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ME: *sits at desk and works* Just focus. Just focus. Don't look around. Do NOT look around. THE NEWS:

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Literary critic: The "gap", or occlusion, if you will, the liminal and fleeting spectre that returns to haunt us in the shape of the Real, that absent presence that animates our flickering awareness of the unreachable and unknowable Other

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Thank you!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

It's notoriously difficult to stuff an entire witch into one small container.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Best creative student response to an assignment possibly ever: the encounter between Sir Gawain and Sir Bertilak written as contemporary erotic fan fiction.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Teaching Joyce to first-years for the first time in forever, to a generation that had never heard of him before now. They are managing though! From The New Yorker, Sept 25th, 1989. Not sure of the artist.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

block lists from people whose judgement u trust

submitted 98 days ago • 11 comments

Intro English Lit final project assignment: analyze something canonical we didn't discuss in class. The choices are interesting! Several Donne fans. Cowper's "Castaway" as a fan favorite though? Yikes. One of them picked The Waste Land, but wasn't sure if it was canonical. Now I feel very very old.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Random biological fact: Sheep have rectangular eye pupils and have better peripheral vision than humans. Huh. I'm still here. Wonder what this yutz is beefing about?

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder for new users here: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

For friends who have just joined, three ways to get started: 1. Search for famous people whose ideas you value, or are fun. Add them. Follow who they follow. 2. Say amusing things on people's feeds! Post stuff yourself! 3. Find some "starter packs" Here's one to get you going. go.bsky.app/R5LGyPr

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Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those that celebrate.

submitted 103 days ago • 43 comments

All it makes me want to do is pronounce it "elly tays," to rhyme with "crudites."

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

Bored Geico ad exec: We need to get out of our gecko chambers.

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

Also disappointing: Niagara Falls (too noisy and wet. Just a bunch of water running over rocks. Nobody going over it in barrels or across on tightropes. Grand Canyon: rocks, big hole.

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

It's all been rather unexpected. Obama, glancing down at his own hands completely deadpan, like an adult choosing to completely ignore a child's antics made me snort laugh.

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments

Frame this in the FUCKING LOUVRE

submitted 188 days ago • 14 comments

"He's not the Messiah! He's just a very naughty boy."

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

riverrun, past Emmer and Johnson's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to McCarthy and Jordan.

submitted 489 days ago • 4 comments

Does anybody else pronounce the name of this place in their head "Bloosky" so it sounds like a Polish name? I do, and then end up thinking too much about John Belushi, or calling it "The Big Labluesky". My head is an exhausting place sometimes.

submitted 514 days ago • 0 comments

Not entirely sure about a swamp-colored cocktail, but the color is interesting, and this fact pleases me entirely.

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