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onemorebrown @onemorebrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I remember back in the 1980s when I was in high school (while in a group home) finding and reading as many banned books as I could. Good to see the tradition still alive!

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Transit #RachelCusk There has been a great harvest, he said, of language and information…the faux-human was growing more substantial…the mechanised interface was the distillation not of one human but of many…for him the erosion of individuality was also the erosion of the power to hurt.

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 28/09/2026

Reactivity and Illusion: A Post-Cartesian Perspective on the Distribution Question. Keith Frankish - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkO...

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Reactivity and Illusion: A Post-Cartesian Perspective on the Distribution Question. Keith Frankish

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We want to transcend, we want to pass beyond the limits of safe understanding, and what better way to do it than through make-believe. #SundaySentence Don DeLillo / Falling Man

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PDQ Bakhtin @thenovelconscious.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

True about our forbears, for us. 2nd generation accounts of them don’t prove as powerful, sadly.

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onemorebrown @onemorebrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Illusionism might actually turn out to be useful as a theory of AI consciousness

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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

💥 Boom! Yay ! 😎👇🏼

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#NoImmediateDanger #WilliamTVollmann We all have in us the ghosts of long-vanished things, of fallen cities and marvelous machines. #GeneWolfe, 1982 from #TheSwordoftheLictor of #TheBookoftheNewSun

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Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some exciting news: I have signed a contract to write 'Reading George Eliot: An Introduction' for the Routledge series Reading Literature Today. It seems like the book I have been preparing to write my whole career.

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Reading George Eliot

In my last post I noted that I had been looking up passages in The Mill on the Floss for reasons I would say more about in another post. This is that other post! It’s about some exciting news…

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#Ulysses #JamesJoyce From the playfield the boys raised a shout. A whirring whistle: goal… —The ways of the Creator are not our ways,Mr Deasy said… Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window,saying: —That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! —What? Mr Deasy asked. —A shout in the street,Stephen answered…

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#WomeninTranslationMonth #WITMonth #We #BelaShayevich, translator The man and woman in paradise were given a choice: they could either have happiness without freedom or freedom without happiness...Those blockheads chose freedom...but ended up spending the consequent centuries dreaming of shackles.

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New reviews of adventurous fiction at Unbeaten Paths: Avner Landes's The Delegation and Alvin Lu's Daydreamers are compelling works that explore "the possibilities inherent in the situation of writing itself." www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/the-situat...

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The Situation of Writing Itself

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Summer! When I lie dying, Mr. Watt, behind the red screen, you know, perhaps that is the word that will sound, summer, and the words for summer things. One word and a #SundaySentence Beckett / Watt

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Anthem Press @anthempress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

New in paperback! Develops, in a critical spirit, themes in Wittgenstein’s treatment of mind and language. Click here ➡️ tinyurl.com/46ffx697 #AnthemPress #Wittgenstein #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfLanguage #ContinentalPhilosophy #AnalyticPhilosophy #EthicsAndLanguage #MindAndLanguage #uwstd

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

“cohabiting comfortably with the incomprehensible . . .” Richard Powers The Gold Bug Variations

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳 “All the past a dim blank? Think of the time when we ran up and down in our arbor, where the green vines grew over the great ribs of the stranded whale. Oh, Yillah, little Yillah . . . am I forever forgotten?” ~Mardi C45

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I don't think our culture is ready for accepting this idea, and probably some percentage of humans never will be. My guess: hundreds of years from now a majority will agree with this, but many still won't, and it will correlate with religion and education. (See, e.g., Darwinian evolution) 🧠📈 🧪

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PDQ Bakhtin @thenovelconscious.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Nowhere else hardly you can get reviews with this depth. www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/unbeaten-p...

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On Brandon Hobson's The Devil is a Southpaw

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

#GreatJonesStreet #DonDeLillo “Man the primate has been violent for only forty thousand years. What started it was abstract thought…advanced from killing for food to killing for words and ideas. Maybe with mindless violence we're going into a new cycle…Violence for nothing.”

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

All the country about was broken up into low chalky hills, which were so intensely white, and spotted so evenly with sage, that they looked like white leopards crouching. White dust powdered everything, and the light was so intense that the station agent usually wore blue glasses.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Finished #RatnersStar #DonDeLillo There is a life inside this life…If only I could remember what the light was like in that space before I had eyes to see it with…There is something in the space between what I know and what I am and what fills this space is what I know there are no words for.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

HAMLET Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better to have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. #Hamlet_2026 Act II s2 (498-501)

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

#RatnersStar #DonDeLillo “The honeycomb,the starfish…all so stunningly reasoned in surface configuration…However,there's always the view that an ultimate symmetry is to be avoided…reason being that this structural balance represents not victory over chaos and death but death itself…”

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Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I chat with pioneering neuroscientist Christof Koch about his mystical experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyXq...

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

HAMLET Yea, from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, . . . #Hamlet_2026 Act I s5 (98-103)

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction is available in these formats: Print Print-on-demand barnesandnoble.com/w/gilbert-so... Paperback lulu.com/shop/daniel-... Ebook (free) books2read.com/sorrentino/ Pdf readexperience.net/wp-content/u... Website sorrentinobook.blogspot.com

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 30/03/2026

At #SXSW2026, Meritorious Investigator Christof Koch explored one of neuroscience’s biggest and most controversial questions. What is consciousness and how do we study it? Watch his full talk, no badge needed, on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/Kq-aZRrZbFY?si=1zeGyYz6xJA…

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

#TheAwakening #KateChopin “She's making it devilishly uncomfortable for me," he went on nervously. "She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women; and-you understand—we meet in the morning at the breakfast table." #TheWriteWomen

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Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

“In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.” (opening line, Wittgenstein’s Mistress)

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#AgainsttheDay #ThomasPynchon “We are light…The soul itself is a memory we carry of having once moved at the speed and density of light. The first step…is learning how to re-acquire that rarefaction…to become once more able to pass where we will, through lantern-horn, through window-glass…”

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Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

“Written words could tell him who he was. […] The only way to be in the world was to write himself there.” (Don DeLillo, Mao II)

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James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Today I am pleased to launch NOISE MACHINE—my bespoke literary marketing and publicity operation for writers and publishers. Offering flexible rates and a variety of services. This is the website: Noisemachine.online

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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Durham, NC tomorrow back at dear old Duke!!

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Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“I barely fit inside myself.” — Clarice Lispector, “Brasília”

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 19/03/2026

Wonderful panel discussion at the film screening of Ex Machina touching on AI, feminism, the Turing test and Mary in the Black and White Room #BPF2026 #philosophymatters

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

And then I heard the door, and it was if she had not been. No, not that; not NOT BEEN, but rather no more IS, since WAS remains always and forever, inexplicable and immune, which is its grief. Faulkner The Town C 20 “Gavin Stevens”

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PDQ Bakhtin @thenovelconscious.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Never been able to recommend this one enough

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

#AgainsttheDay #ThomasPynchon “…a new Puccini opera," she said. "An American betrays a Japanese woman…He ought to die of shame,but does not…Is it that Japanese do die of shame and dishonor but Americans don't?…As if,somehow,your country is…destined to move forward regardless of who is…underfoot?"

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My book, Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction, is now available. You can acquire a free ebook at, among other outlets, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Smashwords, or Kobo, here: books2read.com/sorrentino/ You can also download a .pdf of the book from Wordpress: readexperience.net/wp-content/u...

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Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction by Daniel Green

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