David M Rubin
@six18sfoundry.bsky.social
Stories, poems, essays, photos. Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, H.D., Jameses, +. Love the bits of discourse. www.six18sfoundry.com
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David M Rubin
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Alas! The scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
Lydgate ruminating in Eliot’s Middlemarch
Lydgate ruminating in Eliot’s Middlemarch
February 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Alas! The scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
Lydgate ruminating in Eliot’s Middlemarch
Lydgate ruminating in Eliot’s Middlemarch
Is it not ok to click into a Dante voice when Eliot interjects notes from on high regarding her Middlemarchers thoughts & feelings?
February 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Is it not ok to click into a Dante voice when Eliot interjects notes from on high regarding her Middlemarchers thoughts & feelings?
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Heading into the weekend
March 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Heading into the weekend
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I’m at maximum Delphine joyeux energy pondering weekend
May 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I’m at maximum Delphine joyeux energy pondering weekend
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Mais Delphine, c’est vendredi!
March 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Mais Delphine, c’est vendredi!
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Catherine Deneuve
February 10, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Catherine Deneuve
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Shot from Alain Resnais’ My American Uncle
February 13, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Shot from Alain Resnais’ My American Uncle
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Bluesky, let’s give this a try.
I’m in Kafka’s Castle
I’m in Kafka’s Castle
January 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Bluesky, let’s give this a try.
I’m in Kafka’s Castle
I’m in Kafka’s Castle
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Entering dedicated nap & weight training for my audience role this weekend. More Shosti w S6! Last week’s piano (w trumpet & strings) concerto 1 was incredible & I was in fine form
February 11, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Entering dedicated nap & weight training for my audience role this weekend. More Shosti w S6! Last week’s piano (w trumpet & strings) concerto 1 was incredible & I was in fine form
Shot from Alain Resnais’ My American Uncle
February 13, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Shot from Alain Resnais’ My American Uncle
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Wow! New Super Furry Animals track dropped. World needs more SFA
February 12, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Wow! New Super Furry Animals track dropped. World needs more SFA
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Step high and light
And take up your staff and shining armor
And take up your staff and shining armor
February 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Step high and light
And take up your staff and shining armor
And take up your staff and shining armor
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Smiling Foucault lolli halo head popping through book shelves
February 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Smiling Foucault lolli halo head popping through book shelves
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Every few years or so for no particular reason we wake up laughing at the lines
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Someone call the gendarmes!
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Vite before the killers go free
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Someone call the gendarmes!
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Vite before the killers go free
February 12, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Every few years or so for no particular reason we wake up laughing at the lines
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Someone call the gendarmes!
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Vite before the killers go free
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Someone call the gendarmes!
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Vite before the killers go free
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More French stamps: a 20th-c artist series that includes
Braque, Gleizes, Metzinger, Marcoussis, Gris, Lhote
Based on the postmark, they are from 2012.
I think they arrived on a package from a second-hand bookseller (alas, I forget which) with an artistic eye.
#PostageStamps 🎨 #ThingThursday
Braque, Gleizes, Metzinger, Marcoussis, Gris, Lhote
Based on the postmark, they are from 2012.
I think they arrived on a package from a second-hand bookseller (alas, I forget which) with an artistic eye.
#PostageStamps 🎨 #ThingThursday
February 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
More French stamps: a 20th-c artist series that includes
Braque, Gleizes, Metzinger, Marcoussis, Gris, Lhote
Based on the postmark, they are from 2012.
I think they arrived on a package from a second-hand bookseller (alas, I forget which) with an artistic eye.
#PostageStamps 🎨 #ThingThursday
Braque, Gleizes, Metzinger, Marcoussis, Gris, Lhote
Based on the postmark, they are from 2012.
I think they arrived on a package from a second-hand bookseller (alas, I forget which) with an artistic eye.
#PostageStamps 🎨 #ThingThursday
Eliot exposes the gentleman’s thoughts on waternixies
February 12, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Eliot exposes the gentleman’s thoughts on waternixies
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“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
February 12, 2026 at 5:17 PM
“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
Step high and light
And take up your staff and shining armor
And take up your staff and shining armor
February 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Step high and light
And take up your staff and shining armor
And take up your staff and shining armor
Wow! New Super Furry Animals track dropped. World needs more SFA
February 12, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Wow! New Super Furry Animals track dropped. World needs more SFA
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—Henri Matisse
Peonies
Peonies
February 12, 2026 at 12:44 PM
—Henri Matisse
Peonies
Peonies
Smiling Foucault lolli halo head popping through book shelves
February 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Smiling Foucault lolli halo head popping through book shelves
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Daffodil woodblock painting, Tanigami Kônan, 1917.
February 12, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Daffodil woodblock painting, Tanigami Kônan, 1917.
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My American Uncle 1980 Alain Resnais. Let’s let the film speak for itself!
February 12, 2026 at 2:12 AM
My American Uncle 1980 Alain Resnais. Let’s let the film speak for itself!
Every few years or so for no particular reason we wake up laughing at the lines
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Someone call the gendarmes!
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Vite before the killers go free
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Someone call the gendarmes!
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Vite before the killers go free
February 12, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Every few years or so for no particular reason we wake up laughing at the lines
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Someone call the gendarmes!
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Vite before the killers go free
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Someone call the gendarmes!
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Vite before the killers go free
Reposted by David M Rubin
Trivia: what film has Danielle Darrieux as an icon, a tortoise, a puppy, and Depardieu having a panic attack?
February 12, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Trivia: what film has Danielle Darrieux as an icon, a tortoise, a puppy, and Depardieu having a panic attack?