Irizaurus

French language coach. Gardener. Search for
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@textkritik @AntigoneJournal Sometimes those who are holding the book don't bother to leaf through it. Here in Nashville I found, in a donated book, several papers from a prominent local book reviewer whose papers are cataloged and kept at the TN State Library & Archives. I sent them to be included there.

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@Rickersam3 @Andrew_Levidis True. It happened in the early 1990s. The publisher where I then worked destroyed a huge number of warehoused books and ordered editorial & marketing to shrink the print runs drastically.

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@whsieh @Andrew_Levidis All they'd need is to put out a single subscription-based steady-revenue publication and they could support all their quality monographs and good reprints. It has NEVER been the case that each book earns back its costs. Never and nowhere. No matter how you tweak the P&L.

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Daily Nashville string instrument in the wild.

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@textkritik @fdabbb Merci!

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@fgelzer @textkritik Bei "print on demand" (POD) auffällig.

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@ithacarising What about poil? Il a un poil dans la main.... dans le sens du poil... poil au menton...

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@DAMendelsohnNYC to stand

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@humantransit @francesafetytra La mie du pain.

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Passiflora. Very much at home in mid-TN. I moved this wild one from the Richland greenway to Green Hills. It took two years, including a winter in water with rooting powder, to acclimatize it at this location. It was my pet gardening project.

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Raymond Queneau, Exercices de style (1947): primer for learning French. Recommended.

[Thomas Murphy @thomasmurphy__]

Time to reread some heavies...

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Robin's egg shell on the sidewalk.

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No longer on @Kanopy :(

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Relistening to Irene Dische's interview on @bayern2 (Nov 23, '21). By the way, your Großmama's U.S. publishers lied to you: there's not a single U.S. public librarian alive who'd object to "Spermendichte" on the 1st page: it's a lie! The gatekeepers & censors are in marketing &

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We Were So Beloved is now on Kanopy!!!! https://t.co/dnAl0coMgY

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Mine, all mine!

Note to self: don't let the bugs bite you next time in the garden.
Biting bugs appear overnight in Nashville, each year. And when they do, I go Ooops, scratch, scratch, remember long sleeves and pulling socks over the bottom of your pants next time.

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One day I'll go to Puerto Rico to look at their incunables at the Casa del Libro. Maybe next year.

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@textkritik Thank you! Delicious decision.

In just another minute, a bot might accuse you of using A.I. since the chatter right now is that the use of em-dashes is a symptom of A.I. The joke being that Emily Dickinson was the most famous user of this particular mark.

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Do Germans even use em-dashes? Me thinks FN used en-dashes and hyphens.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

This is from a book by Nietzsche, a pretty famous philosopher. Very disappointing to say the least.

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@Athens_Stranger en-dash, in other words (the Gedankenstrich)

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"'... no one is adding print volumes to their libraries,' Hill says. 'It’s a shame. There are some gems in here.'- The gems include a rare copy of the Geneva Bible ... dozens of volumes from the Loeb Classical Library ..."

[Kimberly Last @klast00]

Where Will MTS’s Books Go?
Librarian says the shuttering Memphis Theological Seminary’s 80,000 books can’t easily be sold, donated, or dumped. https://t.co/FhXK8Ecs37

[Kimberly Last @klast00]

Where Will MTS’s Books Go?
Librarian says the shuttering Memphis Theological Seminary’s 80,000 books can’t easily be sold, donated, or dumped. https://t.co/FhXK8Ecs37