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You know, a 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 à la Moll Flanders with select scenes from Epstein Island & Mar-a-lago would burn up the screen--but it'd have to be rated X.

"in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom" —@mobydicktsea.bsky.social

Dedication.

      "Panlykonium & Not"

brown leaves fell · it is winter now
   winter, Melania
with winter's dreams & winter's despairs
   & death, Melania
do you ever think about death · my name
   on the side of a building
& me not there · on Fifth Avenue
   standing there smiling
with the smoking gun · clenched in my hand
   & no more tears, Melania

Big sunspot AR4366 is about to disappear over the sun's western limb.