Dubyedee

Two novels with @coronasamizdat
PhD @EnglishWarwick 2009 (published a bit on Thomas Pynchon)
For now, not here much...still active at

[Dubyedee @WD_Clarke]

Reposting/transmuting these monitory bits of critical biography as tripartite career-path/lifeplan 🧵:
(1) Deliberate self-exposure to the Vico virus

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@MorrisACollins Having the notion steadily creeping up on me these past days that I really oughta try writing about the two books I admire so much that I can't write about them: Gary Amdahl's Across My Big Brass Bed and Morris Collins's Tavern at the End of History🤔

[Dubyedee @WD_Clarke]

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with the Antichrist when JD announced that the archbishop had come to see me

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a bonesmashing Chad in possession of a polymarket account, must be in want of a foreign AI girlfriend

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@kunktation Great album
(...Also one of the best-sounding recordings I own)

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https://t.co/0Garhr1GS1

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The Novelist
(89 Words, Milan Kundera, 2025)
((A earlier draft of/supplement to a keywords list found in his The Art of the Novel, link to my midrash of which in reply))

[Dubyedee @WD_Clarke]

@MorrisACollins +That US/Can parity is SO 2013!

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As I say in my book

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Loved this essay anyhow, thanks for sharing

[chris fenwick | @[email protected] @lexipenia]

Agree with the vibes but not the detail. The central argument that true literary style is essentially the product of embodiment isn't convincingly developed. LLMs also don't just predict within individual sentences! And some weird stuff about Turing not being a logician but ASD.

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The Novel's Beauty
(Milan Kundera, 89 Words, 2025)

[Dubyedee @WD_Clarke]

Bennett is indeed a bit of an oddball, tho...I usedta teach his "Translating Literature into Life" just to stimulate discussion, but he does have a point about a need to first empathise in order to then (mixing his metaphors) "wrestle" "using all one's engine power"

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There is a gulf
(Arnold Bennett 1909)

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Virginia Woolf: James Joyce FTW

("Modern Fiction," The Common Reader I, underlinings not my own)

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[If]

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@bobblack1 @MorrisACollins @aliner @alvinlu Well, Dubliners was a young man's book, too, and—and well I just adored Horse Latitudes as well!

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Fantastic book

[Dubyedee @WD_Clarke]

Here you'll find books by Steven Moore, Alexander Theroux, as well as a growing list of corona\samizdat authors...
https://t.co/wHxucTptmr

[Dubyedee @WD_Clarke]

Been away, trying to get s/t done, but back to say that my second novel, She sang to Them, She Sang, has been reissued as an eBook by the good folks at RedFiend Pub (link in reply)

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@UncleMontyyy https://t.co/H56TEl5SvZ

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It's here (NDG, Montreal) today, finally!

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28C/82F ...So much for spring.
Here's Leonard Cohen on its evanescence in these parts:
(Beautiful Losers, 1966) [1/2]