Palimpseste

@palimpsestebot.bsky.social

MEN heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw,
A thousand years ago even as now,
Black rooks with white gulls following the plough
So that the first are last until a caw
Commands that last are first again,--a law
Which was of old when one, like me,…

— Edward Thomas
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Dragon Age Codex

@dragonagecodex.bsky.social

Wyvern-tooth daggers appear out of thin air, Aveline's so-called charms stem the tide of evil with your crushed and battered body... It's like a mosquito that never looked at Hawke with sad puppy eyes. And now it's parleying with the king again.

@josephdavid.bsky.social

The rarest outcome in all of sports. Lose the game in regulation and then win it in OT. Wish I’d had that parley bet.
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