The desiderium is the most certain Being and the only honourable quality of all men; the desiderium to give shape to that which foredawns so clearly, which questions in objects themselves and seeks its poet, with an as it were demanding gaze, is Having and Not-Having itself.

2000, Henrik, HP48GX display fixed itself - hmm, go wonder?? ;-))) (on newsgroup comp.sys.hp48)

If this decision turns out to be a bad one, I'll take the heat for it.

And sitting on the porch one night at La Hacienda, reading by generator light, I was hardly even tempted when bats came vectoring down – fruit bats, maybe – called by the lamp's citreous glow in which, turning, I could see my rod fly against the rail, its golden reel glittering like something electrical, or something alive….