Simon During
@simoncd.bsky.social
Bookish married English professor, living between Brisbane and Berlin. Interested in way too much, reads indiscriminately, and, cant seem to help myself, has opinions on pretty much everything.
The cynicism, cruelty and lies that now define Israel are infectious. The US is certainly infected by them.
May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The cynicism, cruelty and lies that now define Israel are infectious. The US is certainly infected by them.
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Ah god dammit. Joshua Clover wrote about both people and music as if he loved them so much he couldn’t bear it, & indeed he really did love them like this, to the joy of those he knew & shaped, & to the consternation of those who loved either less. What a loss. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11...
Roadrunning: Joshua Clover in Conversation with Alex Abramovich
November 10, 2021 – Emails about rock ’n’ roll freedom, American capitalism, and automobiles.
www.theparisreview.org
April 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Ah god dammit. Joshua Clover wrote about both people and music as if he loved them so much he couldn’t bear it, & indeed he really did love them like this, to the joy of those he knew & shaped, & to the consternation of those who loved either less. What a loss. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11...
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Best @thejuicemedia.bsky.social ad yet! Hilarious, sponsored by Gina’s portrait🤣
Let’s get the dick out of Dickson👊🗳️
#Auspol #Ausvotes2025
Let’s get the dick out of Dickson👊🗳️
#Auspol #Ausvotes2025
Peter Dutton made a new election ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol
Honest Peter Dutton Ad
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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April 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Best @thejuicemedia.bsky.social ad yet! Hilarious, sponsored by Gina’s portrait🤣
Let’s get the dick out of Dickson👊🗳️
#Auspol #Ausvotes2025
Let’s get the dick out of Dickson👊🗳️
#Auspol #Ausvotes2025
Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say
April 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say
The view from our Berlin apt just now.
March 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The view from our Berlin apt just now.
Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories: two novels (this ed 1945). This is one of the few volumes I long lusted for before I acquired it. It is such a handsome thing. Then I came across it quite by chance in Balfour Books, one of Toronto’s best used bookstores, while attending a conference there.
March 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories: two novels (this ed 1945). This is one of the few volumes I long lusted for before I acquired it. It is such a handsome thing. Then I came across it quite by chance in Balfour Books, one of Toronto’s best used bookstores, while attending a conference there.
The sooner Musk gets his ass to Mars the better.
March 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The sooner Musk gets his ass to Mars the better.
I believe the world’s moral compass will one day be restored.
February 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I believe the world’s moral compass will one day be restored.
Didier Eribon, Retour a Reims (1980). A famous (Bourdieuean) reflection on/theorization of the author’s life (a provincial queer working class lad’s rise up the academic ladder into the petit bourgeoisie) as triggered by a trip back to his home town upon his dad’s death. Interesting, very French.
February 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Didier Eribon, Retour a Reims (1980). A famous (Bourdieuean) reflection on/theorization of the author’s life (a provincial queer working class lad’s rise up the academic ladder into the petit bourgeoisie) as triggered by a trip back to his home town upon his dad’s death. Interesting, very French.
The Ukraine situation doesnt in fact divide into a good guys v bad guys scenario and we should resist slipping back into cold war melodrama thinking.
February 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The Ukraine situation doesnt in fact divide into a good guys v bad guys scenario and we should resist slipping back into cold war melodrama thinking.
The last dated Gertrud Kauders drawing we have. So cool!
February 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The last dated Gertrud Kauders drawing we have. So cool!
C.P. Snow, Death under Sail (1932). Nice cover, lousy book. What a creep was C.P. Snow!
February 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
C.P. Snow, Death under Sail (1932). Nice cover, lousy book. What a creep was C.P. Snow!
Italo Calvino, Our Ancestors. I have vivid memories of reading this book, astonished, on the London Northern Line in the days I worked in advertising in Hyde Park and lived on Parliament Hill. “Baron in the Trees” in particular really got to me, and it remains an ur-text.
February 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Italo Calvino, Our Ancestors. I have vivid memories of reading this book, astonished, on the London Northern Line in the days I worked in advertising in Hyde Park and lived on Parliament Hill. “Baron in the Trees” in particular really got to me, and it remains an ur-text.
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Ladies… this advice, written on marriage in a pamphlet by a suffragette in
1918 is still relevant today 🤣
It is currently on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales.
1918 is still relevant today 🤣
It is currently on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales.
February 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Ladies… this advice, written on marriage in a pamphlet by a suffragette in
1918 is still relevant today 🤣
It is currently on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales.
1918 is still relevant today 🤣
It is currently on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales.
My Secret Life (1966). The famous (or just once famous?) Victorian male hetero porn book which the late great Steven Marcus edited and brought back into circulation, upon which I think it became something of a bestseller. One of the more, how to put it?, perverse pathways into 19thc England.
February 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
My Secret Life (1966). The famous (or just once famous?) Victorian male hetero porn book which the late great Steven Marcus edited and brought back into circulation, upon which I think it became something of a bestseller. One of the more, how to put it?, perverse pathways into 19thc England.
A Gertrud Kauders work on paper
February 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A Gertrud Kauders work on paper
So this is what it is like
February 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
So this is what it is like
BCharles Jackson, The Lost Weekend (1944) I’ve vague memories of reading this bestseller in my adolescence and think I saw the movie too. If my memory is sound, the dustjacket here isn’t very appropriate. But pb publishers of the period weren’t concerned with the fit between the jacket and the work
February 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
BCharles Jackson, The Lost Weekend (1944) I’ve vague memories of reading this bestseller in my adolescence and think I saw the movie too. If my memory is sound, the dustjacket here isn’t very appropriate. But pb publishers of the period weren’t concerned with the fit between the jacket and the work
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Launch event for From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey TONIGHT (6:30) at @strandbookstore
Tom Fitzharris, the recipient of these letters, will be speaking with Robert Greskovic, a noted dance critic and longtime friend of Gorey's.
www.strandbooks.com/events/event...
Tom Fitzharris, the recipient of these letters, will be speaking with Robert Greskovic, a noted dance critic and longtime friend of Gorey's.
www.strandbooks.com/events/event...
February 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Launch event for From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey TONIGHT (6:30) at @strandbookstore
Tom Fitzharris, the recipient of these letters, will be speaking with Robert Greskovic, a noted dance critic and longtime friend of Gorey's.
www.strandbooks.com/events/event...
Tom Fitzharris, the recipient of these letters, will be speaking with Robert Greskovic, a noted dance critic and longtime friend of Gorey's.
www.strandbooks.com/events/event...
Politics is a mugs game. But we are all mugs.
January 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Politics is a mugs game. But we are all mugs.
Kirsty Bell, The Undercurrents. I enjoyed this as most people interested in Berlin will. An American art-historian’s divorce lands her with a largish building beside the Landwehr canal and she becomes obsessed by its past. Fascinating.
January 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Kirsty Bell, The Undercurrents. I enjoyed this as most people interested in Berlin will. An American art-historian’s divorce lands her with a largish building beside the Landwehr canal and she becomes obsessed by its past. Fascinating.
Forceful detailed essay on Germany’s profoundly disturbing failure to acknowledge what is going on in Israel
January 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Forceful detailed essay on Germany’s profoundly disturbing failure to acknowledge what is going on in Israel
Can we please just put Bob Dylan out of our lives? How hard would that be? He deserves a rest.
January 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Can we please just put Bob Dylan out of our lives? How hard would that be? He deserves a rest.
Mary McCarthy, The Group Everyone read this when I was young. Before feminism, before the pill, before the ‘career woman’, it’s about a bunch of Vasser girls out of college. It’s more about class thansex and gender, even if its historical role was to intensify women’s awareness of how gender works.
January 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Mary McCarthy, The Group Everyone read this when I was young. Before feminism, before the pill, before the ‘career woman’, it’s about a bunch of Vasser girls out of college. It’s more about class thansex and gender, even if its historical role was to intensify women’s awareness of how gender works.