Davis Thompson

AP English Lit, IB English Lit, and TOK teacher; @PoetryOutLoud and Shakespeare. "And like Billy Bray, I go my way . . ."

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@PhilKlay I particularly did not enjoy learning of this subculture from my own Alabamian students.

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@PhilKlay Happy birthday!

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@fxxfy The best. That cozy cozy ending.

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@PhilKlay "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / my sense as though of hemlock I had drunk,"

https://t.co/M8zJ5caYLO

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@PhilKlay @PodManifesto @bdmcclay @BaskinJon "Well, one time she fell in love; the next minute--in an apparently unrelated event--an unprecedented short person play with a roller skate on the floor [her grandchild]. Without this new one she had absurdly considered her life full."

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@PhilKlay @PodManifesto @bdmcclay @BaskinJon "Those loving years, and their persistence, must also be credited. People used to die so young! Maybe lasting love is a rare evolutionary lagniappe. Anthropologists say almost every human culture on earth gives lip service, and lip service only, to monogamy"

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@PhilKlay @PodManifesto @bdmcclay @BaskinJon I was trying so hard to finish the audio before the episode dropped. Oh well. The book is so fun and fascinating. I'll catch up soon enough :)

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@AmericanGwyn Just finished it today on your recommendation long ago. It was incredible. Thank you for the rec.

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@jessnevins He is amazing as Charley in the Dustin Hoffman Death of a Salesman production. Warm, kind, generous, funny—the best. You could not ask for a better portrayal of a good man.

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So proud of my student, Emily Biaz--4th Alabama Poetry Out Loud state champion from Auburn High School @AHSAuburnTigers @PoetryOutLoud @PoetryOutLoud2 She's amazing. https://t.co/kHkqdXFj2z

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It's Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day at my high school. A little Yeats is in mine.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY was released 55 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the greatest and most influential films to come out of Hollywood, the making of story behind Stanley Kubrick’s classic is as epic as the film itself.

A THREAD

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@PhilKlay A character in Chekhov's "The Seagull" claims that Maupassant fled from the Eiffel Tower because its vulgarity was "pulverizing his brain." How, if you live in Paris, do you "run away" from the Eiffel Tower? :)