paul dalgarno
@pauldalgarno.bsky.social
Author. A Country of Eternal Light, Prudish Nation, Poly, And You May Find Yourself 🏴 🇦🇺Here for the book chat
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February 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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‘With her is no sitting down and starving out; no dilly-dallying and fooling around; no lazying, loafing, and going to sleep; no, it is storm! storm! storm! and still storm! storm! storm! and forever storm! storm! storm!’
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
February 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
‘With her is no sitting down and starving out; no dilly-dallying and fooling around; no lazying, loafing, and going to sleep; no, it is storm! storm! storm! and still storm! storm! storm! and forever storm! storm! storm!’
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
‘Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.’
Melville in Moby Dick
Melville in Moby Dick
February 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
‘Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.’
Melville in Moby Dick
Melville in Moby Dick
Waiting for manuscript feedback on a 37°C day
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February 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Waiting for manuscript feedback on a 37°C day
‘Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up […] and could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.’
Woolf in Orlando
Woolf in Orlando
January 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
‘Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up […] and could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.’
Woolf in Orlando
Woolf in Orlando
My mind to my body for agreeing to go back to work on 2 Jan
January 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
My mind to my body for agreeing to go back to work on 2 Jan
Maybe the Xmas Eve experience at Coles was better in Dickens’ day
December 24, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Maybe the Xmas Eve experience at Coles was better in Dickens’ day
This summer, I’ve decided to donate all of my blood for free to the mosquitos
December 19, 2024 at 11:58 PM
This summer, I’ve decided to donate all of my blood for free to the mosquitos
Bound manuscript ya bass
December 18, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Bound manuscript ya bass
Found out this week that a raw score of 35 in Latin gets scaled up to 50 in the ATAR results, the highest scaling (and most school-specific) subject in Australia. If that’s not a clear-cut rort for private-school kids I don’t know what is
December 17, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Found out this week that a raw score of 35 in Latin gets scaled up to 50 in the ATAR results, the highest scaling (and most school-specific) subject in Australia. If that’s not a clear-cut rort for private-school kids I don’t know what is
All trains direct to Flinders Street
I smell the deoderant you rolled while reaching halfheartedly
for the stars
See the knife sets on your
zoomed Android
& undies at forty percent off
A skeleton wrapped in muscle wrapped in skin:
Do you have any appointments today?
Would 5.30 work for you?
I smell the deoderant you rolled while reaching halfheartedly
for the stars
See the knife sets on your
zoomed Android
& undies at forty percent off
A skeleton wrapped in muscle wrapped in skin:
Do you have any appointments today?
Would 5.30 work for you?
December 17, 2024 at 9:54 PM
All trains direct to Flinders Street
I smell the deoderant you rolled while reaching halfheartedly
for the stars
See the knife sets on your
zoomed Android
& undies at forty percent off
A skeleton wrapped in muscle wrapped in skin:
Do you have any appointments today?
Would 5.30 work for you?
I smell the deoderant you rolled while reaching halfheartedly
for the stars
See the knife sets on your
zoomed Android
& undies at forty percent off
A skeleton wrapped in muscle wrapped in skin:
Do you have any appointments today?
Would 5.30 work for you?
Keys
I search in the bedroom
In the wardrobe
And the garage
In the downstairs room
And the laundry
In the bathroom
And the toilet
In the kitchen
And the lounge room
In my pockets
And the bedroom again
In the wardrobe
And the garage
In the kitchen
And the downstairs room
In the garden
I search in the bedroom
In the wardrobe
And the garage
In the downstairs room
And the laundry
In the bathroom
And the toilet
In the kitchen
And the lounge room
In my pockets
And the bedroom again
In the wardrobe
And the garage
In the kitchen
And the downstairs room
In the garden
December 11, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Keys
I search in the bedroom
In the wardrobe
And the garage
In the downstairs room
And the laundry
In the bathroom
And the toilet
In the kitchen
And the lounge room
In my pockets
And the bedroom again
In the wardrobe
And the garage
In the kitchen
And the downstairs room
In the garden
I search in the bedroom
In the wardrobe
And the garage
In the downstairs room
And the laundry
In the bathroom
And the toilet
In the kitchen
And the lounge room
In my pockets
And the bedroom again
In the wardrobe
And the garage
In the kitchen
And the downstairs room
In the garden
Nothing says Australia like Let it Snow playing in the supermarket while everyone’s pissing sweat
December 9, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Nothing says Australia like Let it Snow playing in the supermarket while everyone’s pissing sweat
Ever since we got him, our cat has treated this glove like his child
December 3, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Ever since we got him, our cat has treated this glove like his child
🍙 Onigiri time
Sitting at my office desk
Smiling seaweed teeth 🍙
Sitting at my office desk
Smiling seaweed teeth 🍙
December 3, 2024 at 2:35 AM
🍙 Onigiri time
Sitting at my office desk
Smiling seaweed teeth 🍙
Sitting at my office desk
Smiling seaweed teeth 🍙
No matter how many times I write it, my phone autocorrects to Hairline Murakami
December 2, 2024 at 9:54 AM
No matter how many times I write it, my phone autocorrects to Hairline Murakami
Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.
November 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.
Do I dare to eat a peach?
Press 3 to speak to a customer advisor
Press 3 to speak to a customer advisor
November 24, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Do I dare to eat a peach?
Press 3 to speak to a customer advisor
Press 3 to speak to a customer advisor
Would post the link to Heatwave by Blue Nile but am too groggy cos of the heatwave
November 22, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Would post the link to Heatwave by Blue Nile but am too groggy cos of the heatwave
When you’re on fire as an actor everyone sees it; when you’re on fire as an author you just look tired; but when people eventually see the world you’ve created, with its shiny bells and whistles … you still look tired
November 20, 2024 at 9:55 PM
When you’re on fire as an actor everyone sees it; when you’re on fire as an author you just look tired; but when people eventually see the world you’ve created, with its shiny bells and whistles … you still look tired
Spent an hour trying and failing to fill out a permissions request for two lines from the Aeneid knowing everything I’ll ever write will be slurped down AI’s flappy gullet without even touching the sides
November 19, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Spent an hour trying and failing to fill out a permissions request for two lines from the Aeneid knowing everything I’ll ever write will be slurped down AI’s flappy gullet without even touching the sides
I told a joke in a book I’m writing – just have to wait 3 years to see if it lands
November 18, 2024 at 10:30 PM
I told a joke in a book I’m writing – just have to wait 3 years to see if it lands
Every time a Bluesky notification pops up on my phone Mr. Blue Sky by ELO starts playing in my head. It’s manageable at the moment with 51 friends but ima have a migraine if I get any more popular
October 11, 2023 at 11:55 PM
Every time a Bluesky notification pops up on my phone Mr. Blue Sky by ELO starts playing in my head. It’s manageable at the moment with 51 friends but ima have a migraine if I get any more popular
Signed some Prudishes and Eternals at Readings Emporium during my lunch break and felt so nervous seeing Eternal on the display of shortlisted books for the Readings Prize that I forgot to take a pic 🤦🏻♀️
October 10, 2023 at 3:17 AM
Signed some Prudishes and Eternals at Readings Emporium during my lunch break and felt so nervous seeing Eternal on the display of shortlisted books for the Readings Prize that I forgot to take a pic 🤦🏻♀️