Joseph Jones
@jonesj.bsky.social
Librarian and Textician § Inopinum intactumque – Martianus Capella
The frivolous "ends" of formal schooling, as John Milton perceived in a pamphlet of 1644 addressed to Samuel Hartlib:
• Divinity • Law • State Affairs • dolce far niente
#outcomes
• Divinity • Law • State Affairs • dolce far niente
#outcomes
December 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The frivolous "ends" of formal schooling, as John Milton perceived in a pamphlet of 1644 addressed to Samuel Hartlib:
• Divinity • Law • State Affairs • dolce far niente
#outcomes
• Divinity • Law • State Affairs • dolce far niente
#outcomes
oopsie alert #3 to @princetonupress.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
oopsie alert #3 to @princetonupress.bsky.social
oopsie alert #2 to @princetonupress.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
oopsie alert #2 to @princetonupress.bsky.social
The US terminological authority
for book-level subject description
– LCSH –
stands deaf to dislikes
because usage rules
for book-level subject description
– LCSH –
stands deaf to dislikes
because usage rules
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The US terminological authority
for book-level subject description
– LCSH –
stands deaf to dislikes
because usage rules
for book-level subject description
– LCSH –
stands deaf to dislikes
because usage rules
@ayjay.bsky.social
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Enjoyed your "biography" of Book of Common Prayer
Looking forward to your "biography" of Paradise Lost
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oopsie alert to
@princetonupress.bsky.social
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Enjoyed your "biography" of Book of Common Prayer
Looking forward to your "biography" of Paradise Lost
———————
oopsie alert to
@princetonupress.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
@ayjay.bsky.social
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Enjoyed your "biography" of Book of Common Prayer
Looking forward to your "biography" of Paradise Lost
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oopsie alert to
@princetonupress.bsky.social
———————
Enjoyed your "biography" of Book of Common Prayer
Looking forward to your "biography" of Paradise Lost
———————
oopsie alert to
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Happenstance know-nothing reading of
Fake Accounts / Lauren Oyler – 2021
———
Expecting jaded first-person narrator
to go subversive and to one-up
gauzy Felix after his preclusionary pop-off
———
Surprised to watch narrator spiral off
into trad & agentless oyly ponder
of self-subjection
———
#booksky
Fake Accounts / Lauren Oyler – 2021
———
Expecting jaded first-person narrator
to go subversive and to one-up
gauzy Felix after his preclusionary pop-off
———
Surprised to watch narrator spiral off
into trad & agentless oyly ponder
of self-subjection
———
#booksky
October 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Happenstance know-nothing reading of
Fake Accounts / Lauren Oyler – 2021
———
Expecting jaded first-person narrator
to go subversive and to one-up
gauzy Felix after his preclusionary pop-off
———
Surprised to watch narrator spiral off
into trad & agentless oyly ponder
of self-subjection
———
#booksky
Fake Accounts / Lauren Oyler – 2021
———
Expecting jaded first-person narrator
to go subversive and to one-up
gauzy Felix after his preclusionary pop-off
———
Surprised to watch narrator spiral off
into trad & agentless oyly ponder
of self-subjection
———
#booksky
May 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Mainstream business has embraced bohemian ingenuity"
once upon a time
you could use
one word for those six
… cooptation …
no squeeze w/o disingenuous debohemianification
taking the space out of me me
once upon a time
you could use
one word for those six
… cooptation …
no squeeze w/o disingenuous debohemianification
taking the space out of me me
May 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Mainstream business has embraced bohemian ingenuity"
once upon a time
you could use
one word for those six
… cooptation …
no squeeze w/o disingenuous debohemianification
taking the space out of me me
once upon a time
you could use
one word for those six
… cooptation …
no squeeze w/o disingenuous debohemianification
taking the space out of me me
"And since the only things that might be helpful are the things that cannot be said, I am without a strategy for the present circumstance."
William Henry Devereaux Jr
(as his creative writing seminar goes off the rails)
Chapter 9 of Straight Man / Richard Russo - 1997
#collegenovel #booksky
William Henry Devereaux Jr
(as his creative writing seminar goes off the rails)
Chapter 9 of Straight Man / Richard Russo - 1997
#collegenovel #booksky
May 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"And since the only things that might be helpful are the things that cannot be said, I am without a strategy for the present circumstance."
William Henry Devereaux Jr
(as his creative writing seminar goes off the rails)
Chapter 9 of Straight Man / Richard Russo - 1997
#collegenovel #booksky
William Henry Devereaux Jr
(as his creative writing seminar goes off the rails)
Chapter 9 of Straight Man / Richard Russo - 1997
#collegenovel #booksky
In the dialectic of the academy
the supplicant purchaser
is seen to entwine with
the supplicant purveyor
at the vanishing point
of symbiotic stasis
the supplicant purchaser
is seen to entwine with
the supplicant purveyor
at the vanishing point
of symbiotic stasis
May 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
In the dialectic of the academy
the supplicant purchaser
is seen to entwine with
the supplicant purveyor
at the vanishing point
of symbiotic stasis
the supplicant purchaser
is seen to entwine with
the supplicant purveyor
at the vanishing point
of symbiotic stasis
If you have a taste
for the ridiculous sublime
of anti-statist satire
hang out with Wang
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/gold...
#booksky
for the ridiculous sublime
of anti-statist satire
hang out with Wang
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/gold...
#booksky
April 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you have a taste
for the ridiculous sublime
of anti-statist satire
hang out with Wang
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/gold...
#booksky
for the ridiculous sublime
of anti-statist satire
hang out with Wang
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/gold...
#booksky
February 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
from 1805 ...
a novel that also features
an excessively tormented
bibliographical history
a novel that also features
an excessively tormented
bibliographical history
February 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
from 1805 ...
a novel that also features
an excessively tormented
bibliographical history
a novel that also features
an excessively tormented
bibliographical history
January 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
January 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Any Yewessir whose teens & twenties
got wrecked by the protracted Vietnam War
knows who the Establishment & the System are
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
got wrecked by the protracted Vietnam War
knows who the Establishment & the System are
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 14, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Any Yewessir whose teens & twenties
got wrecked by the protracted Vietnam War
knows who the Establishment & the System are
———————————————————————
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
got wrecked by the protracted Vietnam War
knows who the Establishment & the System are
———————————————————————
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ergo, you cannot
start a novel with «and»
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But. Counterexample.
The Rules of Attraction / Bret Easton Ellis
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die prescriptivism die
start a novel with «and»
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But. Counterexample.
The Rules of Attraction / Bret Easton Ellis
===
die prescriptivism die
December 6, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Ergo, you cannot
start a novel with «and»
===
But. Counterexample.
The Rules of Attraction / Bret Easton Ellis
===
die prescriptivism die
start a novel with «and»
===
But. Counterexample.
The Rules of Attraction / Bret Easton Ellis
===
die prescriptivism die
graffiti on tree
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along Kingsway in Vancouver BC
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not painted by me
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along Kingsway in Vancouver BC
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not painted by me
November 27, 2024 at 2:28 AM
graffiti on tree
===
along Kingsway in Vancouver BC
===
not painted by me
===
along Kingsway in Vancouver BC
===
not painted by me
Conventional warfare lays waste to swaths of territory in a struggle over the power to dominate a space. Whether conducted as internecine civil war or incursion across border, the target of desire turns into nothing except the act of destruction.
November 19, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Conventional warfare lays waste to swaths of territory in a struggle over the power to dominate a space. Whether conducted as internecine civil war or incursion across border, the target of desire turns into nothing except the act of destruction.
What I learned today
from NYT crossword working
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Peter Lorre was the first filmed
James Bond villain – 1954
from NYT crossword working
===
Peter Lorre was the first filmed
James Bond villain – 1954
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 AM
What I learned today
from NYT crossword working
===
Peter Lorre was the first filmed
James Bond villain – 1954
from NYT crossword working
===
Peter Lorre was the first filmed
James Bond villain – 1954