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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

it actually sort of undermines the poem for me to learn that this is the man "Having a Coke With You" is about (ballet dancer Vincent Warren). this guy actually IS hotter than all art

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

also did you guys know that Hemingway's final wife, Mary, liked to "be a boy" during sex with him, and played erotic games where she made him "be the girl," and wrote in her diary about the two of them goofing around and conducting this pretend interview:

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

everyone knows about Virginia Woolf saying "on or about 1910 human character changed" but I feel like it's less known that she immediately follows this up with a relatable example: have you ever noticed that your cook has gotten so overfamiliar with you these days?

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

now I'm revisiting James Joyce's letters to Nora. I think he's referring to the g-spot here? once again in awe of this genius mind

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

last night I was going through photos my ex-husband took of me at the Central Park Zoo in 2018, and LOOK WHAT I FOUND. I completely forgot this photo existed (because at the time the owl wasn't famous)

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

personally I think an inch is a gorgeous thing to have

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I recently rewatched The Wizard of Oz and was really surprised to notice for the first time that the Wizard humorously implies that all war veterans are cowards. I feel like 1939 was the last possible year Hollywood could get away with a joke like that

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

thinking about how "A Visit From St. Nicholas" is one of our culture's only depictions of the sensual pleasures of fatness

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

an erstwhile lover just sent me this tweet captioned "you"

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

just read this passage (fig. 1) and then caught myself committing this fallacy (fig. 2)

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I never do this but I just started eating a snack that is ROCKING MY WORLD to the extent that I immediately need to post about it because I can't keep it to myself. I got it in the candy/snack aisle at CVS so you probably can too. run, don't walk. this snack will change your life

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I finished the book! I’m really going to miss her. I wish I knew which apartment she lived in so I could knock on her door and ask for more annotated books

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“what happened w/ RomRom?” (that would be Romero the bullfighter. LOVE that we’re calling him RomRom)

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

(in response to “the fiesta exploded”) “like a bomb?”

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“christ” “HAHA ok that’s mean” “oh shit” “OH SHIT”

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I’m starting to feel like I know her more intimately than I know some of my best friends

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“so weird, Bill. What is with you today?”

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“gay everywhere” oh she’s so me

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

(in response to a sleepy character refusing to get out of bed) “same”

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

(after several chapters set in Basque country, she suddenly wonders) “what are Basques?”

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

(at a description of Paris) “wow” (at a mention of a straight couple walking down the street) “cute”

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

uh-oh she's really short-circuiting here

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

“what I’m so confused — they have a backstory?” it’s like being in a movie theater behind someone who keeps loudly whispering “who’s that? what did he just say while I was asking who’s that?”

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"gay makes him feel like they're wasting dicks on men"

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

she LITERALLY says "getting a lot of Gatsby vibes from this" (that note says "hm. I'm getting a Gatsby vibe and idk why")

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

someone left a copy of The Sun Also Rises in my building’s laundry room, and I’d been meaning to read it so I figured it was fate and I took it. but now I’m reading it and it’s heavily annotated by someone who makes notes like “LOL” and doesn’t know what a newspaper is

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

every now and then I namesearch on Reddit and the results are ALWAYS full of posts like this (because people are recommending my book in the replies)

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