Señor Hijas

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Nonlinear. Discontinuous. Collage-like. An assemblage.

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Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret. I know you ignored the Holocaust but can we talk about my period?

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become. Said Mary McGrory. ~ THE LAST NOVEL, David Markson #booksky

Chloroform in print. Mark Twain called the Book of Mormon. ~ THE LAST NOVEL, David Markson #booksky

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Mr. Rogers meets Captain Kangaroo. The Captain (aka Bob Keeshan) was BOTD in 1927.

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Portrait of Patience Escalier, 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14373

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Young Breton Woman, 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12596

If the Republicans would stop telling lies about the Democrats, we would stop telling the truth about them. Adlai Stevenson said. ~ THE LAST NOVEL, David Markson #booksky

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Kumonosu-jo (1957) (Throne of Blood) Kurosawa transposes Macbeth to feudal Japan, starring Toshiro Mifune. Highly stylized in the best way (obviously influenced by Noh drama), with bleak visuals shot on the slopes of Mt Fuji. Oft cited as the best of all on-screen Shakespeare adaptations. #Filmsky

Stories happen only to people who know how to tell them. Said Thucydides. ~ THE LAST NOVEL, David Markson #booksky

The Republicans are as wicked as they are stupid, which is saying a great deal. Said Bertrand Russell after a visit. ~ VANISHING POINT, David Markson #booksky

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn’t make it worse. Said Brendan Behan. ~ VANISHING POINT, David Markson #booksky

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This AP tweet is an instant candidate for the Museum of American Fascism. Carve it in stone and put it over the entrance. It should be an enduring source of burning shame and embarrassment for the entire organization, as well as a warning to other media

Tardily realizing—qualms after all. Author would undeniably be distressed at the loss of Schnabel’s portrait of William Gaddis. ~ VANISHING POINT, David Markson #booksky

If on a winter’s night with no other source of warmth Author were to burn a Julian Schnabel, qualms Qualmless. ~ VANISHING POINT, David Markson #booksky

The United States Constitution was formally declared to be in effect in March of 1789. At a celebration in Philadelphia, provision was made for tables serving kosher food. ~ VANISHING POINT, David Markson #booksky

Have the people who conclude that Shakespeare’s plays were written by the Earl of Oxford ever read the poetry Oxford actually did write? ~ VANISHING POINT, David Markson #booksky

Much too early I came to many places, or too late: the beer was not yet ready, or was already drunk. Says Odin, in the Elder Edda. ~ VANISHING POINT, David Markson #booksky

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Willem de Kooning, A Tree in Naples, 1960 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135709

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one of my deep seated beliefs is that elephants are one of the other high level intelligences on this planet and that if there is a judgment day humanity will be held to account for our crimes against them www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

Elephants call each other by name, study findswww.theguardian.com Researchers used artificial intelligence algorithm to analyse calls by two herds of African savanna elephants in Kenya

An uninteresting, and one may almost say, a justly exterminated race. The New York Times called the American Indian, in an 1855 review of Hiawatha. ~ VANISHING POINT, David Markson #booksky

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"When you start doing that thing you do with your arms. I have to say it looks less like the professor, Neil Peart, at the drum kit and more like a drowning octopus." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha...

That Thing You Do While You’re Listening to Rush? It’s Not Actually Drummingwww.mcsweeneys.net Hey man, we’ve been friends for a long time. I just want to say, I admire your passion. I really do. Nobody understands the need to really let loos...

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How many things there are in this world that I do not want. Said Socrates, strolling through a marketplace in Athens. ~ VANISHING POINT, David Markson #booksky

At thirty-seven, in Key West, Ernest Hemingway badly marked up Wallace Stevens’ face in a never fully explained fistfight. Stevens was fifty-seven when it happened. ~ VANISHING POINT, David Markson #booksky

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Green Wheat Fields, 1890 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14780

Or was it possibly nothing more than a fundamentally recognizable genre all the while, no matter what Writer averred? Nothing more or less than a read? Simply an unconventional, generally melancholy though sometimes even playful now-ending read? About an old man’s preoccupations. #booksky