mbattles
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@ the novel will have died only when people no longer bother to talk about the death of the novel.
40 minutes ago
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RT @: RT @: Germans in the Woods Beautiful animation of a WWII vet's experience
7:04 AM Nov 14th
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Forget the Wave invite; get yourself a data wall. (link via @)
6:38 AM Nov 14th
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The savage reader soldiers on: who's the bricoleur? (*you* da bricoleur...)
6:12 AM Nov 14th
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@ send spambots packing!
9:47 AM Nov 13th
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gnomic calm: the internet is not killing anything
4:23 AM Nov 13th
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Stories, fey spirits, & the rumors of war:
8:13 AM Nov 11th
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RT @: Because it's good to think about civilians, too: Death Fugue - Paul Celan -
5:31 AM Nov 11th
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RT @: Because it's good to read it every year: Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen -
5:31 AM Nov 11th
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Et per se, con per se, tiddle tiddle est.
5:30 AM Nov 11th
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@ excellent post on Ellen Raskin, thx. On my desk a copy of Steiner, Language & Silence (1970) w/ same Garamond amp on cover!
5:07 AM Nov 11th
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watch out, Sponge Bob: Li'l Cthulhu waits dreaming:
9:38 AM Nov 10th
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@, @: thanks for the RTs, me packmates...
8:24 AM Nov 10th
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@ there are two kinds of people: those in the ampersand business, & those who don't know they're in the ampersand business.
8:15 AM Nov 10th
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Running in the woods, a feral epiphany
8:13 AM Nov 10th
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@ it didn't go over the top for me until he started cutting the finger tabs...
9:34 PM Nov 9th
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@ that sense of mediumship retains a power in the folk phenomenology of artists (& keeps some from going mad!)
6:27 PM Nov 9th
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To Lévi-Strauss, myth "thinks" by using our minds as medium. Creepy—until you think, oh yeah, that's what the whole Muses thing is about...
6:20 PM Nov 9th
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@ @ penny dreadful:scooter::Lost Symbol:Hummer
5:43 PM Nov 9th
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@ even paperbacks aren't all of a piece; mass-markets are like mp3s w/fishy DRM (in the form of bad paper/binding, return policies).
2:36 PM Nov 9th
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- Name Matthew Battles
- Location Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
- Web http://mbattles.p...
- Bio I write and teach about history, language, and nature. Author of Library: An Unquiet History (WW Norton), I'm working on a natural history of handwriting
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