My favourite word is sanguine

Sydney
Joined June 2017
Its my birthday
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Please don’t try this with Anne Carson lmao
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 vs 1907:
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Please, Swedes, give it to Alexis Wright
Nobel Lit Prize odds... I don't exactly know how they price this market unless there are leaks but it's v exciting to see Murakami and Pynchon so high today... announcement on Thursday 7am EDT
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The only way to read the Wake is to do it out loud with a group of people. Do it line by line and dissect it as a group. I promise you will feel brand new emotions
Realizing (having adored Dubliners and Ulysses) that I've never read any of Finnegan's Wake so I downloaded a PDF and... lol
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okay and now read it out loud :-)
Realizing (having adored Dubliners and Ulysses) that I've never read any of Finnegan's Wake so I downloaded a PDF and... lol
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on p127 of infinite jest, remy marathe refers to the US as "'your walled nation' or 'your murated nation'." murated is a "dictionary-only" word, only ever used in the full OED, which itself has a single reference: another dictionary from 1727. It means "walled."
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i like that part in Summertime Sadness when she says Sizzlin’ Like A Snare
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He wanna fuck Sleater Kinney we should Linklater
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My one year old just told me "Mama, here comes midnight with the dead moon in its jaws." Wow
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Walked into my old workplace and the new guy i never really worked with yelled out DAMN you look tired!
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Quarter life crisis just hit
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The cost of community is inconvenience I say to myself as I go to multiple events every weekend because I’m popular and cool as hell
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i always forget to journal during the best times of my life so instead of having an archive of memories i'd like to carry with me i just have a book full entries like "today sucked shit" and "burned my eggs"
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When a guy has “seen bits and pieces” of Girls it means you would be friends with his ex girlfriend
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Yall fckn lied to me talking about employment is all fun and games and “work wife” dawg I’m a slave in this office
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You better start a-wolking, babe
🚨IVY WOLK once and for all runs her mouth about her “two month long lesbian style enmeshment affair” with “Cameron Winter”from “Geese”and his want of communicating “via letter”, how his words “said nothing like his music” in one breath! #camivyupdates
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