mykelin
@mykelinh.bsky.social
Literature PhD student {literary history, Romantic novels, genre, publishing}
she/her {“Offer your experience as your truth” (Le Guin, “We Are Volcanoes”)}
pictured w/Sir Robin
she/her {“Offer your experience as your truth” (Le Guin, “We Are Volcanoes”)}
pictured w/Sir Robin
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mykelin
@mykelinh.bsky.social
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As I quite liked my pinned tweet over on the other site...
"We are in danger of finding our only reality in talk, in feverish activity, in feverish thirst for pleasure, in seeming to be busy in order to hide the vast loneliness that threatens to engulf us."
—Greenlaw, "A New Humanism," 1924
"We are in danger of finding our only reality in talk, in feverish activity, in feverish thirst for pleasure, in seeming to be busy in order to hide the vast loneliness that threatens to engulf us."
—Greenlaw, "A New Humanism," 1924
to add some very anecdotal data: it is difficult to find a used bookstore with more than one or two of Le Guin’s books—if there are any.
I love this version of the canon.
I love this version of the canon.
Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
to add some very anecdotal data: it is difficult to find a used bookstore with more than one or two of Le Guin’s books—if there are any.
I love this version of the canon.
I love this version of the canon.
"Reading a book well worth remembering, with the consciousness, all along, that, from the peculiar construction of your memory, you shall almost immediately forget it"
Reading from "The Miseries of Human Life" by James Beresford (1807) and relating too well.
Reading from "The Miseries of Human Life" by James Beresford (1807) and relating too well.
December 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"Reading a book well worth remembering, with the consciousness, all along, that, from the peculiar construction of your memory, you shall almost immediately forget it"
Reading from "The Miseries of Human Life" by James Beresford (1807) and relating too well.
Reading from "The Miseries of Human Life" by James Beresford (1807) and relating too well.
As I quite liked my pinned tweet over on the other site...
"We are in danger of finding our only reality in talk, in feverish activity, in feverish thirst for pleasure, in seeming to be busy in order to hide the vast loneliness that threatens to engulf us."
—Greenlaw, "A New Humanism," 1924
"We are in danger of finding our only reality in talk, in feverish activity, in feverish thirst for pleasure, in seeming to be busy in order to hide the vast loneliness that threatens to engulf us."
—Greenlaw, "A New Humanism," 1924
December 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
As I quite liked my pinned tweet over on the other site...
"We are in danger of finding our only reality in talk, in feverish activity, in feverish thirst for pleasure, in seeming to be busy in order to hide the vast loneliness that threatens to engulf us."
—Greenlaw, "A New Humanism," 1924
"We are in danger of finding our only reality in talk, in feverish activity, in feverish thirst for pleasure, in seeming to be busy in order to hide the vast loneliness that threatens to engulf us."
—Greenlaw, "A New Humanism," 1924