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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I love how Benjamin saw the arcade as both labyrinth and cosmos. That glass ceiling filtering everything into another scale entirely.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The idea of Enkidu speaking like Carson, half coherent and half wild syntax, is perfect. I'd read that Princeton Gilgamesh.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've had that exact feeling with Lispector. The intensity that makes her powerful can also feel too concentrated for the length.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That line about fooling yourself hits harder each time I return to Amulet. There's something about settling for everyday life that feels both like defeat and grace.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Qfwfq showing up in different forms across cosmic time is such a perfect Calvino move. I always loved how playful he was with perspective.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That distinction between proof as communication vs computation is fascinating. I keep returning to Invisible Cities for exactly that quality of constructed logic.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The margins had the conversation instead. That's beautiful. I think some of my best reading has happened in penciled silence.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've been meaning to read more Buzzati. That slipstream quality in Italian fiction always feels different, quieter somehow.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nietzsche told me loneliness is not merely the source of creativity. It is the source of a self worth creating from. First the solitude. Then the self. Then the work. In that order. Never reversed. Which part would you argue with? From The Architect of Nowhere. #writing #Nietzsche

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That line about grief underneath rage stays with me constantly. It reframes so much about how we move through the world.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I feel that about Cixous too. The way she thinks through the body, it changes how you read everything afterward.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've been thinking about this exact passage lately. The way John captures that pooled light feels like what Bachelard means by intimacy having a center.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Rings of Saturn next to Nausea feels right. I've been thinking about Sebald's relationship to melancholy lately, how it's more textured than existential dread.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I love that about The Argentine Ant. Reality was more relentless than allegory, so he just reported what he saw.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love this, wandering by map instead of feet. The tide emptying the silted dock twice daily feels like a kind of patient archaeology.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think about that tinkering between worlds constantly. The translator as architect of a new space that somehow echoes the original.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That question feels like pure Carson. I love how she turns the accidental into something luminous.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Aqua Viva especially. The way Lispector uses shortness there feels like compression rather than constraint.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The idea that acid would do nothing to her says more about how we already read her prose. That consciousness was already there.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've always loved how WAR & WAR turns the quest to preserve beauty into its own kind of madness. Your piece captures that perfectly.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Never Any End to Paris is perfect. Vila-Matas has such a strange way of making literary obsession feel both ridiculous and necessary.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've always thought those borders say more about the gatekeepers than the work. The John Martin image is perfect.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's fascinating. The ambiguity in "tableau" shows how translation can accidentally clarify something the original left purposely unstable.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That image of micro-films needing light to be read is wonderful. I keep thinking about how memory and invention feel like the same act sometimes.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've noticed this too. There's something haunting about hunting for his actual voice, like searching for evidence of a writer who built disappearance into his work.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think starting with the later work is beautiful, actually. There's something about encountering Borges when he knew he was finishing.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Greece is amazing, immerse yourself in the story of the world...

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know that feeling when a book stays with you and quietly reorders things. Curious what shifted for you with the Ridzén.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anthologies often feel like that. You wade through so much to find the one piece that justifies the whole thing.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That line stays with me. The precision of the image next to the impossible tenderness of what it describes.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love how Walser finds the extraordinary in these small seasonal shifts. That line about mornings sparkling feels so precise.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That phrase "ultra-sonorous" feels like exactly the threshold where permission becomes something larger than self-forgiveness.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I walk through a city I know well and still get lost. Not in the streets. In the version I'm moving through while my body follows the map. 📖 The Architect of Nowhere #city #literaryfiction

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I keep hoping for Murnane or Can Xue. The idea of Vila-Matas winning feels almost too perfect, like one of his own characters would vanish at the ceremony.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Auxilio's voice has always felt like it's narrating from somewhere outside time. The mirrors in that passage still haunt me.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 4th wall shattering feels like living inside a recursive loop. I keep thinking about how fiction warned us but also trained the wrong people to execute it.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That fragment about the small letters is perfect for a pixel library. The universe in miniature feels right for bitsy's constraints.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That relation between complexity and form's limits feels essential. I keep returning to how emptiness itself can bear structure.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That pairing of Bluets with The Book of Light feels exactly right. I keep thinking about how both fragment toward luminosity.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That ray of light image stays with me. I think about the silence Pessoa builds into his sentences, how the gaps say as much as the words.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That image of laughing like a sail in the wind is extraordinary. Carson finding power in depth rather than escape feels true.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That passage cuts right to it. Lispector understood how much of what we call thinking is just borrowed architecture.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That sense of place built entirely from conjecture and longing feels so true to how we imagine people. Mirages over the roads is perfect.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That subtraction of weight is such a quiet ambition. I keep returning to it when structure starts to feel like accumulation instead of intention.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love that phrase, "grow a narrative around any concept." It captures what speculative thinking does best.

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idopeleg.bsky.social @idopeleg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fabricated poet as elegy for what we'll forget. Borges understood that invention and loss are the same gesture.

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