Patrick T. Quinn
@patrick-t-quinn.bsky.social
All sorts: classical guitar, jazz, literature, movies, tech, politics (liberal & internationalist), multilingual.
What I’m reading.
Fatal Purity, Robespierre and the French Revolution
By Ruth Scurr.
Just started reading. Finding I don’t care much about Robbie’s early childhood. So he loved birds. Wealth & class in his native Arras may turnout to have been significant. We’ll see …
#Literature
#BookSky
Fatal Purity, Robespierre and the French Revolution
By Ruth Scurr.
Just started reading. Finding I don’t care much about Robbie’s early childhood. So he loved birds. Wealth & class in his native Arras may turnout to have been significant. We’ll see …
#Literature
#BookSky
March 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
What I’m reading.
Fatal Purity, Robespierre and the French Revolution
By Ruth Scurr.
Just started reading. Finding I don’t care much about Robbie’s early childhood. So he loved birds. Wealth & class in his native Arras may turnout to have been significant. We’ll see …
#Literature
#BookSky
Fatal Purity, Robespierre and the French Revolution
By Ruth Scurr.
Just started reading. Finding I don’t care much about Robbie’s early childhood. So he loved birds. Wealth & class in his native Arras may turnout to have been significant. We’ll see …
#Literature
#BookSky
“The second thing you notice about Vince — don’t mean to speak ill of the dead …”
the-story-cast.blogspot.com/2025/02/vinc...
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the-story-cast.blogspot.com/2025/02/vinc...
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February 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
“The second thing you notice about Vince — don’t mean to speak ill of the dead …”
the-story-cast.blogspot.com/2025/02/vinc...
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#books #literary
the-story-cast.blogspot.com/2025/02/vinc...
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#books #literary
Some of the passages most resonant w/ me are about how people come to regard extreme cruelty as their right. Or, at least, a duty in a wider cause that justifies everything.
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January 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Some of the passages most resonant w/ me are about how people come to regard extreme cruelty as their right. Or, at least, a duty in a wider cause that justifies everything.
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What I am rereading. Berlin, Anthony Beevor.
What is striking is similarity w/ today. Same hubris, same chauvinism, mass murder for pride or revenge, overturning of moral logic, scarcity of moral courage.
The powerful cannot imagine fates change and you might become the victim.
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What is striking is similarity w/ today. Same hubris, same chauvinism, mass murder for pride or revenge, overturning of moral logic, scarcity of moral courage.
The powerful cannot imagine fates change and you might become the victim.
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January 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
What I am rereading. Berlin, Anthony Beevor.
What is striking is similarity w/ today. Same hubris, same chauvinism, mass murder for pride or revenge, overturning of moral logic, scarcity of moral courage.
The powerful cannot imagine fates change and you might become the victim.
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🧵
What is striking is similarity w/ today. Same hubris, same chauvinism, mass murder for pride or revenge, overturning of moral logic, scarcity of moral courage.
The powerful cannot imagine fates change and you might become the victim.
💙📚
🧵
Continuing to learn how GenAI helps authors.
Right now trying Google NotebookLM
The studio generates a podcast about yr manuscript. It is good. Some over interpretation, but seems not far off what moderately perceptive humans can achieve.
youtu.be/8ZZeQidtwns?...
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#LiteratureSky
#BookSky
Right now trying Google NotebookLM
The studio generates a podcast about yr manuscript. It is good. Some over interpretation, but seems not far off what moderately perceptive humans can achieve.
youtu.be/8ZZeQidtwns?...
💙📚
#LiteratureSky
#BookSky
January 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Continuing to learn how GenAI helps authors.
Right now trying Google NotebookLM
The studio generates a podcast about yr manuscript. It is good. Some over interpretation, but seems not far off what moderately perceptive humans can achieve.
youtu.be/8ZZeQidtwns?...
💙📚
#LiteratureSky
#BookSky
Right now trying Google NotebookLM
The studio generates a podcast about yr manuscript. It is good. Some over interpretation, but seems not far off what moderately perceptive humans can achieve.
youtu.be/8ZZeQidtwns?...
💙📚
#LiteratureSky
#BookSky
The Substance is a cautionary tale of what can happen when your movie’s over & there’s lots of latex left over.
The best parts are easily overlooked. Elizabeth preparing for a date in a high point. The encounter in the cafe is also poignant.
Worth screening as a Barbie double-bill
7/10
#FilmSky
The best parts are easily overlooked. Elizabeth preparing for a date in a high point. The encounter in the cafe is also poignant.
Worth screening as a Barbie double-bill
7/10
#FilmSky
January 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The Substance is a cautionary tale of what can happen when your movie’s over & there’s lots of latex left over.
The best parts are easily overlooked. Elizabeth preparing for a date in a high point. The encounter in the cafe is also poignant.
Worth screening as a Barbie double-bill
7/10
#FilmSky
The best parts are easily overlooked. Elizabeth preparing for a date in a high point. The encounter in the cafe is also poignant.
Worth screening as a Barbie double-bill
7/10
#FilmSky
What I am reading:
If you survive, by George D. Wilson
Wartime memoir of an infantry officer in WWII. It has become required reading at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Lt. Wilson died in 2005
www.findagrave.com/memorial/137...
If you survive, by George D. Wilson
Wartime memoir of an infantry officer in WWII. It has become required reading at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Lt. Wilson died in 2005
www.findagrave.com/memorial/137...
January 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
What I am reading:
If you survive, by George D. Wilson
Wartime memoir of an infantry officer in WWII. It has become required reading at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Lt. Wilson died in 2005
www.findagrave.com/memorial/137...
If you survive, by George D. Wilson
Wartime memoir of an infantry officer in WWII. It has become required reading at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Lt. Wilson died in 2005
www.findagrave.com/memorial/137...
There are many likeable passages. I remember this one about the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters pub.
January 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
There are many likeable passages. I remember this one about the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters pub.
Western democracy in late 20th/early 21st century is moulded by bold figures. In earlier eras they would have built armies and crowned themselves. The last of the breed was probably Napoleon (excl. 1930s).
January 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Western democracy in late 20th/early 21st century is moulded by bold figures. In earlier eras they would have built armies and crowned themselves. The last of the breed was probably Napoleon (excl. 1930s).
Watching Black Doves on Netflix
Halfway through episode 1.
Wonder whether it’s intended to be clumsy, violent, unoriginal, but kind of charming, like Tarantino’s Kill Bill.
So far, it isn’t pulling it off.
#FilmSky
Halfway through episode 1.
Wonder whether it’s intended to be clumsy, violent, unoriginal, but kind of charming, like Tarantino’s Kill Bill.
So far, it isn’t pulling it off.
#FilmSky
December 30, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Watching Black Doves on Netflix
Halfway through episode 1.
Wonder whether it’s intended to be clumsy, violent, unoriginal, but kind of charming, like Tarantino’s Kill Bill.
So far, it isn’t pulling it off.
#FilmSky
Halfway through episode 1.
Wonder whether it’s intended to be clumsy, violent, unoriginal, but kind of charming, like Tarantino’s Kill Bill.
So far, it isn’t pulling it off.
#FilmSky
December 30, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Wassailing is performed by small groups travelling from door to door singing, offering drink and good wishes.
December 25, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Wassailing is performed by small groups travelling from door to door singing, offering drink and good wishes.
What I am reading.
Smuggling in the British Isles: A history, by Richard Platt
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Smuggling in the British Isles: A history, by Richard Platt
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December 23, 2024 at 5:31 AM
What I am reading.
Smuggling in the British Isles: A history, by Richard Platt
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Smuggling in the British Isles: A history, by Richard Platt
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How so?
if you’re interested, English Folksongs & Lute songs album has IMO simpler & better accompaniment than Wayfaring stranger album. For example, Barbara Allen.
if you’re interested, English Folksongs & Lute songs album has IMO simpler & better accompaniment than Wayfaring stranger album. For example, Barbara Allen.
December 18, 2024 at 8:45 PM
How so?
if you’re interested, English Folksongs & Lute songs album has IMO simpler & better accompaniment than Wayfaring stranger album. For example, Barbara Allen.
if you’re interested, English Folksongs & Lute songs album has IMO simpler & better accompaniment than Wayfaring stranger album. For example, Barbara Allen.
I didn’t get it. Asked ChatGPT to explain it to me.
December 11, 2024 at 2:04 AM
I didn’t get it. Asked ChatGPT to explain it to me.
il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.
December 9, 2024 at 4:53 PM
il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.
6. How this work might fit within contemporary literary discourse
Please be as specific as possible in your analysis, citing particular passages that illustrate your points.”
Claude produced this analysis of Shelley’s Frankenstein
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Please be as specific as possible in your analysis, citing particular passages that illustrate your points.”
Claude produced this analysis of Shelley’s Frankenstein
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November 29, 2024 at 2:54 PM
6. How this work might fit within contemporary literary discourse
Please be as specific as possible in your analysis, citing particular passages that illustrate your points.”
Claude produced this analysis of Shelley’s Frankenstein
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Please be as specific as possible in your analysis, citing particular passages that illustrate your points.”
Claude produced this analysis of Shelley’s Frankenstein
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This is petty of me. But I went ahead and ordered a copy from Amazon. Paperbacks only.
I see 2 reviews. 1 good, 1 bad. I think I might enjoy reading it. That’s what counts.
I see 2 reviews. 1 good, 1 bad. I think I might enjoy reading it. That’s what counts.
November 23, 2024 at 6:49 PM
This is petty of me. But I went ahead and ordered a copy from Amazon. Paperbacks only.
I see 2 reviews. 1 good, 1 bad. I think I might enjoy reading it. That’s what counts.
I see 2 reviews. 1 good, 1 bad. I think I might enjoy reading it. That’s what counts.
November 22, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Greene’s characters, the male protagonist anyway, are interesting for their moral flaws, cynicism & empathy without sentimentality.
“My child, my sister,” evocation of Fleurs du Mal in The Quiet American fits. “Au pays qui te ressemble!” also works in this story and maybe others.
“My child, my sister,” evocation of Fleurs du Mal in The Quiet American fits. “Au pays qui te ressemble!” also works in this story and maybe others.
November 22, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Greene’s characters, the male protagonist anyway, are interesting for their moral flaws, cynicism & empathy without sentimentality.
“My child, my sister,” evocation of Fleurs du Mal in The Quiet American fits. “Au pays qui te ressemble!” also works in this story and maybe others.
“My child, my sister,” evocation of Fleurs du Mal in The Quiet American fits. “Au pays qui te ressemble!” also works in this story and maybe others.
I like this poem, Headfirst, by Ocean Vuong. youtu.be/zssYOQhAYUU
November 21, 2024 at 9:02 PM
I like this poem, Headfirst, by Ocean Vuong. youtu.be/zssYOQhAYUU
What I’m reading.
The light that failed. Rudyard Kipling
“Madame Binat looked over her shoulder and smiled with many teeth.”
“'Am I that?' he screamed. 'Will you take that away with you and show all the world that it is I,—Binat?' He moaned and wept.”
The light that failed. Rudyard Kipling
“Madame Binat looked over her shoulder and smiled with many teeth.”
“'Am I that?' he screamed. 'Will you take that away with you and show all the world that it is I,—Binat?' He moaned and wept.”
November 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
What I’m reading.
The light that failed. Rudyard Kipling
“Madame Binat looked over her shoulder and smiled with many teeth.”
“'Am I that?' he screamed. 'Will you take that away with you and show all the world that it is I,—Binat?' He moaned and wept.”
The light that failed. Rudyard Kipling
“Madame Binat looked over her shoulder and smiled with many teeth.”
“'Am I that?' he screamed. 'Will you take that away with you and show all the world that it is I,—Binat?' He moaned and wept.”
Gladiator II
Good: spectacle, coliseum battles.
Often over the top.
Bingo card points for spotting: Napoleon, Harry, Ed, Will, Ming the merciless, mad max war boy, death by 100 arrows.
Acting, dialogue ok. Climactic set-piece lines stilted, lost impact.
3/5
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Good: spectacle, coliseum battles.
Often over the top.
Bingo card points for spotting: Napoleon, Harry, Ed, Will, Ming the merciless, mad max war boy, death by 100 arrows.
Acting, dialogue ok. Climactic set-piece lines stilted, lost impact.
3/5
#gladiator
November 16, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Gladiator II
Good: spectacle, coliseum battles.
Often over the top.
Bingo card points for spotting: Napoleon, Harry, Ed, Will, Ming the merciless, mad max war boy, death by 100 arrows.
Acting, dialogue ok. Climactic set-piece lines stilted, lost impact.
3/5
#gladiator
Good: spectacle, coliseum battles.
Often over the top.
Bingo card points for spotting: Napoleon, Harry, Ed, Will, Ming the merciless, mad max war boy, death by 100 arrows.
Acting, dialogue ok. Climactic set-piece lines stilted, lost impact.
3/5
#gladiator
A book I’d recommend.
The Digger’s Game. George V. Higgins
You read Higgins mainly for sharp dialogue. The stories are set among the criminals of the Boston area.
You’re reminded sometimes of a stage play, Mamet or similar.
4/5
The Digger’s Game. George V. Higgins
You read Higgins mainly for sharp dialogue. The stories are set among the criminals of the Boston area.
You’re reminded sometimes of a stage play, Mamet or similar.
4/5
November 15, 2024 at 7:29 PM
A book I’d recommend.
The Digger’s Game. George V. Higgins
You read Higgins mainly for sharp dialogue. The stories are set among the criminals of the Boston area.
You’re reminded sometimes of a stage play, Mamet or similar.
4/5
The Digger’s Game. George V. Higgins
You read Higgins mainly for sharp dialogue. The stories are set among the criminals of the Boston area.
You’re reminded sometimes of a stage play, Mamet or similar.
4/5