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Thomas J. Kitson

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Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · Dec 31

I'm happy this little volume came out this year. (Still working to find a publisher for all of _PhiloSophia_.) But I'm also glad I got to meet Sezgin Boynik in October, and I hope you'll consider purchasing any of the editions published by Rab-Rab Press.
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bie bao zaum series volume 5 — Rab-Rab Press

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 9h

To her surprise Pan, who was tied up, began to bark.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 9h

Even Aunt Maud frequently admitted that there was a good deal, for her view of him, to come up in the rear.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 9h

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Injury to Buildings and Vegetables | Alyssa Battistoni

After Milton Friedman published a 1975 compilation of writings titled There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, the phrase (lifted from Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi novel about a lunar penal colony) became s...

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 16h

But Tuesday night, after they had been for the flag basket, the inclination to follow them became too strong, and towards the middle of the night, when, as she supposed, Pan was on shore (for she had seen him swim off other nights), she approached the hut.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 16h

However, he pointed to nothing; which was very possibly just a sign of his real cleverness, one of those that the really clever had in common with the really void.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

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M.F. Corwin @eudaemonist.bsky.social · Aug 29

Study of Cirrus Clouds, ca. 1820 by John Constable, currently held by the V&A. A painting in oils of mostly wispy clouds against a remote blue sky. The painting is surrounded by a cream colored border that is not part of the painting but rather the surface on which it was photographed.

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M.F. Corwin @eudaemonist.bsky.social · Sep 9

John Constable, study of clouds, October 1822; in his words: ‘looking S.E. noon. Wind very brisk. & effect bright & fresh. Clouds. moving very fast. With occasional very bright openings to the blue’.

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M.F. Corwin @eudaemonist.bsky.social · Sep 6

‘To grow bigger every moment in your own conceit, and the world to lessen: to deify yourself at the expense of your species; to judge the world—this is the acme and supreme point of your mystery—these the true PLEASURES of SULKINESS.’ —Charles Lamb, ‘Popular Fallacies’ no. XVI

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 17h

That night was the first Pan was tied up, but nothing disturbed him.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 17h

He had been a short time in the House, on the Tory side, but had lost his seat on the first opportunity, and this was all he had to point to.

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 5d

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We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back

To meet this moment in US history, we need to revisit the rich – and successful – tradition of nonviolent disruption

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 19h

She would very probably have attempted it again on Monday night, but that evening they came with the letter and list of provisions, and having seen them and spoken to them, and having something to do for them, her restless eagerness was temporarily allayed.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 19h

She was often fantastic, but she knew a humbug, and—no, Lord Mark wasn't that.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 19h

Every time I checked betting lists for the Literature prize this year, Cărtărescu and Pynchon were adjacent to one another, sharing the same odds. A pleasing, if impossible, scenario suggested conferring the prize on them conjointly.

Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 20h

As Cats wax wood being annointed: so some wiues are mad, if their husbands vse oyntments, either because they suppose they are not healthfull, or else that they affect other women. Plutarchus.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 20h

It was the same afternoon that they looked at the oak for marks of claws, but her naked feet had left no trace.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 20h

The best thing about him, doubtless, on the whole, was that Aunt Maud believed in him.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 1d

but in the afternoon, being so much interested and eager to see what they were doing, she tried to come over again, when Mark saw her head in the sedges, Loo crouched and kept still so long they concluded there was no one there.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 1d

So soon as everything was quiet she slipped across to the mainland,

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand it was of course something of an achievement, and not open to every one, to have got one's self taken so seriously by Aunt Maud.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 1d

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Street battles, invented languages and gigs in psychiatric hospitals: France’s lost rock revolution of 1968

Bands such as Magma and Art Zoyd provided a soundtrack for the student protests that shook the country. Little remembered now, a new book reveals their decisive influence on later successes such as Ai...

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Ena Selimović @enaselimo.bsky.social · 5d

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Ena Selimović @enaselimo.bsky.social · 2d

The Turkoslavia Collective is thrilled that our contributor Hamid Ismailov (tr. Shelley Fairweather-Vega in issues 2 + 4) is the honorary chair of @wwborders.bsky.social's 2025 Gala!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 1d

He was satisfied with having discovered her, and only licked her hand.

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