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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 27m

Reminiscences of a Student's Life - Jane Ellen Harrison

McNally press, 2024, yellow cover, Greek statuary, head fragment in green

James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 18h

Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore tr. William Radice

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 4d

This is what being on the right means now and has meant for the better part of a decade. There isn't such a thing as centre right because there's no pressure on the right to compromise or dilute its proposals. Your assumption that there's a vacuum waiting to be filled is superstitious at best

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 4d

The Rifles - William T. Vollmann

Andre Deutsch cover - a map, some charts, green, some rifles, some blood

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Three rules for the arctic by william t. vollmann

1. Never wear an inner glove too thick to brush ice from eyelashes
2.keep crotch unzipped and put your hands down there in sleeping bag but don't masturbate
3. Wipe yourself with snow

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 6d

This is kinda sad

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 6d

I appreciate that under clickhole posts on Facebook, you get an intervening voice from 'oaf's corner'

Fake Julia garner quote saying she steals books. Meta ai suggests the questions: how does this affect authors? Is this legal?

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 9d

Re last repost: that opening of Howards End is so good isn't it

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 9d

Is there anything more tantalising than the promise of an early 19th-century letter with the postscript "Burn this immediately"?

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 9d

Blair's post-genocide plans for a new Mandatory Palestine should be a delegitimising project for an entire faction of Labour. In terms of scandal by association this is far worse than anything Mandleson has done. A generation of British politicians should be haunted by the words "Gaza Trump Riviera"

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 10d

When literally nobody is trying to censor you:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/09/28/john-banville-you-cannot-censor-me-they-would-try-it-now-with-all-this-wokeist-nonsense/

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 10d

Snow Country for cold men, is my review

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 10d

Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata tr. Edward G. Seidensticker

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 14d

The Empusium: a Health Resort Horror Story - Olga Tokarczuk tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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Siân Round @sianround.bsky.social · 14d

Announcing New Welsh Voices in English Literature - a new research series at Swansea!

I wanted to devote some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk trust fellowship to promoting work by other ECRs in Wales.

I'm really looking forward to these two talks this semester, with Bridget Bartlett and Beth Pyner.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 17d

The campus is absolutely fabulous, but I think I might get bored with it after a time - there seems to be nothing but water here & there are never many people around.

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 17d

Absolutely, and there are websites if you're curious about something like fweet.org. jjda.ie by rose and o'hanlon has a 'chicken's guide'. If it helps, there's no right/normal way of reading it, either you're too slow or too fast or not polyglot enough. Miraculously, it does cohere eventually

Index of /

fweet.org

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