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New Yorker, Scotsman, editor, writer, legendary heroic outlaw.
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"I have a half-baked, non-scientific theory about writing... It's this: if I read enough, eventually the amount of words I consume will cram my head so full, they will spill out onto the page, like a water-displacement exercise."

@swordsjew.bsky.social on reading and graphomania

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"I have a half-baked, non-scientific theory about writing... It's this: if I read enough, eventually the amount of words I consume will cram my head so full, they will spill out onto the page, like a water-displacement exercise."

@swordsjew.bsky.social on reading and graphomania

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im going to coney island to see the hot dog eating contest

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“The court has returned to its historic conservative role, rushing to aid the political party of property and race privilege in a debased partisan way.”
— Jamie Raskin, writing in 2001

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A look at the first hundred entries on Wikipedia’s “extraordinary”, “mysterious”, “bizarre”, “profoundly odd”, “ever-mutating”, strange and twisted”, “sprawling, mammoth”, “enormous and unwieldy”, “baffling and mercurial”, “baroque and mysterious” list of notable sandwiches.

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“The court has returned to its historic conservative role, rushing to aid the political party of property and race privilege in a debased partisan way.”
— Jamie Raskin, writing in 2001

buttondown.email/theswordandt...

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"America has the feel of the twilight of empire, the frail-boned gerontocrats complemented by the weighty jackboots of a police state. Meanwhile, the super-wealthy oligarchs acquire more and more, and become baroque in their decadence."

— @swordsjew.bsky.social on eating the rich

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"The Pranksters... set off on their epochal cross-country bus trip sixty years ago this week, kickstarting the hippy movement, and leaving a vapor-trail of blown minds and shattered paradigms in their wake."

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"The Pranksters... set off on their epochal cross-country bus trip sixty years ago this week, kickstarting the hippy movement, and leaving a vapor-trail of blown minds and shattered paradigms in their wake."

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"Cold soup is in abundance all around you. It comes in many, varicolored varieties, sweet and spicy and sour. It will be your salvation. Let your bowl be a cool chalice, filled with deliverance from the heat."

@swordsjew.bsky.social on cold soup in hot weather

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"Today, may you be like the hawk of Radbot: flying free, yet with great consequence, your every move like a knife gliding through the wind toward destiny."

@swordsjew.bsky.social on the Habsburgs, and Arnold's favorite sandwich

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O to be a hawk on an escarpment, freed from the wrist of Radbot. O, to feel the wind of Swabia in my feathers, to taste the flesh of prey in my red beak!

Instead I am a lowly scribe of sandwiches.

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"Most of us, at some point in our lives, would be susceptible, if it harmonized with our greater values; if it came at a point where we felt low, and frightened, and individuality felt like more of a burden than a sacred thing to uphold."

— @swordsjew.bsky.social on cults

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"Tell me you’d never join a cult and I’ll tell you you’ve been lucky. That the savviest representative of the most appealing group didn’t reach you on the worst day of your life. In your thirst on your lonesome road, no one offered you water from a poisoned well." buttondown.email/theswordandt...

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"Given the proliferation of the form in the last couple decades, you can find oral histories of all shapes and sizes. In fact, just this week saw oral histories of the D-Day Invasion, 10-Cent Beer Night, and the movie Gremlins. There may be even more by the time you read this." On oral histories

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