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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He puts a bullet point list of a private discussion he had with the head coach and he has these two points, supposedly spoken by the head coach

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolute pure Flemish countryside. Two absolute monster motorways a km either side and if you're born here you'd consider yourself from a village, despite being a 10 minute walk from a tram that takes you to the 5th biggest city in Belgium in less than 20 minutes. Unbeatable. Nonsensical.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Picked this up based on the recommendation from American critic Tom Leclair. A set of dreamings that double-up as a type of world-knowing. Fiction, I think.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Iain Sinclair on Jeffrey Archer's thrillers.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When the price of the book is higher than you would like and the price of the ebook is higher than you would like too

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nighttime reading for an on-going piece. I never ever use this terminology - but WHH is truly one of Britain's genuine heroes.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Was reading Tom Leclair's essay in the art of excess on GR today, and picked up another thread of how to read the book.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of my favourite minor things in life is that if there's an American post-modernist novel over a thousand pages, that effectively ONLY Tom Leclair is allowed to review it.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I listen, every time I remember. 10/10 album. Flawless. In Patrick Wolf's own lyrics in 'Teignmouth', "in skewed ascension, with no destination".

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh hell yeah. I will say it again. The BEST new British artist there is.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Been putting this off a long time - but going to start the Wessex novels. Known about Powys for years through Colin Wilson & Iain Sinclair but I only have the outline, not the centre.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Listened to it at full blast on an empty motorway at night.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I DARE you to read this Pochetinno quote without Adam Curtis voice in your head

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bought this solely on the synopsis. Also I think Alicoha is the name of one of the characters from The Brothers Karamazov, which is a *sign*

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I took out my exegesis on it in the end, but I saw it creep up in the album artwork for the MPTL Microplastics LP. You can see it underneath the crucified policeman. The article became an occult, theological & economic history of microplastics if interested: urblindspot.substack.com/p/mptl-micro...

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The life-giver river of the Scheldt, taken this morning on a run.

The Scheldt (de Schelde) on the 27 September 2026

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Packing away all my books for painting and can never not be happy when I see this.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People are saying it's the most AI non-AI image of all time.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh hell yeah. My favourite type of writing: Far-reaching ambiguity that is artistically ballasted by the roaring potential of the internet that is a great unknown canvas that will SURELY make sense of everything.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Went to SELL books but stumbled upon an old freak bookseller who had a new place and traded a few for these two. Not bad for Ghent, Belgium. Traded couple of Nabokovs and Infinite Jest.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is always 100% pure comfort reading. What an endeavour.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We got Don Delillo acknowledging and re-releasing his horny field hockey novel from the 1980s before GTA6

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I received an advanced copy of this and it is absolutely astonishing. A blend of Marcus Schwob, Anna Kavan, and The King in Yellow. So rich and strange, with the riparian tides of the short sections coaxing. Only read the Cathedral Of Mist short stories before, but this eclipses those.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It all brings to mind what Mark Fisher said, psychology is the understanding of why we do things that make us unhappy. Why are people doing this?

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many things you see it?

Scene from season finale of Six Feet Under

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tom McCarthy had this remark about how Finnegans Wake wasn't the end of literature but the beginning and would be the source code for the next form of fiction which I think in another Joyce article (about him working for Google(?)) he said would be hypertextual

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Finding this one late. Mesmeric.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just looked it up for collection in Ghent. And lo & behold, listening party with the man himself next weekend at the hip record cafe on the water

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Emotional support stack of books while I do the day-job which is decidedly not cultural.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Too many books on go now, don't think I will get to this in near-future, but always good to have a 'break glass in case of emergency' book like this

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Listening to this, reading David Jones. You better believe it. There's an article I am writing where I can't figure out the opening line.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Always the note you want to strike when making a huge announcement, immediately having to clarify it isn't another announcement.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They've even repressed the re-release

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It was just a tease to sell you their debut album again. In case you missed it the first two times and want to pay £50 this time. That's gone down well.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Mini haul from Ostende rommelmarkt / flea-market.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Got reminded of the towering Tom Raworth today, so reacquainting myself with him via his 'lost book' of the 1970s.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now making way through all my Black Sabbath.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The long Belgian summer holiday is over. So back to working in home office. To get me back in the right mood! First up

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Me & my mates have a selection of our faves from him & Liew in our group chat. This is the most The Onion, most spot-on headline hes ever done. It was after the game vs. Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For 2 years I was writing mostly UK Drill reviews. I am fascinated by the sound, one that reminds me of my youth in Edmonton. Paranoia, violence, being cut off from London, despite being a part of it. I marvel at those who made art in that environment. 10 years since my fav drill release - by 67

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