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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t know what this is, but as someone with a lisp, I object to it.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 5h

AITA for Eloping with the Real Ghost of the Real Bleeding Nun

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 5h

Whomst among us hadn’t made this exact mistake

Plot detail from Matthew Lewis’s novel The Monk:

Raymond and Agnes made plans to elope before Agnes left her aunt's castle for the convent. Agnes planned to dress as the Bleeding Nun, a ghost who haunted the castle and exited its gates at midnight. Raymond accidentally eloped with the real ghost of the real Bleeding Nun.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 5h

If released today, in an era where communities deeply invested in imagined romantic pairings emerge immediately, the familial revelations of the original trilogy would be extremely unfortunate.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 1d

Let me recommend good music (if you enjoy things that are good).

Golden Reviser, by Erie Choir

9 track album

eriechoir.bandcamp.com

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 1d

“Charlotte Mandell had written the English words I was reading, whose power and beauty left me gasping and stunned.”

Bryan Alistair Charles discusses Proust in translation with translator and ALTA member Charlotte Mandell at Lit Hub: @literaryhub.bsky.social

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a tough one!

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

It is enjoyable!

Have you seen Dead and Buried?

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

Wait: if it is true you haven’t seen this: dawg it’s great.

Psycho II (1983)

Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill ag...

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

The Vanishing (1988)

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abdu...

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

Tourist Trap (1979)

After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of life-like wax mannequins.

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Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social · 2d

No doubt if the next Faulkner is anywhere, they are parking rental cars outside a small regional airport

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

"The past is never dead; it isn't even past."

"Sir, nevertheless, you returned the car after five, so we do have to charge you for a second day. Company policy."

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Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 2d

Totally, and I loved the black mass market versions, too.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

One of my life's little tragedies is a about 10 years ago I left my high school copy of Absalom, Absalom! in a rental car at a small regional airport.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

Also big fan of the little mass market ones they used to have.

A shelf of Faulkner novels organized by edition.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

This is what books should look like.

Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social · 2d

This is the ideal book design aesthetic. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Vintage Books edition of Absalom, Absalom!; heavy gold metallic paint, cursive-vs-all-caps-serifed font, and rural public domain archive photographs.

Vintage Books edition of Light in August; heavy gold metallic paint, cursive-vs-all-caps-serifed font, and rural public domain archive photographs.

Vintage Books edition of As I Lay Dying; heavy gold metallic paint, cursive-vs-all-caps-serifed font, and rural public domain archive photographs.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

I agree with this completely and totally. One of the most correct things I've seen on the Internet today.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

I'm thankful for translators like @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social who make literature like this available to me.

You have no idea how dreary my day would be without the underappreciated work of translators, endlessly opening doors on my rude little life.

David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be too much of a gooby, but I love Krasznahorkai's work and am thrilled to see him win.

This has all has put me in such a good mood this morning.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 2d

This is among his slimmest and a great starting point. It’s fantastic.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

I love this book.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 2d

sanderling inn, duck, north carolina, 1985

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

"I plan on continuing the program's storied tradition of apocalyptical bleakness."

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

Check out Gloomy Saja

M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel-laureate Krasznahorkai's archive (his "Vorlass") is at the Austrian National Library — "84 Archivboxen, 12 Kisten" www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/l... Including some of his diaries, apparently:

Some pages from Nobel laureate Krasznahorkai László's diaries.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be too much of a gooby, but I love Krasznahorkai's work and am thrilled to see him win.

This has all has put me in such a good mood this morning.

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