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Nicholas Charles

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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 3h
I hope I’m here in 20,000 years to see the night sky of Babylon.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 3h
I hope I’m here in 20,000 years to see the night sky of Babylon.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think I would take fame over love, Yet, if I cannot have fame, I guess I’ll put up with love.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is not a love story: it is a tale of passion, an all consuming obsession - the human condition.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“ my sister always told me I am inspired her. I thought that’s what I was doing around here. I didn’t realize when I was talking to people I was bothering them. So from now on, I’ll just come in and do what I need to do and then leave. “ - A member of the public
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A Sunday of reading: intimate & intelligent.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In the face of existential limitations and possibly anxiety and despair, this poet acknowledges the limits of themselves and other’s. @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today's newsletter: -Texas has delayed its maternal mortality report until after the midterms -Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled -Conservatives want abortion on the 2028 ballot in Massachusetts -A Louisiana business gives little girls pretend ultrasounds before they "adopt" dolls 🙃
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Report: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Doubled
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📖
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Uncanny how I encountered Freud’s The Uncanny on a shelf in a bookstore, walked away, came back and it was already taken…this morning reading Zambreno’s Appendix Project and appendix c is on the uncanny.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
😭😭😭
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh, what a journey! I am pretty sure Gregor Samsa and Moby Dick had a love child, and this book is the result. @deepvellum.bsky.social
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My child is claiming that words do not have ontological reality…
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yes. @eccobooks.bsky.social #kafka #literature
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A dazzling collection by @abipollokoff.bsky.social , A poetic inquiry into the phenomenology of perception, space, dreams, and the body.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Make the time…so good @veryhotmomm.bsky.social 🙏🏻🫶🏻
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
So good! Looking forward to watch yesterdays session @mayacpopa.bsky.social
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’d rather be a hopeless romantic than a melancholy misanthropic misogynist.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
theguardian.com
‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
After dwelling upon the cinematic interpretation of one of the foundations of western literature: the fundamental flaw in the retelling is the radical reframing Odysseus psychology. As a film it hits the mark.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Odysseus is not Hamlet, god damn it!
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Isn’t ironic, don’t you think? @mayacpopa.bsky.social #poetry
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Child: So Odysseus was gone for 20 years? Me: Yes. Child: He left when his kid was a baby? Me: Yes Child: That’s devastating.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
All modernism is the enemy of fascism. 😘
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sirius, the Dog Star, the brightest star in my sky, harbinger of heat & fever, a touchstone for myself and this book alike. Writing, the very act of, along with discursive inquiry, guide us through this profound work like white hot light. @transitbooks.bsky.social
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I thought I shared my reflections on this raw and vulnerable collection…it is a window into the language and modes of being in the world, the body, desire, and gaze of the other (in particularly the male gaze and its discontents). Lovely #poetry
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Brave Little Belgium
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Yeah, maybe I’m a sociopath.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“The way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.” Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The unbearable longing to be understood…
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
There are no words for this masterpiece of language and literature. de Beauvoir‘s love of learning is timeless, rare, and sublime. #bookish #bookworm #book
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“I am alone. One is always alone. I shall always be alone.” Simone De Beauvoir
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’m not dead yet.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The question what if AI can write a poem that pass the Turing test is not an interesting question.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Trump wishes he was half as cultured as Nero. He’s merely only as unhinged.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Awful hustle, yet sublime flow…
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“what's the point of life if you can't eat mashed potatoes in the morning and have a good fuck at night?” The Tunnel
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“As a way to promote the submarine in God?” What?!
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Happy Bloomsday, bitches!
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I dislike healing, leave me broken please.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman.” William H. Gass, The Tunnel
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I am not always prone to ironic laughter, but when I am, it is a sentiment confession.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I’m coming home, Baron.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It is a poem for the time being or for a time being?
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I saw an old friend today, yet I had to go. 🌑🌳
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ride or die, fat ass.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I do not have time for being.
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
What is my superpower?
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
So looking forward to reading this brand new 💎 📖! @kelliagodon.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
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Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Quite goddamn good. @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social #poetry
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