Actually I enjoyed them a lot, but I'm the world's worst loccer - too much else to do (fannishly), and the passivity of being a reader sets in if you don't loc immediately you get an issue.

He will soon disregard the roaring of your eloquence, as the bold sailor contemns the blustering of the winds […]

I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.

Hear Thou our plaint, when light is gone / And lawlessness and strife prevail. / Hear, lest the whelming weight of crime / Wreck us with life in view; / Lest thoughts and schemes of sense and time / Earn us a sinner's due.