MichaelVegasMussman

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[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@geoffwilt It's a perversion of the high Romantic idea of an authentic "people" with their own unique soul, tied to the land. Which is how we got Nazis.

[Geoff Wilt @geoffwilt]

America’s Homer is Homer, just like the answer to Bellow’s incredibly racist question “who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?” is Tolstoy. the concept of national citizenship is created by arbitrary borders, like the concept of race is created by racism. it’s ideological mystification.

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@jakebackpack I get your devotion to Walt Whitman. For a self-published poet, he was successful, sure. But hardly a trillionaire.

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@IneluctableQuak Do you know if that mansion's still there?

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@jakebackpack Imaginary country.
Faerie land.

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@cyanidetooth I might need to double-check Wikipedia, but I'm sorta sure that millennials and Shakespeare are a few centuries apart.

[literland @literlandweb1]

Hay ciertas cosas imperdonables...

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

I look forward to the scenes where he pulls human teeth from his slaves in order to fill his rotting mouth.

[Young George Washington @washingtonmovie]

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[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@jakebackpack Er erwarb einen Doktortitel an der Universität Freiburg, und dennoch ließen sie ihn nicht in die Partei eintreten! 😢

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

At last, a fun literary hoax-scandal.

The fan fiction is highly entertaining.

[Jacqueline Sweet @JSweetLI]

Everyone keeps saying that Jamir Nazir is a totally AI-generated person, but he appears to really exist and live in Trinidad and Tobago, even if he did use allegedly AI for his award winning poetry and used AI to create a headshot.

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

Especially when you do it in reaction to some website clickbait.

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

You guys really have got to stop ranking novels. Seriously.

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

The award for flex of the year goes to @AntigoneJournal

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Much enjoyed showing @timothy_kenny around my library, talking about different sorts and sets of Classics books, the history of scholarship and publishing, and all sorts of topics that happened to come up here and there. Full YouTube video linked below (it's not short!)

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@IneluctableQuak It seems like most people have no idea how influence works. For them it's another way of saying "I consciously imitated X."

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

You mean to tell me Knausgaard is Norwegian for "keeper of the nuts"?

[Anthony Etherin @Anthony_Etherin]

WORD FACT

Latin “nucleus” (“kernel of a nut”) comes from “nucula”, a diminutive of nux (meaning “nut”). Latin “nux” and modern English “nut” share the Proto-Indo-European root *kneu-.

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@jakebackpack He is strong like lion.

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@g_e_howard Its quiet.
Then it's LOUD!
Then it goes quiet again.
Then all of a sudden it gets REALLY LOUD!!!

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@jrmamana @peligrietzer Are they hot?

[MichaelVegasMussman @faircopy]

@jaycaspiankang Where your child is 9yo or 3yo, either way she is far too young for college. She really ought to finish high school first.