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"Jane Collier, meanwhile, wrote a savage satire — way more biting than anything Henry Fielding ever managed — called The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting. This is just what it sounds like: a handbook on how to abuse anybody you have power over."

"cascade of arrows"

camphor fare
venomramfeezled
swabs, bubbly curfew

a page from a Bible
to roll up this smoke

ICE arrest quotas.

"Cherishable fact that I just learned from a biography of Vaughan Williams: when he was first married, the ceremony was performed by none other than the famous Reverend Spooner.

I wonder if it was followed by a performance of the Sondon Lymphony, or possibly even his opera The Koisoned Piss." --@jonathancoe.bsky.social

"The Civil War was a religious war in addition to a racial, economic, and political one." (via @hollybfletcher.bsky.social)