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"The Joycean Irish linguistic pungency protrudes through Firbank’s mental Frenchness."

fiendship
across icy banks
decant dint darkness

addicted · thin trickle
the bass fiddle · bad news

pillbug
necropsy · line
of the fude smoothly

crosses serrated lips
of glass

glare thumbed back · glom onto
gleeful clue on cliff walk
labyrinthine robot

rearing monkey's mirror
to be wit's wick lackmeet

" ‘I think nothing,’ he wrote, ‘of filing 50 pages down to make a brief, crisp paragraph, or even a row of dots.’ "

"Somebody asked what the Old English word for a librarian was. Unfortunately no record of it survives, BUT Old English did have bōchord ‘book-hoard’ as a word for library, so can invent *bōcweard ‘book guardian’ by analogy. The same word, bókavörður, actually exists in Icelandic!" --@wylfcen

"Dreamt last night that there was a pub in Camden Town with a graveyard at the rear where all the hardened drinkers and romantic death-wish patrons could be buried."