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  1. @Kcecelia That's what GK does, too--plays irony against his sincerity.
  2. I don't know ANY of these... RT @PD_Smith: The decade's best unread books http://bit.ly/4TOD05
  3. RT @dirkjohnson: Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall (ed.), *Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition* http://bit.ly/53SBO9
  4. RT @slominski: The Brain: What Is the Speed of Thought? http://j.mp/7v7Yld
  5. The pleasure of opening an English bookshop in 1959: Penelope Fitzgerald (born 17 December 1916): http://mhsteger.tumblr.com/
  6. @Kcecelia @ClassicBookworm Yes, you can imagine a Guy Noir character going on about this! We live in a weirdly earnest world at the moment.
  7. @Kcecelia He has been making fun of all denominations for decades! He has been making fun of himself for decades!
  8. @Kcecelia @ClassicBookworm The whole thing (except end) was sarcastic/ ironic, making fun of the 'put-the-Christ-into-Christmas' crowd.
  9. @Kcecelia @ClassicBookworm The irony is that my friends say Keillor is too tame; and I always say, 'No, he does like to bite!' He can offend
  10. @Kcecelia @ClassicBookworm Dare I say I found the Keillor piece funny? The reference to Irving Berlin reminded me of Portnoy's Complaint...
  11. RT @sdv_duras: RT @jppastor: Hegel’s Hypertext http://bit.ly/8Ss6id
  12. RT @tcarmody: The Year in Mathematical Ideas http://is.gd/5rzCF
  13. Requiem for a pet mouse: RT @ubuweb: Joseph Beuys & Terry Fox (1970) [MP3]: http://is.gd/5rAYx
  14. Great Romantic poem: RT @venantiuspinto: Thinking on the poetic space in Lord Ullin’s Daughter, by Campbell (1777-1844) http://bit.ly/6eBGqV
  15. RT @not_yet: Butter found in Scott’s hut in Antarctica: “It's amazing how strong the smell is after nearly 100 years." http://is.gd/5rBZD
  16. Brilliant: RT @McSweeneysBooks: Shakespeare characters' letters to Santa: http://bit.ly/5U6KcS
  17. One of the most striking, and moving, documents in the history of Western music: Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament: http://bit.ly/6Hj83V
  18. The Kreutzer Sonata, Beethoven and Tolstoy: http://bit.ly/7oDbTQ
  19. RT @BurroughsBot: RT @markwolfe “Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.” - William S. Burroughs
  20. @BECKintl Quite right! 239th year... Thank you!