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Yells like Ghosts @yellslikegoats.bsky.social · Feb 13

Peter Ackroyd opens his history of England in the 19th century: “Cant was the moral cloud which covered the nineteenth century. It was part of the age of respectability.”

I think this about framing all the time.

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Parade for the inanimate carbon rod from The Simpsons

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Give me the Auberon Waugh!

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The Thomas Foster books are very accessible. Also the George Saunders Russian short fiction book.

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The Voir Valley in the Dire region

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Stanley Kubrick tried to warn us about AI: it makes robots sad.

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Croup is going around so watch out if you’re two.

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Dusting off my Kraznohorkai books. They’re not old just near the cat litter.

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Tone is basically the only thing that matters.

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Check your Zeck

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Workroom personalities that talk in a radius and simply try to pull somebody, anybody into their orbit.

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It’s a metaphor comparing Taylor Swift to another metaphor.

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Centrists:

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I don’t know who this guy is but I am sure the vape shop he runs is doing fine without your help.

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Not even all that old

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It’s funny that LK is kind of a safe choice along with maybe Cartarescu while Rushdie or Murakami are out there since they’re less likely to be picked. I hope it’s Murnane who is a fantastic writer I enjoy reading versus Krasznohorkai who is a fantastic writer I don’t enjoy reading.

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I read it. It’s not bad or anything but it’s very light.

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David Peace has no shot

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tell me those three sweet words: “Continue without supporting”

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Everyone should have one confused relationship/love triangle where someone alludes you to some literary romance that you think is sweet until you realize much much later meant you were doomed.

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Ha I just posted this too

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Staunton

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When someone says something couldn’t be further from the truth I have to assume it was fairly close to the truth.

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God would i never want Laura Kipnis to have a book i wrote in her sights.

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His contract should call for Jordon Hudson to be interim coach

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You should be able to find out what diseases you had as a kid without talking to your parents