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@pulpcurry.bsky.social speaks highly of this one too

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Movies you’ve watched more than six times, gifs only

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How do you picture Jane Eyre's wedding dress? Might you be wrong? The link with Dorothy L Sayers (yes, again) & Harriet's dress, & the fur coat - - and a surprise for me & maybe others clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/02/jane...

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Now playing this, which never fails to cheer me up

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‘Not as niche as it sounds’ - A Place of Our Own by June Thomas looks at 6 spaces where lesbians met over the years, and is heart-warming, life-affirming, sometimes heart-breaking - with universal human relevance. Bars, bookstores, softball, communes... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-pl...

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Diogenes with sound advice for dealing with billionaires. From Herakleitos and Diogenes, translated by Guy Davenport

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Now playing. (Every day is Fred Hopkins Appreciation Day tbh)

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many many worries also disappear with wind-swept snow Wada Kyūtarō (1893-1928) This is Kyutaro’s final, “death haiku” before committing suicide in prison (see the thread for more context). もろもろの悩みも消ゆる雪の風 moromoro no nayami mo kiyuru yuki no kaze 1/n #haiku

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🧵 Depending on where you are in the world, it might already be February 4, 2025—and if it isn’t, it will be soon. So happy 100th birthday to the waves and particles that used to be Russell Hoban! Thanks for all the beautiful words and for helping to enlarge the limited-reality consensus. #Hoban100

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Lock screen spirit guide

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Thanks to Bluesky comrades who helped me out, and this is a reminder that The Pickwick Papers is a great book.

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Anyone know the source of this Dickens reference in a Michael Innes story?

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A row of awnings – darkness settles down upon the movie district — Yamaguchi Seishi (1901-1994) 日蔽やキネマの衢鬱然と hiōi ya kinema no chimata utsuzen to from The Essence of Modern Haiku: 300 Poems by Seishi Yamaguchi translated by Takashi Kodaira and Alfred H. Marks #haiku #俳句

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nice thing from a good website if you are interested in translation fleursdumal.org/poem/125

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Listen to Dean

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more wintriness Virginia Woolf, from ‘The Waves’

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“grouillant de cupidités et de désespoirs”

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Baudelaire greets the New Year. English version by Martin Sorrell

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Still the greatest letter ever printed in Melody Maker. Lol and indeed lolz.

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The extrovert, prancing around, dying for a bit of fun - that's the person you've got to be wary of.

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