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Thomas J. Kitson
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Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · Dec 31
I'm happy this little volume came out this year. (Still working to find a publisher for all of _PhiloSophia_.) But I'm also glad I got to meet Sezgin Boynik in October, and I hope you'll consider purchasing any of the editions published by Rab-Rab Press.
www.rabrab.net/titles/biebao5
bie bao zaum series volume 5 — Rab-Rab Press
www.rabrab.net
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gettheorion.bsky.social
When reporting ICE activity, remember your SALUTE:

Size of group
Action / Activity, what theyre doing.
Location, Address, cross street
Uniforms / clothing
Time & date
Equipment including vehicles and weapons.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
In her heart, she knew that he didn't have much going for him apart from that shell collection. Neptune & Amphitrite, 1583, by Cornelis van Haarlem whose day is today.
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Murals at Place Jacques Demy.
Intersection in the foreground with crosswalks and several bicycles parked along the curb. On the walls of a school and schoolyard across the street are murals in bright primary colors. One is for the film "Umbrellas of Cherbourg," with red, yellow, blue, white, and light blue umbrellas (open and closed) and an embracing couple on a pink background. The middle mural is dedicated to "The Young Girls of Rochefort, with five different depictions of Gene Kelly and Françoise Dorléac dancing against a blue background. On the right is a yellow panel with blue lettering explaining the "Hommage au cinéaste Jacques Demy."
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Thomas Lovell Beddoes quoted in A.S. Byatt's _Babel Tower_ in a way that suggests we ought to have met it back in the first volume, _The Virgin in the Garden_, since Frederica brings it up as a kind of teenage talisman for imagining what love will be like.
"Love, do I love? I walk Within the brilliance of another's thought As in a glory. I was dark before As Venus' chapel in the black of night: But there was something holy in the darkness Softer and not so thick as otherwhere And as rich moonlight may be to the blind Unconsciously consoling. Then love came Like the out-bursting of a trodden star..."
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Thanks to @jamellebouie.net.
www.programmablemutter.com/p/not-popula...
Not popularism. Not deliverism. Partyism
Perhaps Democrats should consider becoming a political party?
www.programmablemutter.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
However, as it chanced, not a word was said till the Friday evening, when there came into the kitchen a labouring man, sent by his master to have some talk with the Bailiff respecting a proposed bargain.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
It's of what Kate might be made to believe."

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Pan's nocturnal rambles would have been noticed had it not been for this, though he might have come down from Jack's.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
"No—but the question isn't of that.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
So soon as they had completed the day's work they fell asleep.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
"Did he make up, the false creature, to *you*?"

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Esther acts out the discipline she imposes on herself: "What more the letter told me needs not to be repeated here. It has its own times and places in my story." #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Miss Summerson believed dead but alive. Lady Dedlock living dead. #APSTogether #BleakHouse #APublicSpace
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
An earthquake would hardly disturb the reapers.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
The amendment, however, brought Susie in, as if with gaiety, for a comfortable end.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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robertsheppard.bsky.social
Yes, Nuttall and Latham were painted blue. Sounds about right. I've written about the event several places, but here is the most recent: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/08/how-...
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
But the harvest filled their hands with work, sealed their eyes, and shut their mouths.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
"I mean if, trusted by her in strange countries, he forgets her so far as to make up to other people."

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Such inveterate gossipers would have sniffed out something, some one would have supposed this, another would have said they were not at Big Jack's, a third might have caught a glimpse of them when on the mainland.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
"And does he only 'pretend'?"

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
As men allure Doues by the beauty of the house; and reclaime Haukes by the fairenesse of the lute; so loue ioyned with vertue is able to recall the most stragling Aeneas to make sailes againe to Carthage.

#PalladisTamia #FrancisMeres
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Had it not been for the harvest something would have crept out about them among the cottagers.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
"Why, if he pretends to love her——!"

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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jacobinmag.bsky.social
New York’s incoming socialist mayor faces real fiscal constraints — but also real opportunities.

With a strong tax base, modest reforms, and a clear political mandate, Zohran Mamdani has the tools to govern.
Mayor Mamdani’s Budget Can Add Up
New York’s incoming socialist mayor faces real fiscal constraints — but also real opportunities. With a strong tax base, modest reforms, and a clear political mandate, Zohran Mamdani has the tools to govern.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
A party at Frederica Potter's in A.S. Byatt's _Babel Tower_. Thinking @robertsheppard.bsky.social must know this mention of the British Poetry Revival?
It is a good party. The voices mix, mingle and oppose. "Did you get to the poetry festival at the Albert Hall? "No, but some friends did. They said it was wild." "The audience holed and hooted. And bayed. It was pandemonium." "It was Nüremberg at times. I was there." "Jeff Nuttall and John Latham were painted blue. They were dressed as books, which they destroyed. Everyone danced." "They were all high, they were all spaced out. Adrian Mitchell read a poem about Vietnam." "It was full of enthusiasm and incredibly tedious."
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM