Alan Crozier
@alancrozier.bsky.social
Purveyor of textual transmogrifications. Born in Tyrone, living in Skåne. All opinions are my nephew’s. Pronouns: "that’s the he and the she of it" (FW).
Det heter "bons mots", Fredrik. Och till de ansvariga för Kulturfrågan Kontrapunkt: Det heter "nature morte", inte "nature mort". Ständigt denna genusväxling!
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Det heter "bons mots", Fredrik. Och till de ansvariga för Kulturfrågan Kontrapunkt: Det heter "nature morte", inte "nature mort". Ständigt denna genusväxling!
Bear in mind that this is an analogy, with the emphasis on the first four letters of that word.
September 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Bear in mind that this is an analogy, with the emphasis on the first four letters of that word.
Wikipedia suggests an interesting alternative:
September 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Wikipedia suggests an interesting alternative:
Yes it's the same Germanic word.
September 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yes it's the same Germanic word.
Det var länge sedan jag läste Gore Vidals roman.
June 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Det var länge sedan jag läste Gore Vidals roman.
Those lines gave me the idea for a book, although not a novel, aimed at Swedish readers. "Erin and Lochlann: Poetic Reflections of Ireland's Viking Age".
faethon.se/butik/erin-o...
faethon.se/butik/erin-o...
Erin och Lochlann. Poetiska speglingar av Irlands viktingatid – Bokförlaget Faethon
faethon.se
March 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Those lines gave me the idea for a book, although not a novel, aimed at Swedish readers. "Erin and Lochlann: Poetic Reflections of Ireland's Viking Age".
faethon.se/butik/erin-o...
faethon.se/butik/erin-o...
Mahler got away with this offence on a visit to Venice.
March 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Mahler got away with this offence on a visit to Venice.
Weekendavisen dimpar ner i brevlådan här varje fredag, tack och lov.
March 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Weekendavisen dimpar ner i brevlådan här varje fredag, tack och lov.
Many kings died from an excessive intake of some food combined with a deficiency of other nutrients. It was the net surfeit that killed them.
February 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Many kings died from an excessive intake of some food combined with a deficiency of other nutrients. It was the net surfeit that killed them.
And in Spanish and Portuguese they don't even bother to roll the paper. They just call a role a "papel".
February 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
And in Spanish and Portuguese they don't even bother to roll the paper. They just call a role a "papel".
"Ax" är mycket vanligt i den delen av Nordirland som jag kommer ifrån.
February 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"Ax" är mycket vanligt i den delen av Nordirland som jag kommer ifrån.
Memorable for being a Good Thing.
January 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Memorable for being a Good Thing.
It would be like the conversation between Joyce and Proust.
AS: Have you read so-and-so?
JJ: No. Have you read what's-his-name?
AS: No. Have you read thingumyjig?
JJ: No. Have you read Patrick What-do-you-Colm?
AS: No. Let's just play guitar.
JJ: Do you know "M'appari tutt'amor"?
AS: No.
AS: Have you read so-and-so?
JJ: No. Have you read what's-his-name?
AS: No. Have you read thingumyjig?
JJ: No. Have you read Patrick What-do-you-Colm?
AS: No. Let's just play guitar.
JJ: Do you know "M'appari tutt'amor"?
AS: No.
January 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It would be like the conversation between Joyce and Proust.
AS: Have you read so-and-so?
JJ: No. Have you read what's-his-name?
AS: No. Have you read thingumyjig?
JJ: No. Have you read Patrick What-do-you-Colm?
AS: No. Let's just play guitar.
JJ: Do you know "M'appari tutt'amor"?
AS: No.
AS: Have you read so-and-so?
JJ: No. Have you read what's-his-name?
AS: No. Have you read thingumyjig?
JJ: No. Have you read Patrick What-do-you-Colm?
AS: No. Let's just play guitar.
JJ: Do you know "M'appari tutt'amor"?
AS: No.
Irony doesn't need quotation marks.
January 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Irony doesn't need quotation marks.
I combined photos of James Joyce and August Strindberg playing the guitar. Then I asked Grok to imagine a dialogue between the two authors. Grok took about one second to compose this masterpiece:
January 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I combined photos of James Joyce and August Strindberg playing the guitar. Then I asked Grok to imagine a dialogue between the two authors. Grok took about one second to compose this masterpiece:
In Modern Greek it's pronounced like "me". Greek cows are so self-centred.
January 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
In Modern Greek it's pronounced like "me". Greek cows are so self-centred.
ChatGPT är en mycket pålitlig källa. Jag lärde mig mycket om Sten Broman som ingen annan tycks veta:
January 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
ChatGPT är en mycket pålitlig källa. Jag lärde mig mycket om Sten Broman som ingen annan tycks veta:
Pissing in hard frost
I studied constellations
and forgot myself.
Unpublished haiku by Seamus Heaney, retrieved from a wastebin after an appearance at a poetry festival in Malmö c. 1989.
I studied constellations
and forgot myself.
Unpublished haiku by Seamus Heaney, retrieved from a wastebin after an appearance at a poetry festival in Malmö c. 1989.
January 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Pissing in hard frost
I studied constellations
and forgot myself.
Unpublished haiku by Seamus Heaney, retrieved from a wastebin after an appearance at a poetry festival in Malmö c. 1989.
I studied constellations
and forgot myself.
Unpublished haiku by Seamus Heaney, retrieved from a wastebin after an appearance at a poetry festival in Malmö c. 1989.