@sandertordoir.bsky.social where is the passage in the first post from?

Though I see Achebe in there too so perhaps I’m missing something?

You could safely cut Joyce from your British fiction class anyway.

‘Poor Mexico - so far from god, and so close to the United States’

> It's a thriving subgenre in literature

Recommendations please!

Must have been some mad display, I’m 6km away and it was loud even from indoors.

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I was just asking myself the same question - sounded too deep to be fireworks!

You’re a founding member of my “funny hoors” list which migrated from Twitter and continues to deliver over here.

God yes - in my dreams I drive a Ford Taurus down a rain-slicked road overhung by towering evergreens, drinking black filter coffee in diners and sleeping in roadside motels.

I’d love some recommendations if any specifics come to mind? I’m thinking along the lines of Ballard but maybe there are others that would be interesting to take on.

I think I speak for all your Irish followers when I thank you for your dual-function apology.

It’s great stuff en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(d... - I spent a few months in Argentina - it’s omnipresent there.

*Latin speech intensifies*

Not to defend them (because I wouldn’t buy one if you paid me - and am the happy owner of an EV from a different manufacturer) the monthly data often looks like this as some months they don’t have a ship come with deliveries. Might not be the case here - but I suspect it is.

I just spent 30 minutes experiencing the same practice under a cold and slightly hazy sky in Dublin.