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"This is the same United States that, in 1939, turned away the MS St Louis..."

bug auction · as the owllight falls
across years · yammering still
our own shows · shatter glumly
vans out front · invent crimes

"In harmonic analysis, you can actually prove that if you drop your stones in the right place in the pond, you can get any shape that you want>" (via @mjohnharrison.bsky.social)

"CHIEF: I’ll need your badge and your service weapon.
ME: [puts a badge and a Quiznos Turkey Ranch Swiss on the desk]
CHIEF: Both of ‘em.
ME: [hesitates then bends over and unstraps a McRib from my ankle]" —@samthielman.com

"What will be remembered, whether or not V. remains elusive, is Pynchon’s remarkable ability — which includes a vigorous and imaginative style, a robust humor, a tremendous reservoir of information ... and, above all, a sense of how to use and balance these talents." (via @tompynchon.bsky.social)