krakatoan

List of fictional rodents.

only real things
but their
real things

solar antapex
evidence that deserves
a varmint

periherm
perihermeneutics
i go to you masked

the guest-eructed nesselrode

AI in the real world. (via @josh_sokol via @LeeBillings)

"Irony is electing a landlord who then drives down your entire country's real estate value." --@JohnFogelsang via @JoyceCarolOates

"Before the internet, binge-watching television (“Netflix and chill”) or staring at a screen for hours a day was a sign you’d given up on yourself and the world around you..."

A rare book by Edgar Saltus came into the store. I was agog. America, of course, has hastened to obliviate all its writers--except two or three, as if to prove that we can have them--, but this one represented practically the sole slender foothold of Continental 1890s Decadence in America at the time (& until Clark Ashton Smith--), & remains an amusing stylist (mostly) worth reading, still. (His novels are weaker than his histories or philosophical works, though the nonfictional part of his works are, let us say, slightly untrustworthy. Van Vechten appreciated him, & Cather scolded him. His second wife, an author also, apparently made a Theosophist of this erstwhile notorious cynic & atheistical writer. It's a twist that would have made a good Saltus story, I think. But if he had written it, somebody would have been murdered, and the murderer left unprosecuted.

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