The King of love my Shepherd is

The King of love my Shepherd is,
Whose goodness faileth never,
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Tuscan Folk-Lore and Sketches

Tuscan Folk-Lore and Sketches, Together with Some Other Papers by Isabella M. Anderton

I read it mainly for the folk tales, which are listed up front and have some interesting variants on familiar tales. "Monte Rochettino" managed to thoroughly twist the ending of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon."

vignettes

This week's prompt is:
Angular

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term.

Aria: The Masterpiece, Volume 2

Aria: The Masterpiece, Volume 2 by Kozue Amano

Further life on the wet Mars, now known as Aqua.

Akari helps a lost visitor, learns about the gnomes that keep the gravity up to the level of Manhome (Earth), participates in the long race of gondolias that is the last event of fall, joins various celebrations, meets snow-bugs while gathering firewood, and other adventures, including a few touching on magical beings.

irony

And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don't really mean what I'm saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it's impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it's too bad it's impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today's irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean."

― David Foster Wallace