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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Um ... looks like UPenn never finished their acknowledgements and permissions page for the online edition of Frankenstein

Acknowledgments and Permissions
The Text
The text is Copyright blah blah blah.... ???
The Critical Articles
[!!! Individual copyrights for each article.]
The Software
Netscape is Copyright ???

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In "Modern Fiction", Woolf raves about Chekhov's story "Gusev" ("as the eyes accustom themselves to twilight and discern the shapes of things in a room we see how complete the story is, how profound"). And she's right, it's an absolute banger. With the most absurd and moving death in all literature.

Gusev goes back to the sick bay and lies down on his cot. As before he suffers from some vague yearning, and he cannot figure out what he wants. There is a weight on his chest, a throbbing in his head, his mouth is so dry that he can hardly move his tongue. He dozes and mutters and, tormented by nightmares, coughing, and stuffiness, falls fast asleep towards morning. He dreams that they have just taken the bread out of the oven in the barracks, and he gets into the oven and has a steambath, lashing himself with birch branches. He sleeps for two days, and on the third day two sailors come from topside and carry him out of the sick bay. He is sewn up in canvas and, to weight him down, two iron bars are put in with him. Sewn up in canvas, he comes to resemble a carrot or a black radish, wide at the head, narrow towards the foot. . . Before sunset he is taken out on deck and laid on a plank; one end of the plank rests on the rail, the other on a box placed on a stool. Discharged soldiers and the ship's crew stand around him with their hats off.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An AI slop account on Facebook called "English Literature Gems" posted this version of "In a Station of the Metro" with new hallucinated lines (and breathtaking rhymes)

In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

These faces that I see
Inspire me with the desire
Of tender smiles that I may never see.

Not one of all the women that I see
Will interest me.

No, not one of all the millions
Will interest me.

And in the midst of this
I feel there is not one
To whom I can turn.

For these I have seen
Faces that I dream of all my life,
Faces that haunt me when I close my eyes.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Uncanny that Mary Shelley, at 18, knew how hard it was for adult men to make a new friend

… I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavor to regulate my mind.
Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Research by an IQ scientist who signed the Cofnas petition is exactly what you'd imagine it to be

Research Articles
August 07, 2026 CDT
Bright People Know More About Wine
Maximilian Krolo, Timothy C. Bates

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A relative was throwing out this (apparently notorious?) charity record covering every song on Sgt Pepper, featuring Wet Wet Wet and a British rap version of the title track, but also somehow Sonic Youth, The Fall, The Wedding Present, and The Triffids. How bad can it be … ?

Back cover of LP, Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father, with a tracklist:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Three Wize Men
With a Little Help from My Friends – Wet Wet Wet
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – The Christians
Getting Better – The Wedding Present with Amelia Fletcher
Fixing a Hole – Hue & Cry
She’s Leaving Home – Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! – Frank Sidebottom
Within You Without You – Sonic Youth
When I'm Sixty-Four – Courtney Pine Quartet
Lovely Rita – Michelle Shocked
Good Morning Good Morning – The Triffids
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) – The Three Wize Men
A Day in the Life – The Fall

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Debussy is literally crack for Mme. Verdurin

From La Prisonnière (trans. Moncrieff): "the Mistress, while pretending not to have heard anything, and preserving in her fine eyes, shadowed by the habit of listening to Debussy more than they would have been by that of sniffing cocaine, the extenuated expression that they derived from musical intoxication alone, revolved nevertheless behind her splendid brow, inflated by all those quartets and the headaches that were their consequence, thoughts which were not exclusively polyphonic, and unable to contain herself any longer, unable to postpone the injection for another instant, flung herself upon the speakers, drew them apart, and said ..."

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

How to spot a villain in Proust: when they think Debussy is bad

From Sodom et Gomorrhe (trans. Moncrieff): "even in the presence of the narrowest of provincial ladies she could not remain for five minutes without feeling the need to confess them. When a noble dame of Avranches, who would have been incapable of distinguishing between Mozart and Wagner, said in Mme. de Cambremer's hearing: "We saw nothing of any interest while we were in Paris, we went once to the Opéra-Comique, they were doing Pelléas et Mélisande, it's dreadful stuff," Mme. de Cambremer not only boiled with rage but felt obliged to exclaim: "Not at all, it's a little gem," and to 'argue the point.' It was perhaps a Combray habit which she had picked up from my grandmother's sisters, who called it 'fighting in the good cause,' and loved the dinner-parties at which they knew all through the week that they would have to defend their idols against the Philistines."

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The stuff in here about Musk’s apartheid South Africa as a fortified technofascist enclave is illuminating and horrible

Front cover of MUSKISM: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Coleridge imagining British imperialism as a cloud of pestilence (from "Fears In Solitude. Written In April, 1798, During The Alarm Of An Invasion")

Even now, perchance, and in his native isle:
Carnage and groans beneath this blessed sun!
We have offended, oh! my countrymen!
We have offended very grievously,
And been most tyrannous. From east to west
A groan of accusation pierces Heaven!
The wretched plead against us; multitudes
Countless and vehement, the sons of God,
Our brethren! Like a cloud that travels on,
Steamed up from Cairo's swamps of pestilence,
Even so, my countrymen! have we gone forth
And borne to distant tribes slavery and pangs,
And, deadlier far, our vices, whose deep taint
With slow perdition murders the whole man,
His body and his soul!

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In this version, Marcel gets huge

A cheap ebook edition of Proust, which they've called "Cities of Plain", by Musaicum Books. Featuring a painting of a nude hunk (overlaid with an MS Paint pixelated effect)

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Complementing my cat in Old English

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

[to the tune of Farewell Transmission] wine dark bluuuuuues

Headline: Christopher Nolan couldn't escape 'despair'. So he made 'The Odyssey.'

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Started as a joke, now I’m doing the reading

Cover of Matt King’s A History of Goblins

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It’s weird that “krautrock” is still called “krautrock”

The term "krautrock" was popularised by British music journalists as a pejorative umbrella-label for the diverse German scene, 18) and although many such artists disliked the term, it subsequently fell into standard usage.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I want to be the guy who describes the music in the subtitles

Subtitle for a scene in a tv show that says "dark, inexorable music"

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What's the theory equivalent of vibe coding

Freud writes: "Why hats and cloaks are used in the same way (ie. as sexual symbols), is certainly difficult to divine, but their symbolic meaning is certainly unquestionable." Later, in his New Introductory Lectures (5), Freud was able to add some explanatory details regarding the symbolism of cloaks, but was still, apparently, unable to cast further light on the symbolism of hats.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Finally got some reading glasses in my 40s

Homer Simpson in bed with his endearing little reading glasses

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Handing someone a copy of Moby-Dick hidden in my big overcoat

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Sonny Rollins has left us at 95. Can you believe how hard this album cover goes

LP of Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West (1957) with Rollins in full cowboy regalia out in the badlands

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A Bayesian analysis concludes that Lucy in Dracula likely had Type A blood. Thank you, Science! imj.ie/bayesian-ana...

IMJ
Bayesian Analysis Of Blood Transfusion In
Dracula
M O'Connor, N Dunbar
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon,
USA

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Love how Darwin in the final sentence of his second last book is like "btw plants have brains". Lived for the drama.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle thus endowed, and having the power of directing the movements of the adjoining parts, acts like the brain of one of the lower animals; the brain being seated within the anterior end of the body, receiving impressions from the sense-organs, and directing the several movements.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I found it: the nastiest historical slang for sexual intercourse

† figurative and in figurative context. to hit the master-vein (slang): to make a sexual conquest. Obsolete.

1592
My faire daughter was hit on the master vaine and gotten with childe.
R. Greene, Disputation Conny-catcher

1614
I know a lad Can hit the maister-vaine.
W. Browne, Shepheards Pipe ii.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Seeing some red flags in this Marcus Clarke portrait (1866)

Sepia portrait from 1866. Gentleman lounging side-saddle on a chair with knee-high boots, cane, cravat, cocked hat.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Sometimes I think about the way he says “salad cream”

Beaky 70s leisurewear Joffrey child being sassy to John Cleese

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Just realised that the 1930s slang "great pair of gams" is obviously related etymologically to the viola da gamba - a viol you play between your gams

Clark Gable inspecting Carole Lombard's gams in No Man of Her Own (1932)

Portrait of Henriette of France with viola de gamba by Jean Marc Nattier, 1754

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Jessie Buckley was excellent in the 2018 adaptation of The Woman in White, fwiw

Buckley as Marian Halcombe looking wry with her beach horse

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This 2020 book from Laleh Khalili is super relevant and interesting on the Arabian Peninsula as an encampment for capital, logistics, and the war machine

It is something of a cliché that amateurs talk strategy while professionals do logistics. The fungibility of commercial and military transport – and especially maritime shipping – and commercial logistics’ borrowings from the military are welltrodden terrains of study. 99 On battlefields around the world, when the fighting recedes, the material and places of war-making are expediently transformed into sites of logistics and commerce. Military airfields become airports; landing sites for warships become ports; the detention centre at Camp Bucca in Iraq becomes Basra Logistics City; and the bases at Subic Bay and Clark in the Philippines become air-sea hubs. 100 But just as easily as military bases become emporia of trade, they can be reconverted into military outposts. Quartermasters of capital are so often indistinguishable from the masters of trade.

Front cover of Laleh Khalili's Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Dr Seward, Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing

Sting, Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart in a promo for All for Love

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