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Cody Harrison
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I would kill another Franco spy

Fiction: The Gettysburg Review, J Journal
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I believe in a reasonable rate of return
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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This is an skull rendered in the anamorphic perspective. It means you're probably in a art history lecture, but probably not nazi-related
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Who's solving the Louvre robbery?

Right answers only
Judex (1963), in which our hero Judex goes to a fancy ball dressed as a bird dramatically carrying an apparently but not actually dead dove.
October 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Now reading
October 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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It’s so shocking. I mean I know don’t trust media but when everyone and your paw paw says a guy was trash and then you realize that no , he wasn’t…honestly was a shock
September 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Speaking of St. Pius, some items I saw last time I passed the exterior altar
September 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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September 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Tommy Lee Jones in Joel Schumacher's The Client, where her does this with his hands in many different formations
September 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Have missed a few "now reading" posts, so making it up
Will Leitch's Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Book A, 8th Edition, and Muerte súbita by Álvaro Enrigue Robert Fitzgerald's The Iliad, Sir Richard Burton's lurid translation of The Arabian Nights, and the lovely poetry collection 52 Herts by Ariana Diaz
August 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
An engraving of an ancient image of the forest god Humbaba. His face was said to look like organ meat.
July 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Just found the perfect politician for the moment
July 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Now reading, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Confucius's Analects, from the library
Two Penguin Editions from the library. The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Analects. Both have the regular Penguin Editions cover with the two inches of black and the title in white italics and the orange sanserif author name. But because Gilgamesh doesn't have an author it just has the title. The cover of Gilgamesh has an image of a carving of the Bull of Heaven. The Analects has a domestic scene.
July 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Maybe the most bizarre reference to Texas in all of Borges I've seen so far (P.901 of his complete works) is him calling The Battle of the Alamo "that other Thermopylae".
The poem "Texas" from Borges Obras Completas, published in 1974. The lines in question is "Name of that those days that are not swept away: San Jacinto/and that other Thermopylae, The Alamo"
July 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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As a Houstonian, downtown was when I was a child literally empty in parts, not only was it not dense but it contained a sort of parable of non density in its core
July 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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This paragraph about the Soviet Union in the 80s is reminding me of something...
A description of the geriatric incompetence of the Soviet Politburo in the 80s in the notes of Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
July 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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When I log on, then immediately log off
VII.21 of Confucius’ Analects: “The topics the Master did not speak of were prodigies, force, disorder and gods.”
June 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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June 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Right on the money
June 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Since I was a child, I've loved the '41 adaptation of The Devil & Daniel Webster. Walter Huston delivers the devil's speech taken directly from Stephen Vincent Benét's story. It's more cynical about the nature of the Republic than the 1619 Project & was expressed under the auspices of the Hays Code
Lines from Stephen Vincent Benét's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" from the climactic trial scene. Dan'l Webster's brow looked dark as a thundercloud. "Pressed or not, you shall not have this man," he thundered. "Mr. Stone is an American citizen, and no American citizen may be forced into the service of a foreign prince. We fought England for that in '12 and we'll fight all hell for it again!" "Foreign?" said the stranger. "And who calls me a foreigner?" "Well, I never yet heard of the dev—of your claiming American citizenship," said Dan'l Webster with surprise. "And who with better right?" said the stranger, with one of his terrible smiles. "When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on her deck. Am I not in your books and stories and beliefs, from the first settlements on? Am I not spoken of, still, in every church in New England? 'Tis true the North claims me for a Southerner, and the South for a Northerner, but I am neither. I am merely an honest American like yourself—and of the best descent—for, to tell the truth, Mr. Webster, though I don't like to boast of it, my name is older in this country than yours." "Aha!" said Dan'l Webster, with the veins standing out in his forehead. "Then I stand on the Constitution! I demand a trial for my client!"
June 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Now reading, certainly my favorite heavily "genre" and "YA" guy, the apparent second most sold Spanish author after Cervantes, the tragically late Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The big soft-cover El Juego Del Ángel (The Game of the Angel) by the great Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón, it is an image of a dreary day in Barcelona with cadaverous trees in the foreground, several anonymous pedestrians on the broad sidewalk and ominous art deco buildings behind. Near the top the cover fades into a bronze. It has the words "Autor del besteller mundial con más de 10 millones de ejemplares vendidos LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO" ("The author of the international bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold The Shadow of the Wind") and the words in white una novela at the bottom.
May 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Had a theory
May 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Now reading: got this and about ten other books about linguistics from a carboard box at the college when the linguistic prof retired!
A teacher-version Introduction to Contemporary Linguistics by William O'Grady, Michael Dobrovolsky and Mark Aronoff. It has a very late 80s blue cover with a white fibrous line shooting through the center and a thin light blue stripe above it. Also a little "peel" of white on the corner with blue letters that say "Free Copy Not for Resale."
May 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I’m reading Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner and just got to the part where they were complicit in the 50s too
May 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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"Passing black bags to affect a political election is not really a terribly attractive thing" Stashed in the what goes around come around folder, the CIA's first big operation was to launder money through wealthy Italian-Americans and spread it around Italy to defeat the more popular Communist Party
A portion of "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner in which one of the CIA's first big operations was secretly siphoning money earmarked for uses associated with the Marshall Plan, laundering it through rich Italian-Americans and spreading it around Italy in order to help the Christian Democrats defeat the clearly more popular Communist Party in the 1948 Italian Elections.
May 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM