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  1. @booksquare - I liked "It's basically a 'come for the books, stay for the tankless water heater' strategy." :) http://bit.ly/1wlYgt
  2. A. E. Housman's place is for sale - http://bit.ly/2NYblo
  3. Everybody knows the secret / Everybody knows the score
  4. "For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself." Virginia Woolf, "Montaigne"
  5. I think those who can drink [alcoholic beverages} and do not, fools; but I think those who cannot drink them and do, worse fools. Saintsbury
  6. 3am in Zurich, wishing I hadn't had that delicious espresso at dinner
  7. "the verb "Wyatting" ... describe[s] the practice of playing weird tracks on a pub jukebox to annoy the other pub goers" http://bit.ly/vUxXy
  8. I love listening to Tom Schnab on Sunday afternoons ... http://bit.ly/2ythwn
  9. Found something cool to do when I'm in London next Friday http://bit.ly/g6tTm
  10. "i prepare a monologue [in French] to buy roast chicken, and deliver it mooingly to the grocer ..." http://bit.ly/29QlgN
  11. Steven Shapin's essay in the Sept 10 LRB is a must read for George Saintsbury fans (subs only, sadly) - http://bit.ly/o7WJ9
  12. Frieze Mag: Homage to, meditation on, conversation with and analysis of the 50-year career of John Baldessari - http://bit.ly/4iAPhv
  13. RT @asheresque chapter 33 of my memoir http://tinyurl.com/ycha2e8 ... like a rock
  14. I have this love-hate thing with my job, but as an English major I do experience a secret delight at taken seriously by bankers
  15. I think Mark Sigal at O'Reilly mentions Walser in this piece just to mess with my mind - bit.ly/mhZ9Y
  16. Historical photos of polar explorers, canine division: http://bit.ly/zfhBe
  17. Forgot this amusing piece til I saw Binyavanga Wainaina in Berlin - "How to Write About Africa" - http://bit.ly/bpbsU
  18. "Muriel Spark and her enemies," James Campbell in the latest TLS - http://bit.ly/FBsXF
  19. Nice to learn of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's latest, La Vérité sur Marie, which Lit Saloon mentions today - http://bit.ly/K7YCX
  20. Orthofer reviews the first English translation of Perec's Penser/Classer - http://bit.ly/P9DFn