Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain how I pause...
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain how I pause at your nature specific,
Loftily poised in the ether capacious,
Highly resembling a gem carbonaceous.
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain how I pause at your nature specific.
Scratch the disks, dump the core, Shut it down, pull...
Scratch the disks, dump the core, Shut it down, pull the plug
Roll the tapes across the floor, Give the core an extra tug
And the system is going to crash. And the system is going to crash.
Teletypes smashed to bits. Mem'ry cards, one...
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely...
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.
-- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris...
Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur's Bane shall waken,
And the Halfling forth shall stand.
-- J. R. R...
She asked me, "What's your sign?"
I blinked...
She asked me, "What's your sign?"
I blinked and answered "Neon,"
I thought I'd blow her mind...
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