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[Lili Marlene]

Wahey

Philip Pullman unveils epic fantasy trilogy The Book of Dust


head on him these days

 

[pete]

The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript - The New Yorker

The solution to the Voynich manuscript | Nicholas Gibbs

 

[Lili Marlene]

The solution to the Voynich manuscript | Nicholas Gibbs

Well now.
Look at that.

 

[pete]

Well now.
Look at that.

Seems plausible but I've read some comments to the effect that without the index it proves nothing. Hopefully someone picks up on it and sees it through.

 

[pete]

oh well

So much for that Voynich manuscript “solution”

 

[Lili Marlene]

oh well

So much for that Voynich manuscript “solution”

personally i'm relieved

 

[Lili Marlene]

40 Books for 40 Years: Rob Doyle gives us his top 10 books since 1977 | Features | Book News | Hot Press


40 Books for 40 Years: Claire Kilroy gives us top 10 books since 1977 | Features | Book News | Hot Press

40 Books for 40 Years: Mike McCormack gives us his top 10 books since 1977 | Features | Book News | Hot Press


hmmmmmmmmmmmm

I wouldn't even know where to begin.



(the other 10 are paywalled)

 

[jonah]

ugggggggggggggggggh. Atomized. Uuuuuuuuuuuuggggggh.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the Brits are at it again
Brontë Society member's resignation over Lily Cole derided as 'snobbery'

 

[Lili Marlene]

How about they disband the society and put the money into libraries so people can still fuppin read the Bronte's in the first place?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Love it when these fuddy-duddy literary Brit-bores resign from their stupid societies and panels when someone who once wore a tracksuit joins or a book with cursing wins a prize

 

[nooleen]

 

[Lili Marlene]

Did I ever post this? Part of a great letter to the London Review of Books in 2012:

why (do) the first sentences of so many stories in the Best American series follow the same formula. Start with the words ‘when’ or ‘after’; mention the first name of a character; dangle a pronoun with no antecedent; drop one heavy symbol or allusion; and use vaguely abstract phrasing to lay out a fairly banal situation. Here’s the first sentence of Maile Meloy’s story ‘Demeter’, about splitting child custody, in the 19 November issue of the New Yorker: ‘When they divided up the year, Demeter chose, for her own, the months when the days start getting longer.’ It’s odd that so many students told ‘find your voice’ so often find the same one.


ruins so many short stories.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Did I ever post this?

You because I started seeing that style of writing everywhere just after you posted it the last time. It made me more conscious about my own writing (a good thing).

 

[Lili Marlene]

You because I started seeing that style of writing everywhere just after you posted it the last time. It made me more conscious about my own writing (a good thing).

ah grand. Yeah it's a real "can't be unseen" way of looking at short stories. Still accurate though!

 

[nooleen]

it makes me think of wes anderson. now i'm irritated.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

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[nooleen]

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[Lili Marlene]

David Duchovny: I’ve written a book based on Cuchulainn


it's like something from Waterford Whispers

 

[Lili Marlene]

Seven Books I’ll Never Read


there is of course controversy

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I'm thinking of maybe finally reading Infinite Jest for the first time this year.