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loves: you win if you guessed "pets" and "museums". Also books, art history, travel, British punk, Korean kimchi, bindis, martinis, and other things TBD. I will always make it very clear if a post is sponsored in any way. Drop me a line at thepetmuseum AT gmail.com !

Friday, January 11, 2013

a riddle

"Between a thick-set hedge of bones
A small red dog now barks, now moans."

"The answer rung, 'A human tongue!' "

-- found on page 205 of The Poetry of the Orient, by William Rounseville Alger (Roberts Brothers, 1865).

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