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One of the most beautiful songs every written
youtu.be/unu79PP2Klo?...
Christy Moore - Beeswing (Official Live Video)
YouTube video by ChristyMooreVEVO
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June 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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One of the many fine works of the Irish poet, Paul Durcan, who passed away this weekend - few have ever written better on death
May 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Keep on rockin in the free world, Lucinda Williams, Vega, 7 May
May 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
James Baker Experience - I Can't Control Myself
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNeV...
May 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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This just gets more relevant all the time
April 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Lyndsey Stonebridge
The books that made me
youtu.be/MalYrCfCvOc?...
The Books That Made Me – with Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA
YouTube video by The British Academy
youtu.be
April 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I wrote a thing about Orwell's essays Please read and share. substack.com/@matthewclay...
On Orwell's essays
Going deep inside the whale
substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Snap! The peerless Sicilian hinterlands, 6 April 2023
April 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Chinua Achebe
April 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.”
― Margaret Storm Jameson
January 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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#FraFriday with a lot of action:

FRA ANGELICO
(ca. 1395-1455, born in Vicchio di Mugello, died in Rome)

St Cosmas and St Damian are thrown into the sea, saved by an Angel, and liberate Lysias from demons, ca. 1438-40
April 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring -
April 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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"In Greenland what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain."
snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-g...
The Imperialism Has no Clothes
JD Vance in Greenland
snyder.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A new, final Solstad novel, will be published later this year
www.vg.no/rampelys/i/8...
Forfatteren Dag Solstad er død
Den norske forfatterlegenden ble 83 år gammel.
www.vg.no
March 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Shoulda won the Nobel - vale Dag Solstad
swedenherald.com/article/the-...
Norwegian author Dag Solstad has died | Sweden Herald
The Norwegian author Dag Solstad is dead
swedenherald.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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“somewhere I am suddenly born”: alphabet by Inger Christensen, translated by Susanna Nied
roughghosts.com/2025/02/21/s...
“somewhere I am suddenly born”: alphabet by Inger Christensen
I write like the wind that writes with clouds’ tranquil script or quickly across the sky in vanishing strokes as if with swallows I write like wind that writes in water with stylized monotony or ro…
roughghosts.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Käthe Kollwitz at the National Gallery of Denmark
February 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM