David Macey

Writer - Translator - Researcher

studies early modern literature, translation, history of fake news and anxieties about news, history of the book, monsters.

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My piece on Milton as translator:
https://t.co/Fdk6H60LDM

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

fascinating theme!

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@johnmcinneshall Dude!

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@jeffvandermeer I may have translated Romans 3:10 rather freely there. My Greek is rusty.

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@jeffvandermeer Does anyone? No, for as the good book says, "There is none skink-worthy, no, not one."

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Writers, readers, anthologists--lend me yours recs:

What are stories that feature haunted/spooky/demonic books? I'm talking Necronomicons, Kings in Yellow, and Books of Sand. That jazz.

[ARCHIVED - NASA Moon @NASAMoon]

“I’ve got the world in my window.”

Michael Collins snapped this photo of the lunar module returning to the command module after landing on the Moon. With the Earth in the background, all of humanity is in this photograph, save Collins himself.

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@SFD85 You've betrayed the most important [headless, ursine] figure in all of English letters.

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@noraj_williams Lots and lots of pamphlets. The plays can't really compete at this batshit level.

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@HensloweAsaBlog @noraj_williams There's good scholarship on this very pamphlet.

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@dnmcinnis Spooky skull with muttonchops.

[Damien Kempf @DamienKempf]

Does this look like an appropriate father/son interaction to you?

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@gavinplumley @friendschurches @britishlibrary Also a copy or two at the Folger, if memory serves.

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@SFD85 But they don't know how I feel.

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@GoingMedieval Who did the amazing hit job on the middle ages' reputation/popular representation?

[Damien Kempf @DamienKempf]

All is well

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@DrLindseyFitz Bart was ripped.

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@RobGMacfarlane The only landmark that asks to speak to your manager.

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@emilieideas @EcotoneMagazine I did. I was like, man, this rips, oh hang on.