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Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction | Catherine Belsey

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Varied between the incomprehensible, banal, and unconvincing. Just didn't work as a humorous introduction to life on other planets.

IriDas My vague recollections of my two university philosophy courses caused me to chuckle at your review. 1mo

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rwmg

Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction | Catherine Belsey

#coffeeandabook

kspenmoll The best combo! 1mo

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lil1inblue

Stupidity | Avital Ronell

Dear Canadians,
I'm sorry our U.S. representatives are complete a$$hats. We don't all agree with them. I can't even imagine how bad the smoke is for y'all. But your response to this nonsense is freaking epic.
Love, lil1inblue

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/premier-us-republicans-wildfire-smoke-ti...
#ranttime #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub

Bookwormjillk This is funny. Sorry about your fires though Canada. 2mo

KadaGul So Canada 🇨🇦 is facing its Commercial Exhaust fans towards the USA 🇺🇸 so it doesn't have to deal with WILDFIRE 😤🤬😡😠😤🤬. It's natural wildfire 🔥🚒 when Californian wildfires harm bordering Canadian 🇨🇦 cities, no one raises a concern 🤨.#AnotherDumbIdeaByMango (edited) 2mo

lil1inblue @Bookwormjillk My favorite part: "These are attention-seekers who can't come up with a good idea on health care or on making life more affordable," Kinew told The Canadian Press. "So they're playing games with something that's very serious." 2mo

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lil1inblue @KadaGul 🎯🎯🎯 In a different article I read, it was pointed out that smoke goes both ways across the border. This administration is so exhausting. 2mo

TheBookHippie Oy. 2mo

LiseWorks Hey Canada has been blamed for a lot of things over the years. Even snow is blamed on Canada. Do they actually want us to kind of have a glass wall or something to king the smoke on our side? 😆 🤣 2mo

Eggbeater It's ironic, republicans being concerned about the environment. I am sorry, Canada. 2mo

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie My "rep" can't show up in his district unless it's a fundraiser, but he can harass Canada? To refer back to my three lis thursday honorable mention: "Fuck wank bugger shitting arse head in hole." 2mo

lil1inblue @LiseWorks What was that thing the #fluorescentfascist wanted to do to stop the hurricanes? Maybe that will work on the smoke. 🤣🤣🤣 (Also, thanks for the snow. I enjoy it. 😉) 2mo

lil1inblue @Eggbeater How do the people who support them not see the inconsistency? I will never understand. 🤔 2mo

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue honest to god these people 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 2mo

willaful I love Vonnegut's description of the Totalitarian mind as like gears with missing teeth: “The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten-year-olds, in most cases.

The willful filing off of gear teeth, the willful doing without certain obvious pieces of information... That is the closest I can come to explaining the legions, the nations of lunatics I‘ve seen in my time.“

Mother Night: A Novel

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Suet624 This regime and their republican followers are e.x.h.a.u.s.t.i.n.g. 2mo

AnnCrystal 🇨🇦🇺🇲🥺🙏🏼💝. 2mo

TheLudicReader Wab Kinew is the BEST! (He‘s an author, too.)

Walking in Two Worlds

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lil1inblue @willaful What an excellent quotation. Thank you. It's going in my journal. 🙌 2mo

lil1inblue @Suet624 I'm so tired! 2mo

lil1inblue @TheLudicReader Thank you! I didn't know he was an author. Immediately adding him to the tbr! 👏 👏 👏 2mo

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Poetry: The Basics | Jeffrey Wainwright

repost for @TheSpineView:

Here are the May prompts for #PoetryMatters
To play post a poem, quote, song, etc that you feel matches the prompt. Don't forget to tag me in your post.

TheSpineView Thanks! 6mo

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SanjanaGhosh

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories | Christopher Booker

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I‘ve never really given a thought about how all the books we read follow similar archetypes; precisely 7 as per this book.

dabbe One of the best books I've ever read. I'll even go further and say that all 7 can be whittle down to 1: the hero's quest. I think Joseph Campbell would agree with me. 😍 #theherowithathousandfaces 6mo

SanjanaGhosh You‘re right, I guess every story involves some sort of quest, even if it‘s just an emotional one! 6mo

MariaW Gosh, I have had this one on my shelf for forever. I thought the topic is quite interesting, started it already at least a dozen times, but never found the right time to calm down properly and carefully read it. I definitely have to try again. 💪💪💪 6mo

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annamatopoetry

Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America" | Allen J. Frantzen

so-so

Oh boy. It ends in a "meh" despite the subject being extremely interesting, mostly b/c the intro and chapter 1 weren't quite on topic; Frantzen is in literature, not history, so for him the narrative is important enough to spend a chapter on 19th c opera. That said, the bits about Anglo-Saxon England and how later texts reflected it? Awesome.
Photo from Friday; today was so rainy I had to finish the book at the gym after the coffee shop closed.

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annamatopoetry

Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America" | Allen J. Frantzen

"unlike me, an intellectual, those stupid basic Kushner fans don't notice the true depth of Angels."

Maybe I'm being uncharitable, but nothing in Frantzen's style of writing so far, 95% through the book, leads me to any other way of interpreting that quote.

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annamatopoetry

Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America" | Allen J. Frantzen

Why why why was a typeface where the eth, the wynn, and the thorn are all so ugly and mismatched chosen for a book full of quotes in Old English?

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dabbe

The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice | Willis Barnstone

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#watch

TheSpineView ❤️❤️❤️ 6mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 🩵💙🩵 6mo

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 6mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩵💙🩵 6mo

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Hooked_on_books

Genre | John Frow

I found this cool little map on Mental Floss. The article didn‘t add anything, so I didn‘t bother to post the link. I‘m surprised by the popularity of poetry! And my mom and aunt definitely contribute to mystery being the most popular in California! 😆

BarbaraJean It's SO interesting to see poetry show up more often than mystery!! I'd have thought mystery would be more widespread as a popular genre. 7mo

Hooked_on_books @BarbaraJean Right?!? That really surprised me, too. Especially since I‘ve heard a million times that poetry doesn‘t sell and I know mystery sells well. So surprising! 7mo

sarahbarnes I‘m slightly disappointed that Colorado came in as a romance state…. 7mo

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Kristy_K @BarbaraJean Agreed! I honestly thought mystery would be more prevalent. It seems a lot of the famous authors are in this genre. 7mo

Laughterhp How did they gather this data? I have a hard time believing all of New England is reading poetry… 7mo

Hooked_on_books @Laughterhp They collected Google Trends data of what people were searching for (and filtered out tv/movie searches). So, it may not be what people are actually reading, but it‘s what they‘re showing interest in. 7mo

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