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"...we’ve had a nice, long period of American literary culture as the dominant literary culture of the world. It might just be time for other national literatures to become the epicentres of literary value."

      "bungee cord"

buzz not lost for boasting
      the high fire
debacle perne lockstep
   afar haggard
game of lids illumined
      trick gravel
deluscious thirst flushing
   the grue sprig turned

Good Chance of Making It.

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Empty-handed.

Theory is making a game that is like the problem—& then thinking that to win the game is to solve the problem. Well, maybe for especially gamelike problems...

"...the survivor of the revelations came to think of some of his writing before 1974 as prophetic—not as fiction, but as nonfiction accounts of things that Saul himself did not understand."

"life of the boxcar"

Moloch frolicking
whiplash pale cerulean
the cough made of cadmium
catches hares the snares miss

eater of books axis
erstwhile knell but spellcheck
we will learn bling longhand
along with snide bridle

Natsukashii.

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Notes from a Skerry.

gibbous moon high
assassin of koans

Cerberus overshares

"It fits what Grothendieck characterized as effectively 'mansion maintenance' rather than mansion-conceptualization."

“By the way, Melville reads Old Books. He has borrowed Sir Thomas Browne of me and says finely of the speculations of the Religio Medici that Browne is a kind of 'crack'd Archangel.' Was ever anything of this sort said before by a sailor? - Evert Duyckinck to his brother George.

Upon his return from adventures at sea, Evert Duyckinck had given Melville the freedom of his 16,000 volume library."

—@gregorykindall

Umwelt.

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"Levent Alpöge, a mathematician at the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, casually announced that he had found a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous and long-standing problem in algebraic geometry."

"If an AI proof works for the Riemann Hypothesis and particularly for the Goldbach’s Conjecture, I will lose a piece of my humanity forever." —@avmarraccini via

"Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings." (thread)

"lizard drizzle"

old atrophied riddles
roost stipulate gulag
the unwilling guests
gather at the mainspring
pills, pint interventions
fiery slide begins
banana peel
calling things by the wrong name

I used to be one of those people who corrected the misquotations & misattributions of online others. No one ever thanked me.