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Neil Mackenzie
@nmackenzie.bsky.social
Books, music, technology.
San Francisco, CA
Forgive me for the occasional mistakes, because of course there are some: memories can falter, accounts contradict one another. Please believe that, despite all this, I tried not to cheat.
- Hervé Le Tellier, The Name on the Wall
Tr: Adriana Hunter
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Dolores Park
San Francisco, CA
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Adam, the Father of Mankind, was created on the twenty-eighth day of October at two o’clock in the afternoon.

- Eça de Qeirós, Adam and Eve in Paradise
Tr: Margaret Jull Costa
November 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
November 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
What’s it like, Oedipa, being all alone in a nightmare like that? Of course they stick together, they keep in touch. They can always tell when they come on another of their kind. Maybe it only happens once every five years, but still, immediately, they know.

- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Pacific Ocean
San Francisco, CA
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Carlo Levi art on the cover of his memoir.
November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
La Luz
The Chapel
San Francisco, CA
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Grey over green
San Francisco, CA
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Sunset
San Francisco, CA
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Blue sky
San Francisco, CA
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Ocean Beach
San Francisco, CA
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Blue sky
San Francisco, CA
November 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Blue sky
San Francisco, CA
October 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Night
San Francisco, CA
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Birnam Wood
Dunkeld, Scotland
October 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Sometimes the linemen replacing utility poles just have to call it a day.

San Francisco, CA
October 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Complete Short Stories
- Muriel Spark
October 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Fog bank
San Francisco, CA
October 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
and now I was sure I wasn’t dreaming, there really was someone saying my name, and so, well, if someone was calling me I probably had to go out and see who it was

- Jon Fosse, Vaim
Tr: Damion Searls
October 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
A small pile of small books.
October 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
There grew in that place a herb with an exceedingly bitter juice. By Pietro’s order the troops collected the herb, carried it to the river bank, crushed it and threw it in the water. The juice was carried downstream to the enemy camp, where it infected the water with a foul and horrible taste
October 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Anchor Brewing Company
San Francisco, CA
October 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Fall
San Francisco, CA
October 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#Hellzone
San Francisco, CA
October 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM