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Dan Klyn

@danklyn.bsky.social

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spatial hermeneutics liker The movement of living language is constantly resisting the fixity of bald and final statements. (Palmer 1969) https://about.me/danklyn

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 7h

I must be among thousands who got into Oscar Wilde because: The Smiths

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 7h

like when David Cameron wanted to like The Smiths and Johnny Marr said that Mr. Cameron is in fact not allowed to like The Smiths...

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 7h

Churchill famously unhesitatingly named Oscar Wilde as the one personage from all of history to dine with

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 7h

This is good writing

joincolossus.com/article/flou...

Flounder Mode

Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work

joincolossus.com

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 10h

Restoration story: www.sgh.com/project/univ...

University of Michigan, Cooley Memorial Fountain

SGH performed a condition assessment and designed a comprehensive project to restore the Cooley Memorial Fountain.

www.sgh.com

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 11h

Hey Wolverines, if like me you love this sculpture by Carl Milles, there's a nice writeup on its 85 year install-a-versary

record.umich.edu/articles/it-...

Sunday Morning In Deep Waters (bronze fountain sculpture of Triton and his retinue) in Ingalls Mall, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 11h

London rules: cover your arse

Detroit rules: exhibition of one’s whole ass

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 11h

He gives us all his love

Orion is steadily moving westward and soon will be behind the neighbor’s tree when I go out to look for him

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so chuffed with @gardnergareth.bsky.social's beautiful photos of my new sculpture in Brighton...

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 1d

RETVRN

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

#medievalsky

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/a...

Looking at Sexuality With a Medieval Sensibility

www.nytimes.com

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 1d

If this was just 2 hours north of Bloomington, there'd be soup in that thermos, and a baloney sandwich + apple + napkin or paper towel in the lunchbox

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 1d

“Out on the street, wedged into most of the front seat of a motor-pool Plymouth, waited Hector's partner in those days, the seriously oversize field agent Melrose Fife.“

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Pynchon, Vineland

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 1d

Dang, son:

“Access from the street was by way of a Dutch door, whose open top half, that long-ago evening, had come to frame Hector under a ragged leather hat with a wide brim, peering through sunglasses, the darkening Pacific in pale-topped crawl below.“

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 2d

nice quoins

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 2d

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 2d

Is this a pigeon meme, guy is gesturing to a butterfly captioned "never ending parade of tasks" and is saying "is this a life?"

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 2d

T/y

Interlibrary loan notice: Your request for When the Earth was green: plants, animals, and evolution's
greatest romance / Riley Black. was successful.
Your request will be delivered to Circulation Desk at Georgetown
Township Public Lib when it is available.

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hollanlee @hollanlee.bsky.social · 2d

I’m a librarian in a big corporation and everyone reads the same 20 books. Sapiens is one of those. 🙄

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 2d

Ophelia was rescued from a tragic end by love

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 2d

lol

Feature on website to cover up spoilers with a graphic featuring Darth Vader’s helmet and the words: I can handle the truth

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 2d

runner up: Riverboat, Van Dyke Parks covering Allen Toussaint

youtu.be/NUWXTm_YlNA?...

Van Dyke Parks - Riverboat

YouTube video by Naoyoshi K-Spectacularsurf

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 2d

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

Sailin' Shoes, Van Dyke Parks covering Little Feat

youtu.be/iC-zwRxNhNs?...

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 2d

his would be an international holiday, naturally …

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

Carlo Scarpa!

Scarpa’s Olivetti store on the Piazza San Marco in his hometown, Venice

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 3d

Still time to sign up for 6 consecutive Tuesdays introducing ourselves to information architecture; live on the computer

understandinggroup.com/remote-works...

Slides for our 1st session are coming along..
informationagnosia.com/class/fall25...

Former student o mine? Email me for a free reg code

TUG's Fall 2025 Intro to Information Architecture Class with Dan Klyn

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