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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 12h

And I’m going to read him. Will start with Melancholy of Resistance.
But a 7h film seems a bit …erm …long? This is coming from long-winded, long-winded tolerant, and cinema loving me.
Short version: that’s a no from me :D

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

The sort of cartoon you'd expect to see from me

www.worldofmoose.com/products/con...

Cartoon showing a man reading from a dictionary to another. He says "So, it turns out confirmation bias means exactly what I expected it to mean|"

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@filosophy.bsky.social @filosophy.bsky.social · 17h

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 15h

And that’s called a motorboat? Didn’t know that. I still have much to learn lol. As to her: trying to forget her, and the soup she probably really is in, and the much bigger misery of what women do to themselves, and…*exits sobbing* :D

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 15h

Why?

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 16h

Case in point for the frequency illusion aka the Baader-Meinhof bias :D

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 16h

But in this case that would be good news as it would lead to mass reduction. So if she complains about a strange dragging pain, I can tranquillise her and mention that it’s only some mild Hawking Radiation.
So glad we talked about it :)))

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 16h

But of course! Most probable development. You just saved a life or 300 👍🙏

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 16h

A very generously bosomed young lady is following me now, and asks to be my girl.
The gravitational pull of her most striking feature must be enormous: is this a cry for help?What shall I do??😳

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 16h

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

3/20 Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Man, 1470

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

A young man in a black headdress and a red high-necked garment

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 17h

Very difficult to choose, but maybe the Self Portrait as Bacchus. It always moved me and still does

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 19h

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 19h

I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! (no I didn’t)
#NobelLiterature #Krasznahorkai

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

Can Xue or László Krasznahorkai
#Nobel #Literature #amreading

Caption: Nobel prize in literature faqs
Panel 1. Stick man at desk, speech bubble is sad face.

NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE FAQS
I DIDN'T WIN. What do I do now?

> THERE'S ALWRYS NEXT YEAR! WHY NOT VISIT OUR "TEN TOP TIPS AND TRICKS FOR WINNING A NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE" SECTION?

Panel 2. Two people, one wearing a crown.
I GOT A NOBEL FROM THE KING OF BELGIUM. WHY DOESN'T IT WORK?

> OUR PRIZE IS GIVEN BY THE KING OF SWEDEN. WE HAVE REPEATEDLY ASKED
KING PHILIPPE TO REFRAIN FROM HIS LITTLE JOKE, BUT TO NO AVAIL

Panel 3. Stick man walking, with thought bubble of a stick of dynamite.
ISN'T IT DANGEROUS TO PUT DYNAMITE
IN THE MEDALS?

> THE MEDALS ARE MADE OF GOLD. THE INCLUSION OF DYNAMITE IS A LIE, SPREAD BY THE NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

Panel 4. Stick man sitting as a puff of dust rolls his way.
A GANG OF SCIENCE LAUREATES TOOK MY MEDAL AND RAN OFF
WHAT CAN I DO?

> SADLY, THIS IS NOT UNCOMMON, PLEASE SPEAK TO A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE WHO WILL ADMONISH THE PERPETRATORS.

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klaus radke @kradke.bsky.social · 1d

Who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Amitav Ghosh, László Krasznahorkai, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Enrique Vila-Matas are the bookmakers' favorites

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

Who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Amitav Ghosh, László Krasznahorkai, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Enrique Vila-Matas are the bookmakers’ favorites

english.elpais.com

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 21h

sun sea sky

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 1d

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

2/20
Marc Chagall, Paradise, 1961

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

In mainly intense shades of blue, in no particular order and among others: a bird, a lion, a dog, an angel, red and purple flowers, a couple embracing , a rabbit, fish, a person sitting cross-legged, a figure floating or swimming, a cocoon, a snake, another figure……..

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Also, this is a good film
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQR...

Un homme de têtes (or The Four Troublesome Heads) by Georges Melies, 1898

YouTube video by The Lucky Dog Picturehouse

www.youtube.com

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Linquette is among the performers listed here. She seems cool
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/musicisti/

Musicians | Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival

festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Rather, [boniment']s a kind of ecstatic patter, near to the brink of Dada, and in the case of “Le Raid,” in Bologna, it was delivered with whoops, ululations, and ineffable glee by the actress Julie Linquette.

David Waywell @davidwaywell.bsky.social · 1d

Here you go. web.archive.org/web/20251004...

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.

web.archive.org

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

1/20
Andrea Kowch, An Invitation, 2013

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

Four young women around a tea table. Three of them seem to be somewhere else completely. The fourth is looking directly at the viewer. There’s mayhem going on.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!!!!
But…
there’s habit, and there’s the palate and joy and delight in eating, and there’s this presumption that as crown of creation we’re the top predators…and even if you see through all this, it’s the combination of all of the above, and 😫
You transporting those DELICIOUS cheeses by bike:👏🏼👍

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 3d

INFINITE PALINDROME

…cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so c…

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 2d

This and every poem from Montale's Ossi di Seppia (Cuttlefish Bones) should have your full attention!
Galassi also does a superb job translating the Italian poet

poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 3d

Eugenio Montale
What a man, what a poet...
From his Ossi di seppia, tr. Galassi

And walking in the dazzling sun,
feel with sad amazement
that all life and its torment
consists in following along a wall
with broken bottle shards imbedded in the top.

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