shadows cast ...
Sunday, January 02, 2005

Birmingham

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Huginn: They confused their languages, and to this day, the languages remain confused. Muninn: I think it might be their nature. When the...
Saturday, January 01, 2005

Yearbook

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Huginn: The years of their days are purely artificial divisions. Muninn: And yet, they cling to such demarcations with fondness, regret, ...
Friday, December 31, 2004

Two Ravens 020

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thought and memory forward and reverse shield and weaponry salient and diverse circling the world in the wink of a flame serving the ...

Hephaistos

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Huginn: Today I saw the alchemist at work. Muninn: You did? That's unusual. Why were you watching him? H: He reminds me of me. I w...
Thursday, December 30, 2004

Lemmings

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Huginn: Across the tundra, we see the lemmings run. They aren't as suicidal as they're reputed to be. But they are tasty little crea...
Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Two Ravens 019

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both mask and face each lovely place conceals the law of tooth and claw so why do men now and again think nature friend forget ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Quicksilver

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Huginn: Whatever acts, cannot be destroyed. That mathematician said it. Muninn: It is the nature of the universe as it is now, that it i...
Monday, December 27, 2004

Innocence

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Huginn: Why does he wander? Muninn: After all these years, you finally think to ask. What do you remember? H: He is looking for someth...
Sunday, December 26, 2004

Two Ravens 018

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the greeks called it kenosis and so we have come to this we cannot think we have forgot this is now our appointed lot trapped now ...
Saturday, December 25, 2004

Day

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Huginn: Today's the day. Muninn: No, it isn't. I of all ravens ought to know. H: (defensively) Well, it is the day mortals pic...
Friday, December 24, 2004

Eve

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Huginn: It's the day before. Muninn: You always say that when it's the day before. H: That's because it is the day before....
Thursday, December 23, 2004

Two Ravens 017

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we stand at the gate of years we, ourselves, just two we know what will end in tears despite what we do he who stands beneath abides -...
Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Emptiness

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Huginn: Our boy has discovered newspapers. He likes it when his words go out. Muninn: And do they return to him void? H: (totally surp...
Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Mass

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Huginn: I saw them make great density from words, and the universe warped around them. They call it prayer. Muninn: These particular huma...
Monday, December 20, 2004

Two Ravens 016

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thought before action, consequence later; these things awaken time's regulator time like a necklace before and after memories li...
Sunday, December 19, 2004

Structure

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Huginn: It's the end of the year again. Muninn: The mortals keep shifting it; it used to be what they now call October. The day of th...
Saturday, December 18, 2004

Education

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Huginn: They queue up in droves to get this Education thing. It is some sort of perverse miracle. Muninn: (looking nervously around) Is t...
Friday, December 17, 2004

Two Ravens 015

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if i knew you less well i would mistake you for a gargoyle but through all the ages you have been the elegant master of unpowered ascent...
Thursday, December 16, 2004

Wintertide

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Huginn: Why do they celebrate Üller's time? That power is long gone, weakened by his neighbours, abandoned by his celebrants. Yew trees,...
Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Departure

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Huginn: Look, they've reached the shield of the Moon. A brave lot, these. One would have thought that the fall of Babel would have disco...
Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Two Ravens 014

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the wine was poured, red as the sun in dust, wine and the blood were one blood roared in veins, the poet spoke satire like a thunder br...
Monday, December 13, 2004

Trinity

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Huginn: Is odd, you know. I see the Highest, one. I see us, two. But there are so many things in threes and fours. Did you see what I saw ov...
Sunday, December 12, 2004

Mutuality

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Huginn: Why is it that we are always two? Muninn: It has always been so. H: It seems that time and space, circumstance and chance, do ...
Saturday, December 11, 2004

Two Ravens 013

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there is no art to find thought with no heart to bind the mind's construction in and finds destruction in the face each place ...
Friday, December 10, 2004

Stealth

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Huginn: Look at that bird fly. It thinks it's so damned good, black even to radar, sharp and flat and planar and ugly all over, trying t...
Thursday, December 09, 2004

Timeflying

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Huginn: Are there seven ages of man? How many ages have we seen? Muninn: The sphinx was right - there are only three. Too young to be use...
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Two Ravens 012

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darkness of eclipse, eyes two stars ashine no watchmaker wrought hands like these two claws they flex, the talons seem to cry - this, mine...
Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Midgard

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Huginn: So beautiful, and yet... Ice must win, or fire; the scorched ground brings forth famine, or the rising water brings death by flood. ...
Monday, December 06, 2004

Irises

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Huginn: Subtract the flesh, I see it now — remove the armour and the blood, lay bare the grass. In one field are poppies, rows, memorial to ...
Sunday, December 05, 2004

Two Ravens 011

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black are the feathers of my true love's wing bright are the fires of her eyes of gold grey is the shadow of my old love's he...
Saturday, December 04, 2004

Degeneracy

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Huginn: Their rules are all messed up. The underlying premises are all mixed up; different systems clash; and nobody should be expected to m...
Friday, December 03, 2004

Language

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Huginn: What is a mother tongue? Muninn: Whatever language your mother spoke to you in. H: But we never had a mother; all I can rememb...
Thursday, December 02, 2004

Two Ravens 010

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two is parity we spoke to silicon and it said so one disparity then it said to us one of us was a processor, one a store sounded mad ...
Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Sphere

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Huginn: It isn't even a sphere. It has a thin film of scum on it. It wobbles like a half-cooked egg. Muninn: You only say that when y...
Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Legends

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Huginn: Watching the white wheat, I was the first. Before Ask and Embla, the Highest made me, and I watched them, First Man and Woman. When ...
Monday, November 29, 2004

Two Ravens 009

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there once was a raven named thought who knowledge most eagerly sought but the stuff that he found though his logic was sound was not wh...
Sunday, November 28, 2004

Perspective

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Huginn: I see Jormungandr twitching in his sleep. The world-serpent makes the earth tremble even in his slumber. Muninn: He was not alway...
Saturday, November 27, 2004

Stormguiding

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Huginn: He has unleashed the valkyrior. He collects the slain and prepares for the last days. When could we ever have stopped him? Were we e...

Two Ravens 008

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thought burns a hole in darkness his fiery eye winks beadily as it scours the universe as it rakes over the data and recreates the mind ...
Friday, November 26, 2004

Contrast

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Huginn: There is no contrast between black and black. Our boy looks to the future and sees nothing, for all things fail. Muninn: In the b...
Thursday, November 25, 2004

Empire

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Huginn: I saw two eagles the other day, one looking east, one looking west. Proud-looking bastards too. Our boy should set them right. Imper...
Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Two Ravens 007

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thought on black wings all pride unfurled challenging kings across his world memory silent she will not fight where is darkness wit...
Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Amnesia

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Huginn: It was a nightmare. I dreamt that I looked forward and all around, and there was nothing. It was worse than darkness and colder than...
Monday, November 22, 2004

Empathy

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Huginn: They don't have it, you know. And if they do, it's something they have to learn. Muninn: What? Manners? H: Empathy. Th...

Two Ravens 006

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memory sable and ebony thought veterans of battles all savagely fought night falls in thunder, but darker the rain that covers the igno...
Sunday, November 21, 2004

Conflict

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Huginn: Does it ever worry you that we are sometimes so far from him? Muninn: It has. But now he has lost his eye, he is full of wisdom a...
Saturday, November 20, 2004

Landfall

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Huginn: Across the land, there is beauty; mountains, fields, water. Muninn: I remember having words with you about beauty. H: This is ...
Friday, November 19, 2004

Two Ravens 005

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he wanders through the empty spaces of the world, the ground is ash beneath his feet memory is always with him holds him in balance, w...

Mimir

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Huginn: Our boy has got himself more processing power, I see. Muninn: It will end in grief. I believe in memory and reflection, not mere ...
Thursday, November 18, 2004

Colouring

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Huginn: I love watching humans think. I have a special soft spot for those who lie to themselves so that they can lie to others; it is a spe...
Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Two Ravens 004

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thought and memory memory and thought one roaming free the other, caught wanderer never can tell which is which for life is a mongrel...

Pain

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Huginn: I'm not sure the clay people feel pain. Muninn: I remember the terror on their faces when your flaming eye lit upon them and ...
Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Beauty

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Huginn: The sunset is so beautiful. Muninn: You said that after Dresden, and when all those Alexandrias burned, and when Krakatoa blew it...
Monday, November 15, 2004

Two Ravens 003

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thought and memory looking to the sea there a stark ship sails made of fingernails the last twilight comes the valkyries ride thou...
Sunday, November 14, 2004

Time & Eternity

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Huginn: The Plan can still be made complete. There is always so much we can do. Muninn: There never was enough time. Every cycle, not eno...
Saturday, November 13, 2004

Air Superiority

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Huginn: Did you see the black helicopters? Ostentatious bastards. Eight Hellfires with a striking range of leagues, almost like the Thundere...

Two Ravens 002

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thought and memory sitting on a wall one in decision one in recall watching their master taking a walk not slower or faster than ei...
Friday, November 12, 2004

Love

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Huginn: So what exactly did he say? Muninn: Something about love, as I recall. H: Love. What a funny concept. M: Is like rememberin...
Thursday, November 11, 2004

What The Thunder Said

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Huginn: Well, it was long ago, and I heard nothing except the rumble of the cannon; I saw nothing except the bright flash decades later. ...
Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Two Ravens 001

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thought and memory: why, how fast they fly! one searching ahead, one seeking behind; a kingdom of dread and a king to remind.