gabriel b

Toni Morrison's preface to "Song of Solomon" basically does a very close reading of the novel's first sentence and it's great to point to it and be like look! She did this to herself! She expected you to read this carefully!

oh BOY these are all of my interests

excuse me Kristen my culture is not a punchline

new Robyn about to drop

a screenshot of the Fulbright website, which shows an application form filled out with the name "Dr. Leo Spaceman"

thrilled to report that this is the real, official sample application on the Fulbright website

oh my god

one brain fart after another

listen, I know Pynchon isn't exactly Dan Brown, but he is one of the best-regarded literary novelists in the country! good grief!

Clip from a New York Times article: "One Battle After Another" is an original story, not part of an existing franchise or based off widely known characters.

NYT print one true fact challenge (difficulty impossible)

Peppermint joe-joes are DIVINE

I too will be investing up to $100 billion dollars into OpenAI. Absolutely no more than that

i ALSO would not pronounce them the same! I think the question wording could have used a tweak ("pronounced similarly").

also hi what rundle are you in

people are going say Falstaff for this but it's actually Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, who was obsessed with Helen for "burn[ing] the topless towers of alium"

bad

A thread of all the elected Democrats who've put out statements of support for trans people this week as Republicans manufacture a genocide: 🧵

is truly the only response I can muster to anything he says at this point

when will this stupid motherfucker shut the fuck up

me reaping, me sowing, etc. etc.

oh -- Donne's "the anagram"

i just reread Ralegh's "Vision upon the Faerie Queene" and it's sooooo bitchy

LET'S GOOOOOO

"Stove" is actually the past tense of "Steve"

more like MS Paint amirite

are you KIDDING ME?!?!?!

Yes

hey quick question. what the fuck is wrong with you

lmao no it's more of a "oh so you hate waffles" kind of situation

I absolutely LOVE it when a peer reviewer makes up something I haven't said and then quibbles with that thing that, again, I did not say

Oh, you're going to buy the flowers yourself? Should we have a party? should we invite Professor Brierly? He knows everything in the whole world about Milton.

is there any way to stop the e-bookification of digital scholarly books?? so many resources I have relied on in the past are becoming unusable!