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Jeffrey Archer dead - letter from the English Collective of Prostitutes following his conviction for perjury and a few months after Monica Coughlan's death

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lumpen Café Gyeongju. Not sure this is what Marx had in mind but happy to go along with the positive spin. (And the terrific food snd coffee.)

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Glad to be back in the TLS @thetls.bsky.social with a piece on Camus's notebooks this week. Reading the notebooks brought home to me just how much he still had left to write and say. www.the-tls.com/literature-b...

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An occasional series on the travelability of iconic writers. Today it's Montaigne in Seoul. Not clear from outside or indeed inside what the great essayist had to do with this place, but if you want to attract the digressive urban customer, it works.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes! See you there. Can do the riverside industrial walk too

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Such fuckers. 1984 language too by way of The Office.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very sad to hear of Bonnie Greer's death. We appeared together at the Frankfurt Book fair a few years ago & spent happy hours exploring the city. I enjoyed her company and insight, her particularly memorable discussion of Hedda Gabler which she was adapting, and a visit to Goethe's house.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A strange out of body experience when instagram suggested for me a book I edited and introduced. Very Huysmansian sense at once of singularity and futility

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Despite the dust, the age and the abandonment, there's something enduring about these perfect shoes on their perfect wooden feet. A whole world stepping out.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The 2d one is Caernarfon! Above the Four Alls?

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Chimneyscapes of the 10th arrondissement

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

it's interesting isn't it that for some in the media and government: Holding up a sign declaring support for a group = Terrorism. Storming a port in masks and all black clothes to try and force political change = Protest.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I must have thought, back in late June/early July, that I'd need a snack when I returned to my desk in college in September. The banana of summers past.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Villiers de l Isle Adam and Bonaparte Wyse makes the Breton-waterford connection...

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Preparing a book on Rimbaud, hence Charleville. Rimbaud and Verlaine used to visit Bouillon and stay in the Hôtel des Ardennes. My great-grandmother and her mother were chambermaids there. It can't be ruled out that my g-g-gm changed their sheets.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Make sure you do the llandudno cable car and the great orme tramway

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yes, its a bit less annoying than the English Passing... Ed Dorn said when you die you don't disappear, you reappear - dead.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And here you can hear his haunting lyrics sung by Jacques Marchais La Vie s'écoule... La vie s'écoule la vie s'enfuit share.google/qiAVnfLBgDHL...

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Raoul Vaneigem, lifelong heretic and heretophile(?), a thinker and scholar, poet of revolt & ex situationist comrade (then not) of Guy Debord. His Traité de savoir vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations was an inspiration in 68 and remains thrilling to read. www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

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Mort de Raoul Vaneigem, philosophe libertaire et inspirateur de Mai 68

Le penseur belge, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», in...

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Libération @liberation.fr · 30/07/2026

⚫ Le penseur belge Raoul Vaneigem, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», inspirateur de Mai 68. ➡️ l.liberation.fr/Vc3

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Big fans of the Sedan branch. Our home from home, from home.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Another satisfied tourist leaves a review. Bouillon, Rue Saint Nicolas.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just been in, furniture seems to be stored next door but intact. Carrelage too

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just had a heartening conversation with the young man who's taken over- theyre redoing the toilets , plumbing electrics etc to be 'dans les normes' but intend to keep it as close as possible to the original. Big job - reopening by end of year... will keep you posted and we can have an Orval there.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Lovely picture. I am trying to find out what's happened to all the beer paraphernalia- lights, ads, clocks etc. Probably on e Bay.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Every regular becomes a ghost in their local. Unless the local itself becomes the ghost. I used to come here and dislodge my grandfather Eugène from the bench by the window. And have been dislodged in my turn, and now finally. Café du Centre, Bouillon, 193?-2026.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Yes and what used to be a very good French section plus the RSThomas archive. He'd ha r taken a dim view of 'hub/hyb'...

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A lot of what's wrong with the people who run universities can be summarised in the word 'hub', notably, as here, replacing the word 'library' (or llyfrgell as here).

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

These are great! Want one for myhouse

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think there was but I cant recall if we went. That said if there were 'des scônes' she'd have been there.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I used to go with my mum in the 80s/90s, often had book signings and author talks

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Been almost impossible heat here. But next time go see the Graves house. Special and modest.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Robert Graves’s house in Deià, Mallorca. His desk, his Aga, his jams (by now probably explosive) and my face in his shaving mirror while he recites 'The Face in thr Mirror' in that mirror on the screen beside me.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Loved it. Please write the book you so clearly have the material for!

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Belgian Red Devils @belreddevils.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Overturn this! 😎

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A bit late to this. Once again, Stefan Collini's great article for @lrb.co.uk tells the truth about the REF. I'm wondering how we across subjects and universities can start to mobilise in this direction...

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Do you like Hipster Marx 😎 Or are you, like Robbie Williams, loving Engels instead? 😃

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Honoured and excited to be a judge, with such fantastic fellow judges. Currently making some shelf-space...

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