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The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. John Keats #bookbirds 📚🐦 💙 Reading: AnActOfSharedSolitude https://readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

Ryan Ruby is MISSED! Here's a chance to reconnect with him again!!! newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Ryan Ruby, Post-American Blues — Sidecar

On Thomas Pynchon.

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 11h

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 13h

We had a blast!

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 14h

@paperpills10.bsky.social I just found this podcast on Henry James. Made me think about our recent-ish shared read:

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Novel Approaches: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 2025-10-05 · 58m

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

That's me! The so-called naive reader is the ideal one 😇

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 15h

Interview with Michael Lentz: On his literary influences, the genesis of Schattenfroh, two Bosches, Kabbalah, the German Baroque, U.S. readers, and a new big project

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Interview with Michael Lentz: On his literary influences, the genesis of Schattenfroh, two Bosches, Kabbalah, the German Baroque, U.S. readers, and a new big project

Michael Lentz at the Poesiefestival Berlin. Image by Kritzolina. I would like to start by asking you about your literary influences. Which writers have influenced you the most and what did you find…

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

I dreamt of beer,I say,the dream went like this:Then she said to me that you must drink a liter of warm beer & yes,in your one man tent,in the midday heat,garbed in a sweater, the entrance tightly
shut,nothing else ought to come into the tent,for it soon to be drunk dry #Lentz25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

and therefore does not
comply with the Rheinheitsgebot. The beast marked a sign of memory
in my forehead: "Drink Cologne beer, o man_of Cologne!"
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh @bartlebeer

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

And the beast mocked that I had sinned against the Rhineland by drinking
Bavarian beer-and, indeed, it was too little to die, but too_much for
an acquittal. Bavarian beer, the other head hissed, is not brewed to
the sound of Cologne Cathedral's bell-ringing

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

Seven bottles of beer in a sealed tent with
a fever of nearly forty degrees and an exterior temperature of some
forty-two degrees is a spiritual experience that fundamentally changes
life and calls God into action.
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh
@bartlebeer

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

He emphasized that the consumption of a local beer would mean certain death, as Bavarian beer, at its finest, really is liquid bread.
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

But it only functions with
German beer because of the Reinheitsgebot; in the case of beers that
do not comply with the Reinheitsgebot, this method should be used
with caution, for one's health might be damaged. Thus did set I out on my way and search for a business that sold German beer #Lentz25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

What, again, was the name of the genius who slipped the following sentence into one of his books: 'Death is a constant
quantity-- only pain is variable and may be intensified infnitely?"
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

But what's the deal with the reality portrayed? What was merited by
that reality? What's your opinion? An age-old subject. Does literature
not tamper with reality here?"
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

So, who are these people
who've come on the scene? And what's up with Radisav's feet? Do you
really have no idea what's going on here?"
"It's literature'"
"OK. Literature. And what causes you to recognize that?"
"The strange names."
"Strange names equals literature.
#Lentz25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

Do you know who Nobody is? The
one who did that to the cyclops. That was Nobodyius. You too have a
long odyssey before you. You shall voyage through body and soul. You
shall be Nobody, Nobody-an empty picture frame.
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

Memorizable clarity is the maxim. Here are the enemies: the uncontrollable drift of associations, the stagnation of signs and words,which generates a stockpile of identical texts and, in the process of rec
ollecting actualization, recasts shifting assignments.
#Lentz25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

The best aid to clearness of memory consists in orderly arrangement.
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

He who suffers from migraines with aura is more at risk for stroke.
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

lf the light inside of us and the light outside of us have become indistinguishable, have we grown closer to God? Let's drop that. Hildegard von Bingen had migraines with aura and hallucinations, I have migraines with aura and no hallucinations.
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

It ought to be established whether optical projections cannot be stored onto a photographic plate, thus could an end be put to fleetingness and might we go forth into our remembrances once
more. Photography is the enemy of the transitory.
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

To die thusly with lock over mouth,Atome says, thatis Nobody's lot. From now on, he is to lead my book, just as he promisedsed at the printing works. To put it frankly, he has been leading my
book all along, but circumstances now compel him to admit this out
in the open. #Lentz25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

I hadn't imagined the tower to be so high. This isnot the crumbling staircase of my dreams,nor are there any missing steps
& I don't run down the stairs from the roof then back up once more,in my dreams, the stairs are loose & the missing steps become ever more numerous #Lentz25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 15h

We are particularly proud of this well- fortified wall tower, We find
its exposed masonry to be both noble and morally appropriate, that
which comes to pass in it does not remain hidden from God,just as no
stone remains hidden from the human eye.
#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh