SP Smith

"Villette as full-on gothic horror"

Hart Crane when he's going on about the bridge, for sure, Whitman on the ferry and, maybe, the Cheever stories about the city.

This is just an image that reads: Enough About Angels The Nobel Lecture Laszlo Krasznahorkai

That's quite a title and I'm a little excited for this to come out.

don’t forget to leave cookies and milk out with the door unlocked for Jason Voorhees tonight

Look, I hate that I know what this means ... [mumbles] internet traditions.

This is a word that I butchered until I just had to ask someone from Philadelphia, with as much humility as I had, what the name of that river is.

Just heard someone from the UK pronounce Schuylkill, and it was fantastic.

Exchange between Jon Heyman and a Yankees fan where the fan says “Stop trying to give us false hope. This shit is ass Heyman.” Heyman: “But it’s well written ass.”

“But it’s well written ass” Will be the last words I speak on this Earth

it’s actually not hard to gauge the quality of any given tv show—if the characters involved make correct moral choices, it’s a good show. this is why the sopranos is considered one of the worst shows ever made, and it’s why every year the outstanding drama emmy goes to paw patrol

Chapter 25 Postscript

Twenty-five chapters into a book with 135 chapters, Melville titles a chapter, “Postscript”!! What a fucking king 👑

Loving the filter on this**

(**Yes, I know it's my fault because of my settings: I'm not changing that)

Edgar Allen Poe's friends at a party:

i know genx invented body shots because you get to drink out of the hoes

excerpt from story of the lost child with the line ‘the pedantry of the bostonians’ highlighted

boston catching strays in the neapolitan novels lmao

An unattributed news source via a Newsbreak news aggregation push notification reading: Headlines: Leonardo DiCaprio forced to miss awards show due to fallout from US military operation in Venezuela

It really IS just one battle after another for this guy 😔

Skeleton Bull Fighters

Skeleton Bull Fighters https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/98881

Mogwai

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

fuck yes!

I once Uber’ed Pat Benatar and she reported me as a hard braker

Initially, I though that this was about the Trader Joe's parking lot ... at any of the Trader Joe's

Honorable mention for Vineland, which I didn't dislike, but it's different now, many years later, when it's clear that there are only like two characters that get to be real people.

I did not like if Beale Street Could Talk

Noone gets to grow or be anything other than a stand-in for an idea or a goofy plot device

I think that Twilight Sleep is the worst Wharton novel

I did not like Justine, though I did start watching the Durrells of Corfu - but that was mostly because of the extended joke in the last season of Brooklyn 99.

"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation."

--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Maybe I'll do a quick list of books I didn't like later, too.

Because I want to be a misanthrope (wrong word, but close). I'm really not though.

Anyway, I started MoR and I'm, now, reading that at the same time as Demon Copperhead.

The Penelope chapter, Absalom Absalom, but not Sam Beckett.

It's the story of a guy gets off a train, goes to a historic castle, and gets back on the train: But also got long sentences. They're really long. And I'm such a sucker