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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Jump cut: the interior of an ancient industrial warehouse just off Grant Boulevard on the West Side of Chicago.The small airless room was bathed in a subterranean fluorescent glow and had a background odor of acetone. #BookSky #Writing #Reading #Stories westoftown.substack.com/p/man-machin...

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MAN MACHINE

Jump cut: the interior of an ancient industrial warehouse just off Grant Boulevard on the West Side of Chicago.

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

J Frank Parnell: One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end. Otto: Lobotomy? Isn't that for loonies? J Frank Parnell: Not at all. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. #FilmSky #RepoMan

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. ― Abbie Hoffman #BookSky #Writing #Reading #TruthToPower

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? --Annie Dillard (RIP) #BookSky #Writing

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Try to recall the person you thought you were and the moment you began to realize you are not that person, and try to grasp and appreciate the high quality of lunacy required for you to have ever thought you were that person. ― Padgett Powell #writing #booksky #novels

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

LAST LIGHT A state road curving off past the white frame church through the cornfields on the outskirts of Ottumwa, Iowa, with sunset waves of light washing across the fields. Read the full scene & subscribe: westoftown.substack.com/p/last-light... #writing #reading #booksky #novels

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? ― Voltaire westoftown.substack.com #BookSky #writing #reading #adventures #fiction #stories

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BOOM TIMES The media trumpeted that the GDP, consumer spending index and import/export numbers were synergistically feeding an upward prosperity spiral that could mean only one thing: robust growth. #BookSky #Writing #Reading westoftown.substack.com/p/boom-times

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BOOM TIMES

The media trumpeted that the GDP, consumer spending index and import/export numbers were synergistically feeding an upward prosperity spiral that could mean only one thing: robust growth.

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. ― Jack Kerouac #BookSky #Beat #Writing

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. ― Philip K. Dick #BookSky #Paranoia #Dystopia

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I sit, I read, I listen to music, I go or a walk, I ride to Prospect Park and sit under the Willow Tree, I remember, I forget, I look at pictures, I do, I do, I do... or I don't, but its peaceful... only me... no worries. ― Hubert Selby Jr. #BookSky #Writing #Reading #Brooklyn

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

LOOKING THROUGH A GLASS ONION After he had traveled thousands of miles and met legions of…unique…characters, his sense of perspective began to erode. Loomis began to suspect that the world was nothing but a huge movie set. Read the full scene and subscribe: westoftown.substack.com/p/looking-th...

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Someday, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments. ― Thomas Pynchon #BookSky

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one. I have spent my life in books; literature has deeply dyed my brain its own colour. ― Nathanael West #BookSky #Writing #Reading #Novels

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated, wrapped around itself in ways that aren't always obvious. --Dr. John #BookSky #MusicSky #NOLA #YeahYouRite

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The rancher who’d just dropped him had told him that this side road was a shortcut to Rock Springs, with “plenty of oil-rigger traffic.” What it turned out to be was an abandoned state road... #BookSky #Writing #Reading Read the full scene and...subscribe westoftown.substack.com/p/nobody-now...

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WEST OF RAWLINS

He’d walked a couple fruitless miles before he realized he’d been a victim of bad information.

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. ― Edward Abbey #BookSky #Writing #Reading #Southwest #Quotes

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. ― Wendell Berry #Poetry #BookSky #Writing

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nelson Algren on Division Street by Art Shay #PhotoSky #Chicago

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Scandals aren't public scandals if you get there before your enemies do. ― Mike Royko on Mayor Richard Daley #BookSky #Reading #Chicago

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