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Nathanael T. Booth (he/him)
@nathanaeltbooth.bsky.social
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Pretty damn queer.

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Author, GOD AND THE GREAT DETECTIVE: ELLERY QUEEN’S STRUGGLE WITH THE DIVINE, 1945-1965 (McFarland 2023)
Co-host, THE PROJECTIONIST’S LENDING LIBRARY
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I’m enjoying SPOON RIVER AMERICA by Jason Stacy (2021) but I would like to offer my own book from 2019 as a way to complicate this particular paragraph. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/amer...
Quote: “In this way, the period roughly between the Great Depression and the end of the Second World War was a respite in the popular debate over the identity of the American small town. The “village revolt,” then, proved to be the beginning of national argument about the extent to which the ideal community, self-contained and exemplifying contemporary ideals of the good life, harbored underlying pathologies that defined the country itself.”
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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On the one hand, the Internet is a great place for finding other people who share your interests and problems.

On the other hand, it’s a recipe for the most hyperbolic doom, cycles imaginable.
Reddit post from r/tinnitus. Headline: “Tinnitus is proof that we live in a cold, uncaring universe” Text: “That can become hell in your own perception given enough ‘negative’ stimuli. This is coming from an extremely positive, fun, loving person. Hugs.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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This, from a paragraph before, might more clearly illustrate the connection I think I see.
Text excerpt: “So it may be that no one could write a really truthful story if he would, and perhaps the old fogies are right in fixing the line as to what may be set down and what must be left out. At least, I promise that the reader who proclaims his propriety the loudest, and from the highest house-top, need not have the slightest fear—or hope—about this book, for I shall watch every word with the strictest care, and the moment I find myself wandering from the beaten path I shall fetch myself up with the roundest and the quickest turn. And so, having made myself thus clear as to the plans and purposes of my story, there is no occasion to tarry longer at its threshold.”
December 2, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Not convinced Darrow isn’t a Sterne fan. (From FARMINGTON)
Text beginning mid sentence: “after all, I can tell about things only as they seem to me,—and I am not in the least sure that my childhood home, and the boys and girls with whom I played, were really like what they seem to have been, when I rub my eyes and awaken in the fairy-land that I left so long ago. So, to be perfectly honest with the reader,—which I am bound to be as long as I can and as far as I can,—I will say that this story is only a story of impressions after all. But this is doubtless the right point of view, for life consists only of impressions, and when the impressions are done the life is done.”
December 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Same energy.
Dog bonking another dog with a baseball bat with the legend “Go to horny jail”
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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This reply is *chef’s kiss*
The reply; “I’m literally Japanese. you are literally saying this to a Japanese person.”
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Bunch of teenagers on the internet. We need to get them off.
Post reading: “Do you ever worry about Japan's long standing xenophobia, toxic patriarchal masculinity, and fascism problems when supporting their ethnic cuisines? I do. A lot.”
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Also, Don Johnson as a twink gunslinger is not something I expected to encounter.
A 22-year-old Don Johnson in a black cowboy hat.
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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what perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Cover of DEAR CATASTROPHE WAITRESS by Belle and Sebastian
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Working on an article on immigration in the 1980s (kinda), so I got my hands on DETENTION EMPIRE. Lots going on here, some of it shockingly current.
Cover of DETENTION EMPIRE by Kristina Shull (a hand holding a plant in front of barbed wire)
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Anyway, this is two paragraphs before the stuff quoted in the original post. This is the person saying these things.
From Vonnegut: “He had a monograph with him, published by the German Association of Prison Officials. It was a report on the behavior in Germany of American enlisted men as prisoners of war. It was written by a former American who had risen high in the German Ministry of Propaganda. His name was Howard W. Campbell, Jr. He would later hang himself while awaiting trial as a war criminal. So it goes.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Oh, here’s one ready to hand, from Jenkins’s MYSTICS AND MESSIAHS:
“But Theosophy was more than a simple adaptation of the religions of South Asia; it combined these inextricably with Western esoteric traditions. The concept of the Ascended Master was drawn from the novels of Bulwer Lytton, which were enormously influential in the English-speaking world as well as Europe. Though Lytton is today remembered for what is commonly regarded as the worst opening line of any novel ever written (“It was a dark and stormy night...”), for contemporaries, his work excited interest as the manifesto of a learned occultist.”
September 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Heck, I think I’m in a position to make a list now.
My Trek ranking TOS Movies DS9 TNG TOS VOY SNW ENT TAS DIS TNG Movies LD PRO PIC Sec31
September 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Where the hell do these people come from? (This is in response to MH posting a link to the Coates piece on CK’s bigotry).
User worth blocking named “Shakespeare Fan” saying “Wow! That’s shocking. Luckily Mehdi Hasan has never made comments that would sound extremely inflammatory if dredged up years later”
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Truly the only interesting or relevant Kirk.
James T. Kirk
September 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Interesting to be prepping a lesson with *this* quote when all the JE birthday book stuff drops: www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/...
Quote from “Hawthorne and His Mosses”: “Certain it is, however, that this grat power of blackness in him derives its force from its appeals to that Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free. For, in certain moods, no man can weigh this world, without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.”
September 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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It’s always been pretty bad, y’all.
Passage from 1979 Esquire article describing how undocumented Mexican immigrants were denied legal services.
September 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Heck, they contradict their own claims in this very piece! What’s the point they’re trying to make, again?
“First, there’s Dynamic Duo, an animated movie about Dick Grayson and Jason Todd, the first and second people to become Batman’s sidekick Robin. Although both Dick and Jason can be made into darker, more violent characters—see any number of Nightwing and Red Hood comics, or the recent TV series Titans—the fact that Dynamic Duo is being directed by Matthew Aldrich of Coco and Lightyear makes one think that kids will be the primary audience. Then, there’s the fact that both The Batman Part II and Batman: The Brave and the Bold are being made. The former is, of course, a grounded crime picture from Matt Reeves and the latter is, presumably, a more straightforward superhero tale, with Robin returning to live action. While neither will likely be fully kiddie fare (Brave and the Bold is directed by Andrés Muschietti, who made Mama and It before taking on The Flash), their co-existence shows that DC Studios is willing to support multiple versions of its big characters with different styles for different audiences.”
August 31, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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I’m watching MARLOWE (1969) and of course I’m partly interested in the MYRA BRECKINRIDGE reference!
IMDb trivia: “In the nightclub, Marlowe (James Garner) takes a sip of wine and, smirking, judges it to be "impertinent... even baroque." These were the exact words which a character in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge (published a year earlier) had used to describe Garner's butt in an excerpt from an obtuse film journal which appeared in the novel. Obviously, this was an inside joke and from Garner's smarmy delivery of what was otherwise a pointless remark, he was very much in on the gag.”
August 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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My favorite Doctor and companion
Douglas and Reynolds as Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp in GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL
August 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Someone sent me this and I think it might be the only worthwhile contribution to culture that’s come out of the whole stupid controversy.
BOB from TWIN PEAKS reclines beneath the words “Bob Has Great Genes”
August 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Dang it, I’m too late for the “we shouldn’t judge people with AI partners” meme.
Aoba and Ren (a robot/AI who looks like a puppy) from DRAMATICAL MURDER, a BL visual novel.
July 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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One of the benefits of being with a Sichuan person is…lots of hot pot.
Hot pot unmelted Hot pot melted
July 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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These guys all wish they had the rizz of Ludwig II
Ludwig II’s grotto
July 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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I didn’t spend a significant chunk of my time revising and re-revising this paper to have a computer shit out a “review” of it.

This madness *has* to stop.
July 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM