Artwork of the day 
Ruse Port
Felix Philipp Kanitz
Date: 1885; Bulgaria
Style: Naturalism
Genre: landscape,cloudscape

Word of the day 
eschew: to avoid something intentionally, or to give something up:
ruse: a trick intended to deceive someone:

Quote of the day
“Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, "You shot the ambassador?"

"You gave me the gun," protested Sounis.

"I didn't mean for you to shoot the ambassador with it!" Eugenides told him.

"Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray," murmured the magus.

"You shut up!" said Gen, laughing.”

― Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings