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Patrick Jamieson
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Reader (EN, FR, PT, SP). Literary Translator. Apprentice Bookbinder. Traveler. Amateur Photographer. Collect Books, Typewriters & Outsider Art. Scots-Irish American by birth; Portuguese-Mexican by inclination.
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Safely home in California! I protectively-packed, then transported these 12 hand-painted tiles from #Porto #Portugal in my carry-on. Here seen assembled on our coffee table, they measure just under 24 in x 18 in. Now, how/where to mount them? Hanging piece or permanent installation?
#azulejos #tiles
July 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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‪Me. Today. At one of a handful of No Kings protests in Novato, California.

Along with my wife, daughter, son-in-law, grandson, granddaughter, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and several thousand other unpaid, local citizens.

#NoKing #Indivisible #USArmyVeteran #JustSayNoToFascism
At one of several No Kings protests in Novato, California on 14 June 2025, U.S. Army veteran Patrick Jamieson (of Novato) raises a hand made sign that reads: Due Process / Essential / Indispensable
June 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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My granddaughter and I are working on one of our No Kings Day signs. We will see you on the streets on Saturday.

Despite what our wannabe king wishes, peaceful protest—and the exercising of our First Amendment rights—remains constitutionally protected. He's too quick to ask, "What would Putin do?"
June 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"Haiti Crucifiee" by A.M. Maurice
Circa 1980s - 24 inches x 28 inches
Oil on Canvas

I bought this painting in early 2004 in Key West, Florida. I'd intended to go to Haiti, but flights there were abruptly cancelled due to a military coup. Today, I see it as "Trump & His Toadies at the Trough."
"Haiti Crucifiee" by A.M. Maurice. Circa 1980s - 24 in x 28 in. Oil on Canvas. The Haitian artist Marie Coine Kravitz explained the meanings of the symbols contained in this painting when it was purchased in March 2004 by Patrick Jamieson at the Haitian Art Company in Key West, Florida: The setting is dictator Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvallier's sacrificial altar outside the National Palace in Port-au-Prince. Papa Doc—shown wearing his customary dark glasses—'practiced magic'; the flame in the lower left represents his religion. The blue and red body nailed to the cross—those being the colors of the traditional Haitian flag—represents the people of Haiti. (Papa Doc replaced the blue and red flag with a black and red one, as seen in the upper left.) Papa Doc's son and successor, Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvallier, stands behind him. The two snakes represent how the Duvalliers treated the people of Haiti. Papa Doc's snake squeezes the Haitian people and sucks their blood; Baby Doc's snake in turn sucks that blood from his father's cup. The skeletal figures behind the Duvalliers represent the members of their regime; lacking their own strength, 'they are already dead.' Papa Doc's black and red flag flies from a palm tree—a symbol of freedom and liberty—suggesting that freedom and liberty will grow again in Haiti. Maurice has also added a slogan and a bird sitting on a lanbi (conch shell) to the flag. The lanbi is the symbol of the Haitian Revolution, which Maurice shows as being 'put on the bottom' by the Duvalliers. The bird sitting on the lanbi—a pentad (guinea fowl)—is a passive breed without a sense of responsibility; it will fly away, abandoning its newly hatched young. The slogan added to the flag essentially calls for freedom fighters to rise up and battle the Duvallier regime. Due to its political content, A.M. Maurice kept this painting hidden for years, finally selling it to Boris Kravitz of the Haitian Art Company shortly before he (Maurice) died in Nov 2000.
May 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I have developed a technique whereby—when I can’t rapidly retrieve a word I know I should imminently know eminently—I quickly and seamlessly replace that unretrievable thingy with another thingy that suffices for use with most casual listeners. This technique has been working conspicuously for me.
May 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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A recent arrival from Livraria Manuel Ferreira of Porto, Portugal: A paperback original first edition of O ano de 1993, the 30-section anti-fascist prose poem by 1998 Nobel Laureate José Saramago, published in 1975.

#JoséSaramago #oanode1993 @fjsaramago.bsky.social @acasajosesaramago.bsky.social
Front cover of a copy of the paperback original first edition of O ano de 1993, a prose poem by 1998 Nobel Laureate José Saramago. Lisboa: Editorial Futura, 1975. Printed wrappers. 69 pages.
May 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Me. Today. California State Capitol, Sacramento. [It was hot out there. I had to shed my old Army field jacket.]

#HandsOff #Indivisible #IndivisibleSacramemto #Guernica #USArmyVeteran #Woke #Wokeness
Patrick Jamieson, a 73-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Novato, California, participates in the 05 April 2025 "Hands Off" protest outside the State Capitol in Sacramento, California. Jamieson wears a T-shirt decorated with an image that replicates the head of the agonized, screaming horse featured in Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting "Guernica," and he holds a handmade poster that reads: Proudly WOKE | "Aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues particularly those related to racial and social justice" ˜Merriam-Webster Dictionary
April 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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A recent arrival from Livraria Alfarrabista Liliana Queiroz of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal: Terra do Pecado, the first book by 1998 Nobel Laureate José Saramago, published in 1947. Custom clamshell case coming soon.
#JoséSaramago #TerraDoPecado @fjsaramago.bsky.social @acasajosesaramago.bsky.social
Front cover of a first edition copy of Terra do Pecado, the first book by 1998 Nobel Laureate José Saramago. A trade paperback original, published in 1947 by Editorial Minerva Lisboa.
April 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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For World Poetry Day: A section from my English translation of "O ano de 1993," a narrative prose poem by 1998 Nobel Laureate José Saramago. First published in Portugal in 1975, Saramago warns that the struggle against fascism is an ongoing one. 50 years later... still too true.
#xl8 #JoséSaramago
March 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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What are you reading (or intending to read) in 2025? No explanations, no reviews, just covers. But please acknowledge any translator(s).

Milk Run by Kate Ellen Braverman

#BookSky💙📚 #Books #2025ReadingList
Front copy of a copy of the poetry collection Milk Run by Kate Ellen Braverman. [Los Angeles] Momentum Press [1977].
March 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Yes, I'm fascinated by it, visiting it several times a day. Here's an unadjusted detail shot of the center taken with my iPhone.
March 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Untitled by Sherlie DePhonce (Haiti)
36 inches x 24 inches (without frame)
Acrylic on Canvas; circa 1990s

I just received this wonderful painting--here seen now hanging in my home--as a gift (!) from a fellow collector and good friend. I am one lucky guy!

#SherlieDePhonce #HaitianArt
Untitled by Sherlie DePhonce (Haiti) 36 inches x 24 inches (without frame) Acrylic on Canvas; circa 1990s Collection of Patrick Jamieson
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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What are you reading (or intending to read) in 2025? No explanations, no reviews, just covers. But please acknowledge any translator(s).

Volverse / Volver by Mark Statman

#BookSky💙📚 #Books #2025ReadingList
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Trade paperback copy of Volverse/Volver by Mark Statman. A poetry collection published by Lavender Ink in 2025. Cover illustration by Katherine Koch.
March 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Nicely perfect bound. Good paper and overall quality. Love the cover art. I’m in bed reading it right now. Email me at patrick@ibookx.com and I’ll reply with more photos mañana.
March 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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"Alors" - An original Pastel over Monotype
by Walter Egel Kuhlman (1918-2009)

Signed and Dated 1999 - 8¾ inches x 11 inches

Purchased at the artist's Sausalito, California studio 19 years ago. Then untitled, I asked Mr. Kuhlman if he might give it one, and he obliged me: Alors.

#WalterKuhlman
"Alors" - An original Pastel over Monotype by Walter Egel Kuhlman (1918-2009). Signed and Dated 1999 - 8¾ inches x 11 inches. © Patrick Jamieson Collection.
March 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Just saw an interview on Ari Melber featuring Rich Benjamin, author of the just released book Talk to Me. This biography/memoir sounded fascinating. I picked up an eBook from Kobo (I'm avoiding Amazon and Apple) and will start reading it tonight.

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Front cover of the book Talk to Me by Rich Benjamin.
February 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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A page from my English translation of "O ano de 1993" by Nobel Laureate José Saramago. An anti-fascist prose poem as relevant now as the day it was published in 1975.

Tentative English title: "Resist Persist Repeat"

#josesaramago #oanode1993 #ResistPersistRepeat
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The prose poem O ano de 1993 by José Saramago (Tentative English title: Resist Persist Repeat) opened to page 14 of the English translation, the beginning of section four. It reads: The interrogation of the man who left his home after curfew began a fortnight ago and has continued without pause. The interrogators ask one question every sixty minutes, twenty-four per day, and demand fifty-nine different answers for each of them. It's a new method. They believe that it's impossible for the true answer not to be among the fifty-nine given. And they rely on the perceptiveness of the computer to discover which one it is and its linkage with the others. The man hasn't slept in fifteen days, nor will he be allowed to sleep until the computer requires no more data or the doctor doesn’t need so much. In which case he will have his final sleep.
February 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I am proud to have been counted among about 200 protesters at Elon's San Francisco Tesla store yesterday evening.
#Dog-e #DownDog-e #BadDog-e #GeorgeOrwell #JustSayNoToFascism #NoOneElectedElon
At the San Francisco, California Tesla store, on 19 February 2025, literary translator Patrick Jamieson protests against Donald Trump's Orwellian-named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Jamieson holds a sign that reads Down Dog-E. (Down Doggy) At the San Francisco, California Tesla store, on 19 February 2025, literary translator Patrick Jamieson protests against Donald Trump's Orwellian-named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Jamieson holds a sign that reads Down Dog-E. (Down Doggy)
February 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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What are you reading (or intending to read) in 2025? No explanations, no reviews, just covers. But please acknowledge any translator(s).

The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls

#DamionSearls #Translation #LiteraryTranslation
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Front cover of a hardback copy of The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls. Published by Yale University Press in 1924.
February 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A year ago today, on February 16, 2024, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died at the hands of Russian authorities in the prison where he was being held on trumped-up charges.

#AlexeiNavalny #PoliticalPrisoners #PutinsRussia #RIP
A still image taken from a handout video footage made available by the press service of the Moscow City Court shows an opposition leader Alexei Navalny gesturing from inside a defendant's glass cage during a visiting session of the Simonovsky district court at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, 2 February 2021. [Handout image/EPA/EFE]
February 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Found this old favorite today while looking at the books behind the books on one of my bookcases: Port Tropique by Barry Gifford. A Black Lizard title published in 1980 and inscribed to me by the author in 1987.
#BarryGifford #PortTropique #BlackLizard
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Front cover of a copy of the first trade paperback edition of the novel Port Tropique by Barry Gifford. The half-title page of a copy of the first trade paperback edition of the novel Port Tropique by Barry Gifford, with a handwritten inscription that reads: "For Patrick, The original Port as you requested with Best wishes always Barry Gifford 20 May 1987"
February 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Today's Library Book Store finds. US$5 for the pair!
#GabrielGarciaMarques #CarlosFuentes #LatinAmericanBoom
Two trade paperback books laying side-by-side: El amor en los tiempos del cólera by Gabriel García Márquez and Gringo Viejo by Carlos Fuentes.
February 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Hanging at the #citizenM in Downtown LA, drinking an Old Fashioned. Not interested in watching a Super Bowl with a wanna be dictator in attendance.
February 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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This 40" x 30" painting--"Dambala Wedo, Erzulie Fréda Daromey et Maitre Ogou Fieraille"--by the acclaimed André Pierre has graced my walls for nearly 20 years. Now it's headed to a new home in Los Angeles. I've decided to head south for a few days and deliver it personally.

#HaitianArt #AndréPierre
The 30 inch x 40 inch oil on linen painting "Dambala Wedo, Erzulie Fréda Daromey et Maitre Ogou Fieraille" by the acclaimed Haitian artist André Pierre. Painted circa 1984.
February 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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What are you reading (or intending to read) in 2025? No explanations, no reviews, just covers. But please acknowledge any translator(s).

El Fin de la Historia by Luis Sepúlveda

#LuisSepúlveda #TusquetsEditores
#BookSky💙📚 #Books #2025ReadingList
Front cover of a trade paperback copy of El Fin de la Historia by Luis Sepúlveda. Published in Barcelona by Tusquets Editores in 2017.
February 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM