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Irish literary translator, editor, writer, advisory editor to the Stinging Fly, and The Paris Review, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! š
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Congratulations! Very well-deservedā¦ And a wonderful book
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āBatter my Heartā from Doctor Atomic by John Adams
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Itās not the KJV that deserves credit, but William Tyndale. Estimates suggest that the New Testament in the KJV is 83% Tyndale's words and the Pentateuch half of the Old Testament 76%
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Iād be more than happy to talk to you, DM me and we can discuss
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Some strips were almost impossible, but thatās what translators love!
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Usefully, it does not give you the standard sleeping pill hangover, does not leave you groggy, is generally well tolerated. Unfortunately, you need to source it outside the EU
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Lemborexant (brand name Dayvigo), a non-benzodiazepine, non-opioid, non-addictive sleeping pill. They recommend that you donāt take alcohol with it, but it hasnāt stopped me. I found it works quite well
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āEmily Dickinsonā by Wendy Cope:
Higgledy-piggledy
Emily Dickinson
Liked to use dashes
Instead of full stops.
Nowadays, faced with such
Idiosyncrasy,
Critics and editors
Send for the cops
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āSometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breathā
Lewis Thomas
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There are a number of things you can do, even if the company has gone into administration:
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African night flight one-time Mormon
More men fall in Hullabaloo men
I slide to the nearest bar
Undermine chairman, went too far
Bent on a windfall, rent a Sony
Wonder how the dollar went down
Got to get a word to Elizabeth's father
Hey ho, he wished me well
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He didnāt do much of the actual pulling himself, thoughā¦
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I do still have a fondness for the very overheated āRopeā
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āStage frightāā¦ I havenāt seen that for a very long time itās one that, like āTorn Curtainā, never struck a cord with me. Still waiting for someone to choose the utterly abysmal āFamily Plotā!
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Iām guessing Morrissey never thought about the influence of African guitar on Smithās music eitherā¦
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The new window at Belfast City Hall, with Lyra ā¤ļø
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And, importantly, congratulations to @andotherstories.bsky.social