Jacob Siefring
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public library worker. editor @ the empyrean series. translator of some books (FR->EN). ottawa, ontario. | jsief.com
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"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room."
Vintage paperback book cover of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely, c. 1943.
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dreamsofbeing.bsky.social
“Although I write about the world of the eternal, please do not get the impression that I have been there myself.”

(found in an old Romanian magazine from the 1930s; author name indecipherable)
jsief.bsky.social
the vapors at upper duck island
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the postal situation up here in canada is Not Good. it will return but no one will ever have confidence in it again
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oh no! i’m terribly sorry to hear that. i am thinking of him & you & hoping for him to get the treatment & recovery he needs
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i didn’t know he had a book coming out! this looks rad
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Dan Elkind's DR. CHIZHEVSKY'S CHANDELIER is terrific. If you're in Atlanta on Oct 18 you should go to A Cappella Books to hear him talk about it.
www.acappellabooks.com/pages/events...
www.acappellabooks.com
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looking at animals, as here, a rooster. i wonder if they can lie? i think not
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I hope the Nobel goes to an elderly poet who we all assumed had died years ago.
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“It was not raining.”
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my 8-yr-old son is telling his younger bro abt “the endless void we live in”. attaboy
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they say he liked to stick his tongue out at it. or the Underground Man did, or somebody
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it would be nice to have a functioning postal service. if confidence wasn't shot before I reckon it's pretty shot by now
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in the mornings you can feel the anxiety machine starting up
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« In short, we really want *something*; we don't want to merely live in the city of God, but to enlarge it. »

Jean Paul, tr. Fleming
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yes, officer, it looked just like that