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Umbopa:
"What is life? Tell me, O white men, who are wise, who know the secrets of the world of stars, and the world that lies alone and around the stars; who flash their words from afar without a voice; tell me, white men, the secret of our life-- whither it goes and whence it comes!

"Ye cannot answer; ye know not. Listen, I will answer, Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowehere! for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere. Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset."

- H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?

- Theodore Geisel

635 AM EST THU JAN 15 2004

.DAY ONE...
WIND CHILL WARNINGS ARE POSTED FOR THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA WITH
PRIME RISK PERIOD 10 PM TONIGHT TO 10 AM FRIDAY WHEN THE COMBINATION
OF TEMPERATURES FALLING THROUGH DAILY RECORDS AND INCREASING WIND...
RESULTS IN AN AIRMASS THAT RIVALS THAT OF JANAURY 15 1957 WITH LITTLE
DOUBT AT LEAST A BIT COLDER THAN THE CHRISTMAS 1980 BLAST.

PLEASE SEE THE PUBLIC STATEMENT AND FORECAST PRODUCTS FOR MORE
DETAILS.

THAT IS GOING TO MEAN COLD RELATED ISSUES INCLUDING INCREASING
BATTERY FAILURES...SLUGGISH MACHINERY DUE TO COLD OIL ISSUES...
PROBABLE INJURY FOR ANYONE OUTDOORS FOR MORE THAN 10 MINUTES WITHOUT
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING INCLUDING FACE MASKS AND GLOVES...THIS
ESPECIALLY ON EXPOSED HIGH TERRAIN (RIDGES)N AND ALONG THE
MASSACHUSETTS COAST.

PLUMBING AND HEATING SYSTEMS WILL BE PUT TO NEW COLD STRESS TESTS.

FIRES WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CONCERN...NOT ONLY FROM BEING STARTED
BY INAPPROPRIATE USE OF HEATING DEVICES...BUT ALSO DUE TO THE
STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTS AND SUBZERO COLD TONIGHT.

CHILDREN AND OTHERS WAITING FOR BUSES MAY BE ADVERSELY IMPACTED BY
FROSTBITE IF FLESH IS EXPOSED TO THE WINDY COLD FOR MORE THAN 10
OR 15 MINUTES TOMORROW MORNING.

ANY SMALL CRAFT IN THE COASTAL WATERS TONIGHT WILL SUFFER FROM
EXCESSIVE FREEZING SPRAY ACCRETION AS WELL AS GALE FORCE WINDS.

ON LAND...HIGH WINDS WITH SUSTAINED SPEEDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE LIKELY
FOR THE CAPE AND ISLANDS TONIGHT WITH POSSIBLY SEVERE BLOWING AND
DRIFTING IF HALF A FOOT OF SNOW ACCUMULATES ON PARTS OF THE OUTER
CAPE AND NANTUCKET. BLOWING AND DRIFTING WILL ALSO OCCUR ON
INTERIOR HIGH TERRAIN LATER TONIGHT.

HARBOR ICE IS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING AND WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND IN
COVERAGE.

SNOW WILL BE ENDING FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST THIS MORNING...
POSSIBLY WITH AMOUNTS LESS THAN FORECAST OVER ALL BUT THE SOUTH
COASTAL ISLANDS. SNOW SQUALLS MAY DEVELOP AND AFFECT BLOCK ISLAND AND
MARTHAS VINEYARD...DESPITE THE SHORT FETCH...DUE TO EXTREMELY
UNSTABLE AIR AS THE CORE OF THE COLD ROLLS SOUTHEAST AND ACTIVATES
THE OCEAN EFFECT PROCESSES. OTHERWISE HEAVY SNOW SQUALLS ARE
FORECAST ON PARTS OF THE OUTER CAPE AND NANTUCKET...ESPECIALLY NEAR
AND AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOCATING THESE BANDS IN ADVANCE IS SUBJECT TO LOW
LEVEL WIND DIRECTIONS..BUT MUCH OF THE CAPE MAY RECEIVE ONLY A
DUSTING WHILE A FEW MILE WIDE SWATH COULD HAVE OVER HAFL A FOOT...
SIMILAR TO THE BANDS THAT DEVELOP OFF THE GREAT LAKES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
DAY ONE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE INTO THE BEGINNING OF DAY 2. THAT
INCLUDES GALES...DANGEROUS WIND CHILL THROUGH FORENOON...HIGH
WIND ON THE CAPE AND NANTUCKET.

THE ARCTIC AIRMASS WILL MODERATE THIS WEEKEND.

SNOW IS POSSIBLE SUNDAY...RIGHT NOW NOT A BIG STORM BUT THIS NEEDS
TO BE WATCHED A BIT FOR AN ACCUMULATION.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER REPORTS ARE REQUESTED THURSDAY FOR SNOWFALL AMOUNTS 2 INCHES
AND GREATER.

tergiversation \tuhr-jiv-uhr-SAY-shuhn\, noun:

1. The act of practicing evasion or of being deliberately ambiguous.
2. The act of abandoning a party or cause.

Tergiversation comes from Latin tergiversatus, past participle of tergiversari, "to turn one's back, to shift," from tergum, "back" + versare, frequentative of vertere, "to turn." The verb form is tergiversate.

James Joyce died January 13, 1941.

This heart that flutters near my heart
MY hope and all my riches is,
Unhappy when we draw apart
And happy between kiss and kiss;
My hope and all my riches—yes!—
And all my happiness.

For there, as in some mossy nest
The wrens will divers treasures keep,
I laid those treasures I possessed
Ere that mine eyes had learned to weep.
Shall we not be as wise as they
Though love live but a day?

Anne Hathaway

"Item I gyve unto my wief my second best bed..."

I want a copy of Mountain Sisters for my un-birthday.