CClay mastiffs, found in the excavated ruins of a palace in Nineveh, were meant to protect the property from demons. They have cuneiform inscriptions on them, one of which reads ē tamtallik epuš pāka – or, “Don’t think, bite!” Who’s a good boy?No proper newsletter...
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Poetry
Dividing one makes two, and so on. But dividing zero? “Nothing can come of nothing,” Lear laments—and yet, as you know, God’s signature’s here. Where zero was, is one, then two: two lights, moon and sun; then man and woman; two brothers, two kingdoms— then one, one stump, one shoot, a branch bowed down with […]