hogwarts gone wild

10 July

"My mother, who hates thunder storms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there"

--Philip Larkin, Mother, Summer, I

( today )

 

 

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9 July

England

( quidditch )

 

 

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8 July

British troops shoot Londonderry rioters
-- BBC [08 July 1971]

( changes )

 

 

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7 July

But I love it, I love this city
How slender is the space between love, mercy and ill will
I love to live inside its flesh and blood
To feel its ailing pulse in its hidden veins

--Abd al-Sabūr, Ibhār [1940]
tr. from the original Arabic unknown

( london )

 

 

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6 July

"All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came."

--John F. Kennedy [September 1962]

( sea change )

 

 

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5 July

The Smiths - Panic

( hooded and cloaked )

 

 

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4 July

gnats (or midges, as the case my be)

( blighters )

 

 

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3 July

In regards to beans on toast

( breakfast )

 

 

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2 July

It was a still, warm day in early July. As one looked out over the flat Essex country, lying so green and peaceful under the afternoon sun, it seemed almost impossible to believe that, not so very far away, a great war was running its appointed course.

--Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. 1924.

( theirs )

 

 

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Well, it's dogdaysofsummer time again.

Prepare yourself for 31 days of Remus/Sirius spam.

1 July

warm stone

( brilliant )

 

 

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