nuns in the sun

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knoweth not the hour? now you do!

Show don't tell...a thread Well, yes I once turned off a TV drama about Elizabeth I owing to long, empty exposition - Spain, Reformation, unmarried Queen. ‘In medias res!’ I moaned, thinking of Shakespeare's fine paradigm: ‘I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.' But…

Just a counterpoint. I think the genius of language resides in people generally. It's a natural phenomenon of wit, humor, truth-telling. Poets don't own it, they don't always work so hard either. They simply have a gift for embellishing what ALL people do with words.

abstract concrete

the new "new 1848" The Rage of Dominic Cummings www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...

rippling

Rapture I once saw Debbie Harry play a v small acoustic gig in the basement of a Buddhist museum it had recently emerged that Alastair Cook's bones had been stolen after his death & sold for bone grafts she said she'd met Cook a couple of times, then held up a copy of that day's Daily News...

Chaplin & Max Linder goofing about Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles, 1917 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkS...

abstract concrete

"How do you make a Haaland golem?" sounds like a Xmas cracker joke

Max Ernst, The Sea (Marine), 1928

bullfight boardgame illustrated by JG Posada

yet to see an Avenue of February 29

the Halls of Moctezuma / the shores of Trípoli

The Book of Grass By Tarkovsky senior 💔 I am not a ray of light beyond your vision, I'm a house in ruins from the war. Not a house on the high rampart, I am the memory of your home.

a film you consider "perfect" The Big Swallow (1901)

"Locomotion" startling 15-minute history of British railways (1975, dir. Geoffrey Jones, comp. Don Fraser) www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1321...

sometimes wondered what Salinas actually did all day during his bisarre Irish exile go for brisk walks on the beach, watch racing on Sky Sports or what? Texas Monthly 1999 has a rare anecdote, of him seeking out a literary theorist in UCD www.texasobserver.org/305-so-far-f...

"Locomotion" startling 15-minute history of British railways (1975, dir. Geoffrey Jones, comp. Don Fraser) www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1321...

I suspect this is often due to interference from a 3rd language (in this case FR, v close to SP on the cognitive waveband)

vol. 1 is missing, sth to look out for

it evolved as hotel room service leftovers camouflage

phrase always seems kind of menacing: "Things are changing round here, mister, lemme tell you. Thats the last free article you're going to be reading..."

book with no visible water damage at all

hysteria on the road

for you, we source the v finest, v freshest horseshit

there should also be a *True-Friend-Wrongly-Suspected* where for some reason you persistently reject a true-friend word and incorrectly use an adjacent true cognate

I verily am a stout-headed, weaker- bowelled, and O! most pitiably weak-hearted animal! Coleridge, Notebooks 1804

all weakheart shall drop, blood deh www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9sc...

Tarkovsky gets drunk, shaves off moustache

Coleridge Notebooks 1806: "the Self contains a Prison-Yard within – wherein the Inmates walk and contemplate the Sky"

my Thoughts move like a pregnant Polypus in sprouting Time, clung all over with young Polypi (Coleridge, Notebooks, Feb 1805)

From Buber-Neumann’s “Under Two Dictators”. Just devastating.

The performative absurdity of border controls on the German-French are on full display between Kehl and Strasbourg. Traffic jams on the Pont d’Europe with police controls and a tram whizzing by with passengers commuting between the two countries.

a starling can live for up to 900 years but you won't find a word about it on the BB so-called C

startled house

William Carlos Williams

30-second traffic light tightrope juggler

OVERWRITTEN (nouns added to eliminate computer-related uses)

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)

well oiled

a certain kind of Anglophone journalism about 🇲🇽 some by Mexicans, some by foreigners which counteracts US racism towards 🇲🇽 by recycling self-serving national 🇲🇽 myths* better than racism, but the myths remain myths *e.g 🇲🇽 as an inherently solidaristic society, brimming with amor & cariño

Hungarian–French photographer and filmmaker Brassaï (Gyula Halász) La Magie, Graffiti Série VIII. 1933 #Brassaï #Photography

Lines #fotografia #photography #urbangaze #scape #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines #river #reflection #water

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

corridor cactus

the New Selected has far fewer poems than the old Selected which makes the old Selected seem like the Retrospectively Rejected