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‘𝐼𝑛 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑀𝑖𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑎𝑛…’
Yes, I liked that too! In general I thought it was an excellent adaptation of a lesser (though, as I wrote above, amply adaptable) story.
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Yes, I liked that too! In general I thought it was an excellent adaptation of a lesser (though, as I wrote above, amply adaptable) story.
I thought my attempt to do it in prose is bette, though some Twitter friends didn’t agree:
bsky.app/profile/nalk...
bsky.app/profile/nalk...
𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫
There was a man dwelt by a churchyard. Whenever winter whitened the view from his window, he found himself watchful of his grave neighbors, above all on those nights when the moonlight was as cold as the wind, when they awoke, not merry, and sought warmth.
There was a man dwelt by a churchyard. Whenever winter whitened the view from his window, he found himself watchful of his grave neighbors, above all on those nights when the moonlight was as cold as the wind, when they awoke, not merry, and sought warmth.
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I thought my attempt to do it in prose is bette, though some Twitter friends didn’t agree:
bsky.app/profile/nalk...
bsky.app/profile/nalk...
However you think about the Iron Lady, nothing beats Herbert McCabe on this subject: “It is a great mystery of the universe that God loves even Margaret Thatcher.”
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
However you think about the Iron Lady, nothing beats Herbert McCabe on this subject: “It is a great mystery of the universe that God loves even Margaret Thatcher.”
Wrote a follow-up while I was away from here, spoofing a Swinburne poem I love:
𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐧
“What you mean, I ‘babble on’?
I’m wise and keen.
Wait, why have you got up and gone
Away, Faustine?”
𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐧
“What you mean, I ‘babble on’?
I’m wise and keen.
Wait, why have you got up and gone
Away, Faustine?”
December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Wrote a follow-up while I was away from here, spoofing a Swinburne poem I love:
𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐧
“What you mean, I ‘babble on’?
I’m wise and keen.
Wait, why have you got up and gone
Away, Faustine?”
𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐧
“What you mean, I ‘babble on’?
I’m wise and keen.
Wait, why have you got up and gone
Away, Faustine?”
I’m still, for better or worse, proud of this bit of Ogden-Nashing.
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I’m still, for better or worse, proud of this bit of Ogden-Nashing.
Just switch out “summer” for “winter.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Just switch out “summer” for “winter.”
Had/have such a crush on her as Ursa even though the character is a superpowered misandristic murderess. Ha.
December 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Had/have such a crush on her as Ursa even though the character is a superpowered misandristic murderess. Ha.
Love this. “He by whom one lives”—in whom we live, and move, and have our being—is as close a definition of God as we can get, alongside “I am who am.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Love this. “He by whom one lives”—in whom we live, and move, and have our being—is as close a definition of God as we can get, alongside “I am who am.”
Tried to write a ghost story in the space of a tweet.
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Tried to write a ghost story in the space of a tweet.
For the love o’ God, peace!
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
For the love o’ God, peace!