Thank you for your amazing work in making these novels available to us

I dread to think what an utter hash AI would make of even a single Krasznahorkai sentence

It's very neat at first, et sic per gradus ad ima tenditur

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It's the details that really make it - packed like a sandbag; a carvery on the Sunday...

(I nearly elided the middle bit but then clocked the irony 🤦‍♂️)

'this unpopular art which cannot be turned into
background noise for study
or hung as a status trophy by rising executives,
cannot be "done" like Venice
or abridged like Tolstoy, but stubbornly still insists upon
being read or ignored'

The ruthless economic muscle of Big Short

The irony is lost on this anonymous bluesky user

I carried the Watergate

I mean, Lukacs would say that the realistic novel is about economic conditions by definition

Bilbo's offered a wage to go with the dwarves, but the reason he goes is that he quite fancies being a gentleman adventurer

Characters having to worry about money (or not) would be one way of differentiating between realism and fantasy. E.g. Frodo is Mr Frodo and can swan off to Mordor without giving notice

No wonder the political class despise and undervalue teachers, if this is what they think teaching is. No wonder their view of education is so reductive and instrumental.

People need to complain about this crap if we want it to stop www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

I keep expecting Bruno Cremer to walk into shot