January 12, 2015
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Computus compilation, Lorsch 9th century
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1449, fol. 118v
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January 12, 2015
2,698 notes
February 26, 2014
‘Tea’ by Michael Hurley
“I like six cups not one or two.” Thanks to @ghostcapital for introducing me to this on his amazing mix http://bit.ly/1hzm7EO
Literary Critic
I can’t stand books about people who don’t pay rent –
you know what I mean?
Those books where people just carry on
and never once do they pay on a mortgage or pay rent –
you know what I mean?
Then there’s the books where people don’t eat.
Movies, too.
They have this earnest or dramatic of some such
conversation over dinner which furthers the plot line
but they don’t eat.
You know what I mean?
How about books where people travel
and we’re not told how they carry their luggage?
I hate them.
I can’t follow the story
because I’m too busy trying to find out:
did they have one suitcase only?
If so, how could they pack everything in one suitcase?
If they have two or three suitcases,
how did they carry them?
Did they get a porter?
If so, how much did they pay him
and in what kind of currency?
You know what I mean?
But the worst are the books where people don’t pay rent.
You know what I mean.
December, 1984
© 2009, Helen Potrebenko. First printed in Walking Slow, Lazara Press, 1985 and translated into Dutch for Ik Heb Tien Benen, 1990
December 31, 2013
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from La Petite Famille by John Alcorn, written by Sesyle Joslin, 1964, via the Animalarium.
Discovered the amazing John Alcorn via this book.
November 9, 2013
39 notes
Time Reading Program edition of Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori.
Forget collecting Penguins, I’m going to start collecting Time Reading Program books.
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