Ite domum saturae, venit Hesperus, venit capellae.

very cool photo which I haven't seen before!

Not seen: A farmer with a boat and a bag of grain scrumpling up his plans and throwing them away in a tearful fit of defeated pique

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Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

He gets that a Pertelot

not THAT brute, a different brute

He named that after his favourite Iris Murdoch novel

Me to customer: "Have you read Volume 3? You may not know this, but it's a bad idea to marry somebody just because they can supply you with drugs. Just a tip."

might go & see and ballet or an opera later, y'know

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Day of the Fronds

I wrote this only a few days ago: warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2026/03/les-...

Who all up writing Perec tributes dawg? Gilbert Adair?

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He minds you somewhat of a juggler, balancing a long staff on his chin.

holding old timer bats so they can still feel like flappy lads is some real heartwarming stuff

That should have been RECEIT/Page missing for abbreviated win

yesterdays

me: "By the way, this novel you've just bought is a tribute to THIS. By an author who was born 90 years ago today."

Roz Chast, from this week’s New Yorker

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crowhurst vibes

THE THREADSMAN HAS JUST KNOCKED AT MY DOOR!! OH CHRIST JESUS NO!!!!

How it started/how it’s going

This is a great list www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Fado alexandrino blew my mind BITD www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

This is genuinely mind-boggling www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

lol

yes I said receip

A nice variation, from somebody who's clearly been through this experience "Can I have a receip, in case there's a page missing?" #IfOnAWintersNight etc

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“When I was small,” said Frog, “my mother and father and I went out for a picnic. On the way home we lost our way. My mother was worried. ‘We must get home,’ she said. ‘We do not want to meet the old Dark Frog.’

Sharrock's come in on his electric loom

According to Hector the barber, "All this shit starts with E..." -SK, Revival ch 4 Is this album a reference to Cosmic horror revelation that everything—death, eternity, and the "null"—is predicated on the letter E, often interpreted as "Everything is Nothing"?

Ich, wenn im Nutellaglas noch Reste sind..

I should have thought of this

If you go to the gym (!), I imagine Side 1 would be a good shout

Elf Uhr.

Just put Catch-22 in our window

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Everything on this album is in E

Come on VO - lest I may again have to reach for The British Bryological Society's Special Volume No.4, Mosses in English Literature. www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Anything but a man asleep there.

This wild & crazy guy was born 90 years ago today

Can I just issue the biggest LOL of all time at this point?