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  1. big update to the Endless Bookshelf (pictures, words, books) endlessbookshelf.net
  2. tricky, trickly, stylish : Gene Wolfe, “Six from Atlantis” & Michael Swanwick, “The Year of Three Monarchs” in The Sword & Sorcery Anthology
  3. “the best writers of sword and sorcery are the best storytellers in the fantasy field” — David Drake, in The Sword & Sorcery Anthology
  4. even better : farm fresh, sun-warmed, real strawberries from the skylands of New Jersey [the only ones to equal them are from Kent]
  5. just in, advance of: The Sword & Sorcery Anthology. [Eds. D.G. Hartwell & J. Weisman]. Tachyon, 2012. Classic tales, intro. by David Drake
  6. re : Black Box : change in traditional typeface, all the extra white space = unspoken formal innovations cc : @rudytheelder @BrendanCByrne
  7. “. . . than to accept that our lives are governed by chance” — Jennifer Egan, in the New Yorker
  8. Jennifer Egan. “Black Box”, in New Yorker issue for 4 & 11 June 2012, is most formally innovative piece I have ever seen there; it compels
  9. wow, just sold (& packed for shipment) a lovely 17th century book; the surprise is that it waited this long
  10. RT @johncoulthart: Jorge Luis Borges: "The solution to the mystery is always inferior to the mystery itself." via @BrendanCByrne [citation?]
  11. @pableauxNO we will find a way to welcome you
  12. Krugman “Mr. Ryan and Mr. Romney, then, are fake deficit hawks” & NJ Gov. Christie “just another standard fiscal phony” nytimes.com/2012/05/28/opi…
  13. @grahamsleight where's yours? what's with the squiggly brackets? you know what I mean (cc: @john_clute )
  14. Ruritania : a state of mind sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ruritania “self-conscious Medieval Futurism that shapes many future societies” cc @SFEncyclopedia
  15. somewhere, a lawnmower flies to Teeterboro airport
  16. the view from the hammock (occasional series)
  17. a vulture glides high, southward, notchwinged in thunder of unseen jet a distant transatlantic jet gleams east in silence of unseen vulture
  18. RT @BrendanCByrne : the hammock always wins.
  19. warm spring afternoon : distant friends beckon, movie theaters, and so on : but while porch floor paint dries, it is the hammock that wins
  20. at least the William @GreatDismal Gibson essay in New Yorker sf issue is outside the paywall : nyr.kr/JQXgzf (will wait for the rest)