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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 4h

looking at animals, as here, a rooster. i wonder if they can lie? i think not

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 16h

I hope the Nobel goes to an elderly poet who we all assumed had died years ago.

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 8h

“It was not raining.”

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 8h

at the stables

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 10h

my 8-yr-old son is telling his younger bro abt “the endless void we live in”. attaboy

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 19h

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 20h

they say he liked to stick his tongue out at it. or the Underground Man did, or somebody

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 17d

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 1d

it would be nice to have a functioning postal service. if confidence wasn't shot before I reckon it's pretty shot by now

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 1d

in the mornings you can feel the anxiety machine starting up

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 2d

I’m getting decrepit, while Pynchon is even older | William T. Vollmann reviews Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket biblioklept.org/2025/10/06/i...

I’m getting decrepit, while Pynchon is even older | William T. Vollmann reviews Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket

I’ve avoided reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s newest novel Shadow Ticket, but I couldn’t help but read William T. Vollmann’s piece on the novel at UnHerd. From Vollmann’s r…

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 2d

Today's mood.

Winged stone angel collapsed, arms akimbo, over tombstone with the inscription "Died Roma, Jan 7 1896"

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · Jan 7

« In short, we really want *something*; we don't want to merely live in the city of God, but to enlarge it. »

Jean Paul, tr. Fleming

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 3d

yes, officer, it looked just like that

Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 3d

BOOK_A.BMF

A closed photo album. Red picks it up from the coffee table and pages through it. Family reunions in matching t-shirts, beach resorts with closeups of parrots and frozen cocktails, the Grand Canyon, unimaginably vast in real life but reduced on the page to two inches of stone and sky. Red thinks it is a nice photo album. Red thinks it is a nice house. Red thinks it is a nice family. Red slides one photograph from the plastic sleeve of the album and slips it into a pocket. He gently sets the photo album down on the table. He leaves the house the way he came in, silently, in the dark, through an unlocked door.

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 3d

thanks cait!

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 3d

i hadn't thought of that! ok i'll think of one

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 3d

ten minutes left to wish me a happy 42nd birthday. although I have always viewed time as elastic

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 3d

the dollar store of ideas

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 4d

Craven Ord. Ichabod Twilight. real names to watch out for

Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 4d

I have to be careful about this sort of thing because last time I got intrigued by an 18th century name it was Craven Ord and now I’ve got a whole research project about him that involves William Blake, copperplate engravings, and primary sources so hefty they need to be brought to my desk on a cart

Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 4d

Historical novel about Black Revolutionary War veteran Ichabod Twilight when?

If that’s not a name for a well-researched Bildungsroman, IDK what is

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 4d

plus intéressant que que la fameuse clip des Lumières

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 4d

Reading books, visiting museums, or simply stopping short before the vast, gold umbrella of some chestnut tree in mid-autumn, aren’t we always, in a sense, looking for ourselves?

-Gustaf Sobin

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 4d

it’s probably a neuter (genderless) urge, idk. i feel it tho

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 4d

the masculine urge to lie down on the earth & let invertebrates begin the slow process of decomposition

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 4d

virginia woolf could write

from "street haunting": How beautiful a London street is then, with its islands of light, and its long groves of darkness,
and on one side of it perhaps some tree–sprinkled, grass–grown space where night is folding
herself to sleep naturally and, as one passes the iron railing, one hears those little cracklings and
stirrings of leaf and twig which seem to suppose the silence of fields all round them, an owl
hooting, and far away the rattle of a train in the valley. But this is London, we are reminded; high
among the bare trees are hung oblong frames of reddish yellow light—windows; there are points
of brilliance burning steadily like low stars—lamps; this empty ground, which holds the country
in it and its peace, is only a London square, set about by offices and houses where at this hour
fierce lights burn over maps, over documents, over desks where clerks sit turning with wetted
forefinger the files of endless correspondences; or more suffusedly the firelight wavers and the
lamplight falls upon the privacy of some drawing–room, its easy chairs, its papers, its china, its
inlaid table, and the figure of a woman, accurately measuring out the precise number of spoons
of tea which——She looks at the door as if she heard a ring downstairs and somebody asking, is
she in?

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 4d

everybody knows abt the V formation of geese in flight but last week down by the river i spotted abt a hundred of them in a Sierpiński triangle formation, several tiers of Vs. of course i was sans camera but i thought u should know

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