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Joined April 2019
Replying to @becimay
Sounds thin to me. I much prefer Nabokov on inspiration:
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So Bob wrote it for Babs to sing it to…Elizabeth Taylor?
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Replying to @becimay @Percyhubby
Some resemblance. Maybe Rabelais’ preface is what I’m thinking of? But to Cervantes’ last point (somewhat), has anyone argued for moving ALL scholarly introductions (including translators’) to the back matter, so readers hear the author’s voice first?
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Replying to @LiteraryExerci1
But my understanding is that Winkler leans to Oxfordianism? youtu.be/4kN09LfI2NQ?si=ePQB…
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Replying to @harryhew
Emmylou Harris managed alright. youtu.be/Tc2NpNqDgPE?si=-xR3…
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Any account of JFK’s assassination that leaves out Lee Harvey Oswald’s mistress, @Judyth Vary Baker, is woefully incomplete. youtu.be/cmN8edtXMg4?si=GBcu…
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Replying to @nakedfoul
Yes, they did get close…to 5 or more consecutive great albums.
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