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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 27m

I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! (no I didn’t)
#NobelLiterature #Krasznahorkai

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 9h

Can Xue or László Krasznahorkai
#Nobel #Literature #amreading

Caption: Nobel prize in literature faqs
Panel 1. Stick man at desk, speech bubble is sad face.

NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE FAQS
I DIDN'T WIN. What do I do now?

> THERE'S ALWRYS NEXT YEAR! WHY NOT VISIT OUR "TEN TOP TIPS AND TRICKS FOR WINNING A NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE" SECTION?

Panel 2. Two people, one wearing a crown.
I GOT A NOBEL FROM THE KING OF BELGIUM. WHY DOESN'T IT WORK?

> OUR PRIZE IS GIVEN BY THE KING OF SWEDEN. WE HAVE REPEATEDLY ASKED
KING PHILIPPE TO REFRAIN FROM HIS LITTLE JOKE, BUT TO NO AVAIL

Panel 3. Stick man walking, with thought bubble of a stick of dynamite.
ISN'T IT DANGEROUS TO PUT DYNAMITE
IN THE MEDALS?

> THE MEDALS ARE MADE OF GOLD. THE INCLUSION OF DYNAMITE IS A LIE, SPREAD BY THE NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

Panel 4. Stick man sitting as a puff of dust rolls his way.
A GANG OF SCIENCE LAUREATES TOOK MY MEDAL AND RAN OFF
WHAT CAN I DO?

> SADLY, THIS IS NOT UNCOMMON, PLEASE SPEAK TO A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE WHO WILL ADMONISH THE PERPETRATORS.

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klaus radke @kradke.bsky.social · 1d

Who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Amitav Ghosh, László Krasznahorkai, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Enrique Vila-Matas are the bookmakers' favorites

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

Who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Amitav Ghosh, László Krasznahorkai, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Enrique Vila-Matas are the bookmakers’ favorites

english.elpais.com

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2h

sun sea sky

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 21h

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

2/20
Marc Chagall, Paradise, 1961

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

In mainly intense shades of blue, in no particular order and among others: a bird, a lion, a dog, an angel, red and purple flowers, a couple embracing , a rabbit, fish, a person sitting cross-legged, a figure floating or swimming, a cocoon, a snake, another figure……..

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 23h

Also, this is a good film
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQR...

Un homme de têtes (or The Four Troublesome Heads) by Georges Melies, 1898

YouTube video by The Lucky Dog Picturehouse

www.youtube.com

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 23h

Linquette is among the performers listed here. She seems cool
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/musicisti/

Musicians | Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival

festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 23h

Rather, [boniment']s a kind of ecstatic patter, near to the brink of Dada, and in the case of “Le Raid,” in Bologna, it was delivered with whoops, ululations, and ineffable glee by the actress Julie Linquette.

David Waywell @davidwaywell.bsky.social · 23h

Here you go. web.archive.org/web/20251004...

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.

web.archive.org

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 1d

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

1/20
Andrea Kowch, An Invitation, 2013

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

Four young women around a tea table. Three of them seem to be somewhere else completely. The fourth is looking directly at the viewer. There’s mayhem going on.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!!!!
But…
there’s habit, and there’s the palate and joy and delight in eating, and there’s this presumption that as crown of creation we’re the top predators…and even if you see through all this, it’s the combination of all of the above, and 😫
You transporting those DELICIOUS cheeses by bike:👏🏼👍

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 3d

INFINITE PALINDROME

…cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so cosmic,
I’m so c…

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 1d

This and every poem from Montale's Ossi di Seppia (Cuttlefish Bones) should have your full attention!
Galassi also does a superb job translating the Italian poet

poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 2d

Eugenio Montale
What a man, what a poet...
From his Ossi di seppia, tr. Galassi

And walking in the dazzling sun,
feel with sad amazement
that all life and its torment
consists in following along a wall
with broken bottle shards imbedded in the top.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 1d

It’s my firm conviction (and I’ve had decades to study the problem) that we thrive both because of and in spite of our parents. Haven’t figured out the percentages yet tho

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 1d

😂😭😂 😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭
Would like to repeat that “please”🫶

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I know. Got consistency issues myself: it can only be either cute or yummy. They’re mutually exclusive.
You being the only customer who buys that cheese: but that’s excellent! 1) You help reduce food waste, and 2) help them stay in business by a)increasing their sales b)reducing their scrap :D

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, not YOU, obvs, but anyone looking for assorted perversities

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

You’re a duck. PLEASE don’t say that

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Well, for the first time after years, I had some liver last night (lung/liver, potayto/potahto), and I’d trade ten yrs of lifespan for the possibility to go on eating good cheese (and ripe cheese is the best).
WHAT the dickens should be perverse about that?
(You’re after perverse? Watch the news)

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

So now I AM really curious. Goes into my TBGTT = to be given a tentative try pile

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Man in the Moon. Fact.

Closeup of the moon with shadows that look like a face

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

About last night

Rather big yellow Harvest Moon in a pink evening sky above some sparsely tree-covered hills

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Who hasn’t… *dreamy look*
Fictional, you say? How sure are you? (scale 1 - 10000)

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

I know, it’s ridiculous. My first week on bsky I wrote them an angry email cos I couldn’t see established ART posted by an ART account doing exclusively ART. I think they had a good laugh at bsky and didn’t bother to answer. So I had to enable the porn button. Ffs. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Stuff of legends, and as such lost in the mists of time. Doesn’t matter - it’s one of the best usernames around if you ask me :)))

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Well they aren’t a piece of cake either.
It’s a match! 🥹

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