Malkintrash
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Eclectic personal brand, a poor fit for your TL guaranteed. He/him. Autonomist. Reads Français / 中文 but posts on main in English
Eclectic personal brand, a poor fit for your TL guaranteed. He/him. Autonomist. Reads Français / 中文 but posts on main in English
![Healthy fast food chain Leon Restaurants saw sales at its eight branches around London fall 20 per cent during the recent super-hot spell — but founder John Vincent claims the dip in takings at the till wasn’t solely down to the weather.
“It’s not the heatwave that is hurting London, it is the UK’s increasingly nanny state response to anything out of the ordinary,” says Vincent. “At the station last Wednesday [24th June], the announcement told me not to travel unless absolutely necessary. Says who?” he asks. “Tube strikes, National Insurance, business rates, the clampdown on the night-time economy, the cold, the heat… don’t be surprised when there isn’t any commerce left in London.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtpzeqayqlljktdug5msk3op/bafkreihyro3aqa7wgblobydjkiag4py4kp5mkamxqjj6i7rogmofcyw2uy)
![Celia Dropkin's lyrics come fully loaded. They are erotically frank and emotionally unabashed, deeply engendered, relentlessly truthful. They are terse and musical, like songs, and carefully constructed to explode with maximum impact.
Edward Hirsch, from the Foreword
These remarkably vivid poems could be titled something like "Sensation-And How To Think It." They are carefully made, but the poet allows herself a certain carelessness to say the unsayable. She is interested in violence and tenderness together, as our nervous systems seem to be. There are lovely Reznikoffian glimpses of Manhattan; there are the pleasures of the short poem-the poem passing but lingering. The poems are of their time in the best possible way: you want to be there then, too. Early in the 20th century, in New York, having learned Yiddish or some other language new to you, watching a new age be born as if that were natural. This is a unique moment, still alive. The poems are still alive.
Alice Notley
Among the more experimental Yiddish poets in early twentieth-century New York, Dropkin was significant both for her exploration of open verse as a compositional strategy & for her assertions of female desire beyond the limits observed by most of her contemporaries, both in Yiddish & in English. Dropkin participated in the already active Yiddish poetry world, including the experimental In-Zikh (Introspectivist) poets, while developing more markedly transgressive themes than theirs: sexuality, depression, guilt & longing, fury, violence, even at its limits the representation of sado-masochism & other taboo, once hidden subjects. Her work in that sense is a further confirmation of Kenneth Rexroth's observation: "A good case could be made for the claim that the best writing done in America in the first quarter of the [twentieth] century was in Yiddish."
Jerome Rothenberg](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtpzeqayqlljktdug5msk3op/bafkreidlpe7zmfylol4brsok3ic6olid4hieajeb4o4aqavuhez6r5noza)
![However, some experts had doubts. In 1959, oil sands pioneer Robert Fitzsimmons of the International Bitumen Company wrote a letter to the Edmonton Journal, saying "While the writer does not know anything about nuclear energy and is therefore not qualified to make any definite statement as to it's [sic] results he does know something about the effect dry heat has on those sands and ventures a guess that if it does not turn the whole deposit into a burning inferno it is almost sure to fuse it into a solid mass of semi glass or coke."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtpzeqayqlljktdug5msk3op/bafkreidwhe4q5vy5mioqpgtbqv2425xuxgrddn4izodigmpldb47ukffey)
![Wikipedia extract:
As a natural food substance, manna would produce waste products; but in classical rabbinical literature, as a supernatural substance, it was held that manna produced no waste, resulting in no defecation among the Israelites until several decades later, when the manna had ceased to fall.[33] Modern medical science suggests the lack of defecation over such a long period of time would cause severe bowel problems, especially when other food later began to be consumed again. Classical rabbinical writers say that the Israelites complained about the lack of defecation, and were concerned about potential bowel problems.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtpzeqayqlljktdug5msk3op/bafkreig2uvliko72epa4ubilhvlm4624fleye2atdkggsnk22m2cjpbo2m)
