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Kendrick and Sza with the kids.

We are $3,000~ away from being able to completely replace the NEA grant funding that was taken away from Deep Vellum and Open Letter Books! Help us reach our goal today. Link in the second post:

Started with Knausgård, then Fosse, so I guess now it’s time for some Ørstavik.

Last of the Alex McKnight novels. A bit darker than the previous ten novels.

Digging back into some Xenophon. Love Loeb.

121st Day of 47’ᛋ term (1339 days left): May 21 - Book II: Company of Trees - P155 “in fact, for a mentality fulla fantasy - … - the powerful impression left by such a panorama, became the unconscious, >cryptomnetic, basis for far-ranging fictions, indeed for entire books.”

122nd Day of 47’ᛋ term (1338 days left): May 22 - Book II: Company of Trees - P156 Dän shows, using a couple quotes, one from Jules Verne’s >Voyage au Centre de la Terre< (1864), how certain scenes in novels from the 19th century were (sub?) consciously inspired by panoramas.

Man, this site might actually be neurally connected to a certain tech billionaire’s Adderall-addled brain. It feels glitchy. Like the code took too much Ketamine, got banged around a bit, and hasn’t slept in days. The X head is now eating the Twitter tail.

May reads. Favorites? Bell’s In the House Upon.., Evenson’s Altmann’s Tongue, Fresán’s Melvill, Kohlhaas’ Heinrich von Kleist, Rilke’s Dark Interval, Ørstavik’s Love, Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress, le Carré’s Letters, Xenophon’s Memorabilia, & Dan McClellan’s The Bible Says So.

Tucson Museum of Art with the family.

Starting June with some Ellroy, or as the AJC once called him: “A blood poet who writes as chain saws crank…”

“Vessel with Ritual Enema Scene Ceremonial purge: The physical as spiritual and ceremonial. Scene depicts a ceremonial enema administered by a female knowledge keeper. The physical is spiritual and the material is ceremonial.” Make Ceremonial Enemas Great Again. #MCEGA

A few years ago (2018?) I went on a push and read all of Fleming bond novels. I bought this too, but never read it. I guess I’ll see how I like Ian’s nonfiction.

Today’s read.

Starting a 9 book series feels a bit like realizing you may have just joined a cult.