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  1. @HolyGod (On "going on hiatus") How will We be able to tell? (Perhaps things will be a little calmer.) about 7 hours ago from web in reply to HolyGod
  2. Wm Burroughs and the "Prolonged Sleep Cure" http://tinyurl.com/ylnzfug about 7 hours ago from web
  3. For those with interests in Bill Burroughs: a Wordle and trasncript of Dutch Shultz' last words. http://tinyurl.com/yefz59e 8:57 PM Nov 20th from web
  4. The truth behind cuckoo's nests and my one meeting with Ken Kesey. http://tinyurl.com/yjhhvnw 7:51 PM Nov 19th from web
  5. Some good thinking:: Poe, Babbage, Lovelace and thinking machines, 1830's. http://tinyurl.com/ycpdqt2 10:57 AM Nov 18th from web
  6. @WWIIToday Japan subs. Thanx! Read about the I-201. Oy. Nice subplot for NYC attack in '45. 3:39 PM Nov 17th from web in reply to WWIIToday
  7. @mmmeares Giant Foods. Good! In our old neighborhood it was "GIANT FOO ", the "D" gone missing long ago. 3:37 PM Nov 17th from web in reply to mmmeares
  8. @pattidigh you want more/bigger? Here yea go: http://tinyurl.com/ydekwo4 10:53 AM Nov 17th from web in reply to pattidigh
  9. The best arts dollar the U.S. gov't ever spent? http://tinyurl.com/y9qjofe 10:32 AM Nov 17th from web
  10. What *were* those "volume(s) of forgotten lore" of Poe? http://tinyurl.com/y8g766x 10:27 AM Nov 17th from web
  11. @pattidigh "Large coffee" isn't "large" anymore, it isn't even "small". Its a new size: "stupid". http://tinyurl.com/ybf6y82 10:18 AM Nov 17th from web in reply to pattidigh
  12. @Frauenfelder http://bit.ly/2RQETS Shaved beard. My daughters get upset even when I trim. 4:58 PM Nov 16th from web in reply to Frauenfelder
  13. Wm S Burroughs skeletal self-portrait, 1981. http://tinyurl.com/y9k4tyc 7:40 AM Nov 15th from web
  14. @BibliOdyssey Japanese Mandalas: their complexity reminds me of Chinese Hell Scrolls. Apples+Oranges I know, but, well, there you have it. 8:35 PM Nov 14th from web in reply to BibliOdyssey
  15. @paynith Thanks for this! Got a Billy B. postlet tomorrow. 8:32 PM Nov 14th from web in reply to paynith
  16. Newest addition to my History of Blank & Missing Things thread http://tinyurl.com/ybzrh9p 8:28 PM Nov 14th from web
  17. On the Big Lie and Stupendous deceit. Happlyand in post-Apocalypse America (1962) http://tinyurl.com/yad57gw 8:18 PM Nov 11th from web
  18. @HISTORY_Daily Yr ads on his site would give it some spine and credence whether you endorse or not. That is insufferable. 12:05 PM Nov 10th from web in reply to HISTORY_Daily
  19. @HISTORY_Daily Pulling Beck ds. Had I known yr ads were on his site I'd dumped u guys. He burns select pgs in select bks and is no historian 12:04 PM Nov 10th from web in reply to HISTORY_Daily
  20. Finding Dada in 17th century emblem books. http://tinyurl.com/yc65mmg 8:48 AM Nov 10th from web
  • Name John Ptak
  • Location Asheville, NC
  • Web http://historyofi...
  • Bio Bookseller of Classics in the History of Science & Submerged Social Ephemera. Writer. Author of History of Ideas blog.
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