matthewadams.bsky.social
Writer. Walker. Critic. Frustrated lighthouse keeper.
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MacNeice liked it, too!
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*eBays*
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What is it *like* using a chainsaw? I imagine a mixture of terror, power, mania. (Perhaps I shouldn’t be allowed to use one.)
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🙂
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It feels properer and properer, to solitary me.
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I am still blinking (wincing).
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Well. I still think it is JOLLY GOOD.
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I thought that was a Holbein!
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You must write this.
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I’m sorry to hear that, Kate. What terribly sad news. Much love to you x
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An insolvency of pitching?
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Also my Iliad is on the Audible list as one of the 18 Best Fiction Audiobooks of the year, thanks to the incredible performance by Audra MacDonald. If any book is designed to be heard, it's the Iliad. www.audible.com/blog/article...
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Also my/Homer's Iliad is a Notable Work of Fiction from 2023, in WaPo. Go Homer!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...
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Iliad Book 2:
Greek leaders make leadership slips,
but they crush all dissent with their whips.
Zeus sends a strange dream -
things are not as they seem.
Stay awake for the long list of ships.
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Love to you, Sarah xx
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Moderation never has been a strong point!
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Lovely to see you here, Sarah x
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Thomas Hardy also good in both prose and verse.
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My memory might not be serving me (or you) well here, but I think I remember George Eliot writing well about trees, and Emily Brontë doing so about their absence (and occasional presence).