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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A Note on Keats' "Lamia": substack.com/@albertrolls...
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Some Preliminary Words on Keats’ “Lamia” (Parts of Which are for the Muldoon Essay) One might define the problem of Keats’ “Lamia” as the result of the division between Lamia’s space and Apollonius’s...
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A professor in anothe department asked me what I teach and then observed, "Can't AI do that?"
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I did not know about this: youtu.be/H_8Mr2OT6Ac?...
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The Beatles - Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Skit (Around The Beatles TV Special, 1964)
YouTube video by Kitsu Beatles
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 03/10/2026
Are you #substack reader? Well, our literary magazine is on Substack as well! Subscribe and get a free short story from our magazine emailed to you every Thursday! buff.ly/T6ZUanK #literarymagazine #litmag #fiction #shortstory #substack #ethics #philosophy #writerlift
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alchemy (secular) is possible: arxiv.org/abs/2507.13461
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Scalable Chrysopoeia via $(n, 2n)$ Reactions Driven by Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Neutrons
A scalable approach for chrysopoeia - the transmutation of base metals into gold - has been pursued for millennia. While there have been small-scale demonstrations in particle accelerators and proposa...
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Substack seems more enjoyable, though to be honest I don't get a lot of objectionable stuff here. Does Substack turn bad once one gets comfortable? (I particularly like the edit feature.)
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I posted something on Substack as I said I might do yesterday. Take a look, particularly if Muldoon interests you. substack.com/profile/2660...
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Albert Rolls (@albertrolls114536)
I’m trying to write on Paul Muldoon’s poetry, starting with “Gathering Mushrooms,” but I am hoping the thing can develop into a small book, not one that goes through Muldoon’s career publication by p...
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am sending you my résumé at the urging of an email from LinkedIn that, perhaps quixotically, asserts I am perfect for the Managing Editor position you are seeking to fill. I leave it to you to answer the question of our era: Is the algorithm correct?
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm watching Northern Lights, a movie about a homicide detective from Baltimore who goes to Alaska to become a small town sheriff. On his first call--to break up a fight between brothers--a guy is reading what must be a facsimile of the first edition of Ulysses in the snow-covered street.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worked all weekend on a paper. It's 300 words shorter. How's that for a word count?
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just gonna hang onto this, since it's certain to prove useful over and over again.
Black screen with text: "OPINION: GUEST ESSAY: This Is Really Bad"
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I hate jingoism and will probably avoid the Internet tomorrow. Maybe I'll be able to move a little forward on my Muldoon project. Is anyone who will see this into Muldoon?
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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Allow me to introduce myself in a new professional capacity: while the JHUP info isn't updated quite yet, I'm delighted to be taking over as Editor in Chief of College Literature here at WCUPA! Lit Studies people, please submit your brilliant work... www.press.jhu.edu/journals/col...
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College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ojs.unito.it/index.php/rs...
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RSAJournal
RSAJournal (Rivista di Studi Americani) is the official journal of AISNA. It is a double-blind peer reviewed journal and is published annually. It welcomes articles in all fields of American Studies a...
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What do you call a seafaring mathematician? A πrate
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's still Lake Ontario. And the Gulf of Mexico. You're welcome.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thinking about these black, orange, and white roses (dried) for the decor.
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lean over. I’ll whisper something to you: I am grateful for everything: for the chicken cartilage and for the chirr of scissors already cutting out the void for me—for it is your hem. - Joseph Brodkey, "Roman Elegies" www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2026/7/28/in-the-branches-of-ourselves
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"...in the branches of ourselves..." — alina Ştefănescu
The more invisible something is, the more certain it’s been around, and the more obviously it’s everywhere. — Joseph Brodkey since the bright beams cannot cut the cloud in two, the light gather...
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Love the algorithm: Based on your previous jobs Your top pick Live By The Sword Tattoo is seeking a Store Manager The site does have my résumé.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How much you want to bet someone in Hollywood has rejiggered a script and is at this very moment pitching a synthetic virus made-for-TV movie?
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@eve.gd Guinea Pig at the Ecuadorian parade.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The roses are flourishing in the overly wet summer.
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Ian Waters @ianwaters78.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Returning to Jonathan Sawday next week. I haven't read him in some time and perhaps ought to take down what I have of his on my shelf a reread that. My scattered habits are not goof for production.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
TFW every item on the bibliography is an hallucination.
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Magic: the Simpsoning @magicthesimpsoning.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Going outside this morning
Selma: My god, it's like five cigarettes at once!
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
www.sfgate.com/tech/article... Hilarious
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LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app
One in 5 survey respondents said they used it to research a potential partner.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The sun filtered through the ashy sky.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
nice to see someone with taste getting to do something good in the big five www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Outsider Editions Wants the Backlist’s Outcasts
The new reissue imprint at Doubleday offers a home to groundbreaking and hard-to-pin-down books that have disappeared from shelves.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Off to begin 7 hours of lecturing, sort of. There's a midterm today, so I have to be quiet for two and a half hours.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My sculpture garden
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Can you guess my favorite?
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I want to write an essay about a episode of Shelley's Frankenstein called "Hope is Paradise." It will just sit in my drop box, however.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Lecturing seven-and-a-half hours a day, four days a week is a trip. (Three classes, four-week summer term.)
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My cat will not allow me space. (I left him at a friend's for 12 days, while I visited Galway, Dortmund, and the Dublin.)
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Back in New York. Seeing Galway after almost 27 years was very interesting.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 21/06/2026
You know where has _really_ good embedded metadata? The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. It's just a shame they don't have DOIs for their articles. plato.stanford.edu/index.html
Zotero item details for a book section titled “The Common Good” by Hussain Waheed and Margaret Kohn, edited by Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman, published in the Fall 2024 edition of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by the Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University, dated 2024, with a URL to the archived entry.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My trip to The Winding Stair.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@publicradionerd.bsky.social I'm in Dublin and thought of you.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
At a German train station:
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The delay can still increase. It has done so since the delay was merely about 40 minutes.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pynchon Week
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What the hell, I thought Trump was saying he was building a bigger, better reflecting pool, one longer than the buildings were high. He was simply dying someone else's work? What the hell kind of boast is that?
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My cat awaits.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The friggin' hotel room has a kitchen and is bigger than apartments I've lived in.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A weird note as I wait for my plane to Germany to board, a painfully long wait: the first song i heard in Dublin Airport upon my arrival Ireland, was "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," and old Crosby, Stills, and Nashe song that I listened to a lot in the early 80s, dated even then.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Think I'm going to have a Tom McCarthy summer in preparation for the novel that's coming in the fall.
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Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-meta...
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The Meta-ropolitan Police – Clues, Codes, and the Algorithmic Infosphere – 3:AM Magazine
The past haunts the book, the London of Chris Petit’s Robinson or the multi-layered, mythic ruins of Michael Moorcock’s Mother London, or the time-shifting echoes of Iain Sinclair’s White Chappell, Sc...
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