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plum blossom mist leaf brambleberry brookbloom. someday, together, we’ll shine

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LEOPOLD BLOOM: it says here you took 38 years off to 'wash and tub and scrub'?
INWIT: [pleasantly] yes, for my agenbite.

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@yeetismurder my favourite parts of marksons

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@delphicbitch barthes's 'proust's good fortune: from one reading to the next, we never skip the same passages' is a line that sticks with me but (i think) i have yet to internalise

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@stguac she’s saying this is a good thing

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@catacalypto thank you cat

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@delphicbitch you know i am the wrong person to ask this. it’s modelled after the wake but with wilder punctuation so of course i’m agog; i only read it in translation but i read with mostly untrammelled glee. can imagine plenty even sympathetic unwilling to stick around for 1496 pages though

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@delphicbitch when i was young i was very firm on anything under 700pp not being big but i think your definition’s much superior

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@delphicbitch this year i read and delighted in bottom’s dream which might have a stronger claim to bigness

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@delphicbitch does finnegans wake count as big

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@stguac a lot of people loved it along those lines until it actively undid all its promise. it was not so much my thing after two episodes

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@revgirlglutena friend you have no idea how much i’ve missed you! i think of your display name often often often 💜

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have you ever heard of this show called revolutionary girl utena?

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@spikyperilla humbert habitually banks on and increasingly believes his performance as mysterious continental exotic, adored at distance by a repellently unhistoried culture. nabokov needles his taste often enough i can believe his prose's similarly parodic. https://t.co/m7O4B7secL

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@gigglesnortbrah love this hair so much!!!!!

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@andrebazinga will always be glad to share appreciation!

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@andrebazinga have you read dewitt's the last samurai?

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@cafeconlethe THRILLED to hear, and also, missed you much

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@cafeconlethe also of course when newton saw an apple fall he found &c.

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@cafeconlethe his don juan is genuinely one of the best and funniest novels-in-verse i've ever read. i wish my bio could comprise all the stanzas introducing donna inez

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@spikyperilla occasionally. promoting to a *queen* will leave the other player with no legal movies, thus placing the game in stalemate—but promoting to a rook or bishop leaves an exit open, and allows checkmate some moves down the line.

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@spikyperilla a lot of puzzles rely on underpromotion

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@RainicornMax there’s a v condensed version of this, sort of, in futurama