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The Cost of Good Movies

Posted by flannery on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:45PM
from the soaringtwenties.substack.com dept.

https://soaringtwenties.substack.com/p/the-real-cost-of-good-movies-and

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Materials for 17th-century Work, a la Follansbee

Posted by flannery on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:40PM
from the blog.lostartpress.com dept.

https://blog.lostartpress.com/2023/04/25/materials-for-17th-century-work-a-la-follansbee/

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Re:Full CFTC Complaint Against SBF, Caroline Ellison, and Gary Wang on Thursday December 22, 2022 @01:03AM (#34090323)

test

My Taipei Quarantine

Posted by flannery on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @03:39PM
from the idlewords.com dept.

https://idlewords.com/2022/4/my_taipei_quarantine.htm

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Internet addiction: The emergence of a new clinical disorder (1996) [pdf]

Posted by flannery on Monday December 06, 2021 @11:53PM
from the netaddiction.com dept.

https://www.netaddiction.com/articles/newdisorder.pdf

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How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils

Posted by flannery on Sunday August 01, 2021 @10:52AM
from the hastyreader.com dept.

https://hastyreader.com/how-to-summon-and-sell-your-soul-to-satan-and-other-devils/

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Beowulf: A New Translation

Posted by flannery on Thursday December 31, 2020 @03:12PM
from the us.macmillan.com dept.

https://us.macmillan.com/excerpt?isbn=9780374720155

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The election of the doge

Posted by flannery on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:27PM
from the generalist.academy dept.

https://generalist.academy/2020/11/06/the-election-of-the-doge/

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Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between

Posted by flannery on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:26PM
from the lrb.co.uk dept.

https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n17/toril-moi/it-isn-t-your-home

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In Ashgabat

Posted by flannery on Thursday August 27, 2020 @01:16AM
from the lrb.co.uk dept.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n15/james-lomax/diary

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Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate

Posted by flannery on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @02:35AM
from the thecritic.co.uk dept.

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/april-2020/a-puritan-but-not-a-fanatic/

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Five things we need to know about technological change (1998) [pdf]

Posted by flannery on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @03:49PM
from the web.cs.ucdavis.edu dept.

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/postman.pdf

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Memory Palaces: Outsider Artists

Posted by flannery on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:41PM
from the nybooks.com dept.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/memory-palaces-outsider-artists/

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Metternich’s strength in law

Posted by flannery on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:17PM
from the newcriterion.com dept.

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/11/metternichs-strength-in-law

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Rimbaud Draws New Followers to the Hometown He Hated

Posted by flannery on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:58PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/world/europe/france-rimbaud-poetry.html

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Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135 (1993)

Posted by flannery on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:27AM
from the theparisreview.org dept.

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1887/don-delillo-the-art-of-fiction-no-135-don-delillo

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Re:How the Great Truth Dawned on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:16PM (#20797206)

That doesn't contradict the article. Literary truth is its own thing.

Albert Camus: Humanism and Tragedy

Posted by flannery on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:22PM
from the hopkinsreview.jhu.edu dept.

https://hopkinsreview.jhu.edu/current-issue/albert-camus-humanism-and-tragedy/

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In Picasso’s Studio

Posted by flannery on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:27PM
from the lithub.com dept.

https://lithub.com/in-pablo-picassos-studio-during-the-nazi-occupation-of-paris/

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Re:A mysterious crystal that melts at two different temperatures on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:21PM (#20126164)

Authors and their characters don't believe the same things.

Foucault in California

Posted by flannery on Thursday May 16, 2019 @03:56PM
from the the-tls.co.uk dept.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/michel-foucault-lsd-death-valley/

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I Work with Suicidal Farmers

Posted by flannery on Sunday April 28, 2019 @05:24PM
from the newrepublic.com dept.

https://newrepublic.com/article/153604/work-suicidal-farmers-its-becoming-much-bear

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Hallucinations Are Everywhere (2018)

Posted by flannery on Monday March 25, 2019 @01:56AM
from the theatlantic.com dept.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/hallucinations-hearing-voices-reality-debate/571819/?single_page=true

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The Color Orange

Posted by flannery on Friday February 22, 2019 @11:14PM
from the mymodernmet.com dept.

https://mymodernmet.com/history-color-orange/

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Why Iris Murdoch Matters

Posted by flannery on Sunday January 13, 2019 @03:00PM
from the lareviewofbooks.org dept.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/innumerable-intentions-and-charms-on-gary-brownings-why-iris-murdoch-matters/

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Denis Johnson's God

Posted by flannery on Saturday December 08, 2018 @03:05PM
from the lithub.com dept.

https://lithub.com/looking-for-god-in-the-writing-of-denis-johnson/

( Read More... | 1 comment | 26 points | on HN )

Italy’s Oldest Musical Instrument Hints at Sounds of Prehistoric Rome

Posted by flannery on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:47PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/arts/music/italy-prehistoric-musical-instrument.html

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A Flannery O’Connor Reading List

Posted by flannery on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:30PM
from the laphamsquarterly.org dept.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/flannery-oconnor-reading-list

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A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon

Posted by flannery on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @04:04AM
from the vulture.com dept.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/a-premature-attempt-at-the-21st-century-literary-canon.html

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Books found in dumpster belonged to Thomas Jefferson

Posted by flannery on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:28PM
from the msn.com dept.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/he-found-15-books-in-a-sierra-dumpster-then-he-found-out-they-belonged-to-thomas-jefferson/ar-BBLd9cM

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