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Ray Davis
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Free-range essayist & online publisher at https://www.pseudopodium.org/
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From "Souvenir de la nuit du 4" by Victor Hugo:
Vous ne compreniez point, mère, la politique. Monsieur Napoléon, c’est son nom authentique, Est pauvre et même prince; il aime les palais; Il lui convient d’avoir des chevaux, des valets, De l’argent pour son jeu, sa table, son alcôve, Ses chasses: par la même occasion, il sauve La famille, l’égHse et la société; Il veut avoir Saint-Cloud, plein de roses l’été, Où viendront l’adorer les préfets et les maires; C’est pour cela qu’il faut que les vieilles grand-mères....
September 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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From the truly remarkable, Isherwood-scripted "Frankenstein: The True Story":
Michael Sarrazin as the Monster
September 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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"There was a depression over the Atlantic. It was travelling eastwards, towards an area of high pressure over Russia, and still showed no tendency to move northwards around it."
First paragraph of Musil's "The Man Without Qualities"
July 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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"Dr Pfeffer" from Companion Wine Co., 100% Cabernet Pfeffer grapes
July 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Set to expire after 2028. Under the changes in the legislation the Social Security trust fund could be insolvent by 2032.
July 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"produced and disseminated at U.S. taxpayer expense"
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I've cassandraed a long while now & I know there are worse things going on. But receiving partisan propaganda from the Social Security Administration actually shocked me.
"celebrating the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a landmark piece of legislation that delivers long-awaited tax relief'
July 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A 2010 Facebook post from Maureen Hurley points to a defunct web page with a slightly different version that adds the name "Willem Hendriksen Whenathome" & the email link "P.G. Jacobs ". The disguise, I fear, is thin.

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Color version of "Eureland & James Joyce" map
June 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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In old-timey American usage, the same might be true of "Chas":

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Clover Hooper Adams on Henry James: 'He chaws more than he bites off.'
June 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Biological LLMs, Fig. 893. From "A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870—1920" by Michael McGerr.
In 1911, she got to know Gertrude and Leo Stein, who helped introduce her to modernism. Gertrude Stein painted the 'Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia', which made both artist and model well known in certain circles.
June 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Walking to the Mar Vista creek with Peter Parker and Chiquita
May 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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In typo veritas.
"So, just as Diotima taught in the Symposium, beauty is that which spurns us to attain the good." From Diotima's Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing by Frederick C. Beiser
November 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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"*!* ... *!* *!* *!* ... "Ahh-*!*"
Una O'Connor coughing over tea in Cluny Brown, 1946
October 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Christina Rossetti:
In Progress Ten years ago it seemed impossible That she should ever grow so calm as this, With self-remembrance in her warmest kiss And dim dried eyes like an exhausted well. Slow-speaking when she has some fact to tell, Silent with long-unbroken silences, Centred in self yet not unpleased to please, Gravely monotonous like a passing bell. Mindful of drudging daily common things, Patient at pastime, patient at her work, Wearied perhaps but strenuous certainly. Sometimes I fancy we may one day see Her head shoot forth seven stars from where they lurk And her eyes lightnings and her shoulders wings.
October 22, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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And tying your list into a neat circle, dearly beloved & keenly missed Terry Bisson worked on Peter Coyote's book:
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And tying your list into a neat circle, dearly beloved & keenly missed Terry Bisson worked on Peter Coyote's book: https://blog.pmpress.org/2024/01/13/fried-green-tomatoes/
January 14, 2024 at 11:35 PM