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@lagrangepoint.bsky.social
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Defoe’s Crusoe: ‘I had learned not to despair of anything’
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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around portland today
January 6, 2026 at 3:06 AM
“Ahhhgghh!” Slide rolling his eyes upward, side to side, around and around. “Do we have time for this?"
Pynchon, Shadow Ticket
December 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Now THIS is more like it ❄️
December 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Lowry does not exploit suffering but makes the human a channel through which the exuberance of being volcanically ERUPTS. The Consul resembles a body into which too much cosmos is crammed in far too little time. This is the "cry of matter", yet shaped into human experienc far from a mere tragic hero
December 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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A sense of a shared, a mountain peace seemed to fall between them; it was false, it was a lie, but for a moment it was almost as though they were returning home from marketing in days past.
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
robert deyber
Bad Hare Day serie
December 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In his 1994 book Descartes’ Error, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio showed that reason was intimately connected to emotion; one could not exist without the other. His own patients with damaged emot centers of the brain were unable to feel but still able to think - and this rendered them fully disabled
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Life forms a surface that pretends to be what it is, but underneath its skin things push and pull
Robert Musil. "The man without qualities" (1931-32)
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Mord, peeking over the mountains to the east, he sees a Norwegian lake house in the wilderness as easy prey, but he is frustrated by the fear that despite the tiny victim size, rebuff can be painful, and this leaves him hesitant and growling with displeasure
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Today on the volcano.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Ideal walkabout weather today 🍂
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Some views at the Filoli Historic House. With @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social who will post wayyyyy more photos than I will.
October 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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(can't get over the vistas)
October 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Loving Catherine Lacey's The Möebius Book so far. She's such a fine writer and mordant af.
September 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Baby rabbit and blooming daylily on Japanese island Sadogashima
@hazime13sado
June 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Lost without a compass. I am on a ship. I am on a ship, and I am going to Japan. Lost. Lost. Lost.
June 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Portland band inspired by my novel Borne, named Mordbear. Hell yeah. mordbear.bandcamp.com/album/ep
EP, by Mordbear
3 track album
mordbear.bandcamp.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Around Portland, posh edition...
May 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Its quality is too rare to be successful.

--Unknown editor rejecting Malcolm Lowry's classic Under the Volcano.
April 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Unknown organisms lurked in the depths under the thickness of the broken iceberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUo...
Climate Connections at the Ice-Sea Interface | 4K ROV Highlights
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Extract 6/18
April 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social has two shelves at Powell's downtown with several signed! It's practically a vandershrine - look at all those turned forward covers.
March 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Around Portland, in birds at the Mount Tabor reservoirs ...
February 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM