Borges

We are ugly but we have the music.
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[Borges @forkinpaths]

Time to run with the Crocotta and Leucrocotta, beasts from whom the Hyena got its scientific name:

In Naturalis Historia, Pliny the Elder writes that the Crocotta is ‘an animal which looks as though it had been produced by the coupling of the wolf and the dog, for it can ...

[Borges @forkinpaths]

have heard this performance a hundred and more times for the enchanting harmonising

[𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 & 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 ✨ @ninhnguynt22334]

❤️Even Fleetwood Mac called this their best performance ever. The band said they've never played better than this. Not a single note was wrong. Fleetwood Mac is at the peak of their form.

[Pico Iyer @PicoIyer]

“In proportion as our inner life fails,” noted wise Thoreau, “we go more constantly and desperately to the post office.” These days known as the in-box.

[Borges @forkinpaths]

👀

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

24-year-old Jim Morrison posing with a fan in Central Park, New York (1968)

[Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney]

I've probably read this poem 100 times, but when the world seems particularly gone to hell, it still brings me to tears.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.... The wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question."
(one of my favorite novel openings, "Jane Eyre" --
perfect bleak description of rainy autumn)

[Kelly Clarkson @kellyclarkson]

Cool, cool. Sure, it wasn’t for sale. That’s the narrative Art of Play is gonna go with 👍 so the whole conversation we had when I asked you if it was for sale whilst pointing to the price tag hanging on the wall with the title Singing Bird didn’t happen as you elevator eyed me saying in a condescending tone “yes, it’s for sale but it costs 15,000 dollars so if you’d like me to find something comparable for you I can.” That all never happened and now it’s not for sale. Okay, cool. So you’re not only rude, you’re also a liar. Got it ✅
And by the way, I obviously support small businesses because I was literally at a small business trying to purchase things. I love small businesses and know they are important and I always support them, but you don’t get a free pass to treat people less than in your store just because you are a small business. It’s not that hard to be kind. I never blast people but you my friend were an exception.
Your store is really cool.
Unfortunately, you aren’t.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Kelly Clarkson responds to Art of Play’s statement which claimed they didn’t have the Singing Bird she wanted to buy for sale:

“Cool, cool. Sure, it wasn’t for sale. That’s the narrative Art of Play is gonna go with 👍 so the whole conversation we had when I asked you if it was for sale whilst pointing to the price tag hanging on the wall with the title Singing Bird didn’t happen as you elevator eyed me saying in a condescending tone “yes, it’s for sale but it costs 15,000 dollars so if you’d like me to find something comparable for you I can.” That all never happened and now it’s not for sale. Okay, cool. So you’re not only rude, you’re also a liar. Got it ✅
And by the way, I obviously support small businesses because I was literally at a small business trying to purchase things. I love small businesses and know they are important and I always support them, but you don’t get a free pass to treat people less than in your store just because you are a small business. It’s not that hard to be kind. I never blast people but you my friend were an exception.
Your store is really cool.
Unfortunately, you aren’t.”

[Lila @mhariamx]

You are all against alcohol and sugar now. But who was there when your life was falling apart? sure wasn’t salad

[Borges @forkinpaths]

Why would anyone even think of saying something so utterly stupid like this. It's apples and oranges to start with & 2 different mediums.

[The Flicktator @The_Flicktator]

Kubrick's The Shining is a better movie than King's book is a book. I said what I said.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

But that doesn't make it so.

[Black Lodge Cult @BlackLCult]

David Lynch's "LOST HIGHWAY" (1997)

[Umut Dağıstan @UmutStan]

Doris Lessing 1980'lerin başında bir çeşit sosyal deney yaptı. Jane Somers takma adıyla iki roman yazdı. Amacı basitti. İsmi olmayan bir yazar yayın dünyasında nasıl karşılanırdı? Önce kendi yayıncısı Cape'e gönderdi ilk kitabı. Cape dosyayı geri çevirdi. Başka birçok yayınevi de dosyayı geri çevirdi. Yazarın kim olduğunu bilmiyorlardı. Sonra Granada kabul etti.

Ancak ünlü bir isim taşımadığı için düşük satış rakamlarında kaldı ve eleştirmenlerin dikkatini hiç çekmedi. Lessing, 1984 yılında gerçeği kamuoyuna açıklayarak edebiyat dünyasında büyük bir tartışma başlatacaktı. Bu deney, yayıncılık sektöründe eser niteliğinden ziyade yazar etiketine verilen önemi açıkça kanıtlıyordu.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

What kind of writer is Anne Carson?

Anne Carson’s work spans poetry, prose and essays, often engaging with themes, texts, and myths from the ancient Greek world. Alongside her career as a writer, she is a professor of classics and widely known for her lectures on ancient Greek literature.

Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1950, Carson published her doctoral thesis in Classics, 'Odi et Amo Ergo Sum' ('I Hate and I Love, Therefore I Am'), in 1981. She later reworked it into the essay 'Eros the Bittersweet', in which she developed many of the ideas about desire that would shape her later writing.

For many readers, 'Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse' (1998) serves as an introduction to Carson’s work. Inspired by Geryoneis – the fragmentary poem by the ancient Greek poet Stesichorus – it reimagines Geryon, the red-winged monster slain by Heracles, as a gay teenager with wings who falls in love with Heracles and is left heartbroken.

Throughout her entire authorship, Carson has continually experimented with literary form and explored the possibilities of writing. An example of this is 'Float' (2016), twenty-two chapbooks on different subjects that can be read in any order. More recently, 'Wrong Norma' from 2024, consists of a diverse combination of texts with a strongly performative aspect in which Carson crosses over into various artistic and academic fields.

[David @davidg95_]

ESTOY EN UN BUS EN CHIPRE Y ESTÁ SONANDO ESTA CANCIÓN EN LA RADIO

[Borges @forkinpaths]

qualify with the language, 'in the English language'. English is not the sum total of this world, anglo cunt.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you would have an aneurysm if you were made to read the greatest poem of the twentieth century.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Nicolas Cage says he is “probably not going to be working with” Amazon in the future after he refused to sign a waiver for AI on ‘SPIDER-NOIR’:

“Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI. I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club.”

(https://t.co/UU73ApRipq)

[Borges @forkinpaths]

what do I keep seeing versions of this tweet? what's it to anyone if i'm performing or not with my book in public spaces.

[. @Az_capone1]

People that read books on the train are lowkey kinda performative 😭

[metamorphosingwriter @christieee_08]

read the essay – beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind by Anne Carson
https://t.co/AxkY3jm1Wu

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

So embarrassing to be reading the first page of a novel in public. That's why I always also carry a pile of books I've finished so people know I'm serious