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Zone VI

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Zvi. Writer from Toronto. Often online.

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There’s a few living laureates including Gary Snyder. Ursula LE Guin was alive when they started on her. There’s one Delany novel already in the American SF series (Nova).

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Heinlein, god bless him, lacks the literary merit that LoA goes for. Plus they’ve already put one of his novels (Double Star) in the American SF series. I think a volume is far more likely to be one of the stars of the American new wave like Disch or Delany (since they’ve done Le Guin and Russ).

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Get outta my light cone

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Took me a second. Genius.

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Will seek those out. You are great!

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Not quite the question but I just finished Malarkoi by Alex Pheby. I loved both it and Mordew. 1. Have you read them? 2. Do you think there’s anything comparable or are they sui generis?

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Oh right the Simpsons

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Who did Amendment to be?

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This is also how technical writing works except the ancient paper is a white paper necessary to rewrite the docs and typing it in again would make your head asplode.

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Sorry to miss you but I’m at the cottage this week! Yay for Toronto

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Dadaism and its nihilism comes directly from the experience of millions slaughtered in the Great War, and the mechanical means to do so. Also v political: “Dadaist artists … maintained political affinities with radical politics on the left-wing and far-left politics.”

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I’m very fond of that one, probably my favorite Chandler. Terry Lennox/Marlowe…

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The enemies of libraries will not see heaven.

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Go into your photo roll or whatever and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud.

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Dirty a band name up. I’ll go first: Septic System of a Down

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Wow I’m a Crowley fan and never heard of this one. Thanks!!

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Social media break for at least a week. Dm me if you like.

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Thoroughly enjoying one of my favourites, Mr David Tennant, being extremely relaxed about saying things which are true.

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glad day fighting for its life, the revue under threat, science centre closed, no access to ontario place, impossible to go east-west in downtown toronto in a normal amount of time. well at least it’s also wildly unaffordable to live here 👍

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Not sure whether to be pleased or horrified that it’s also my birthday.

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Several of George Saunders’ stories deal with this and GEE it ALWAYS turns out badly

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Prepping for the kids birthday and I idly made a remark that I wished we were Jehovah’s Witnesses bc they don’t celebrate birthdays. Then a pair of JWs showed up this morning at my door. (We almost never get solicitors.) Dear God: I was Just Joking.

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[kikis a bouba] This bouba is so semiotic.

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Of the plums thou didst buy to break thy fast And laid in ice until the morrow I presently have made repast, I must confess with sorrow. I beg of thee thy wrath to stay; Forgive me for my boldness. Good were they, and sweet were they, And stung my teeth with coldness.

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MYTH: Summertime, and the livin's easy FACT: The living is never easy and especially not in summertime

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File this under “not sure why I did this.”

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Yeah hard same. Sign and attitude.

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That is the most clever Nancy I’ve ever seen. Bravo EB

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I truly hate it. The martians are disgusting & horrifying and the whole film is gross. De guspidus…

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clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here i am, graduating from clown college. this is the happiest day of my life

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Usenet (occasional in person meetups), MUD, livejournal, private site, slack, forums, facebook, twitter, Bluesky, among others

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That one is practically Dadaist

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Gyring and gimbaling in the frumious wabe The mome raths cannot see the borogoves; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The jabberwock is loosed upon the earth. The jaws that bite and claws that catch have come And uffish idleness is our reply.

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Ugh I’m so sorry. As a Canadian this makes me so sad. Lit people are so ignorant of genre

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Have there been attempts to mitigate with, say, distributed solar and wind generation?

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While I appreciate what its capacities are and the engineering feats involved, “Starliner” is right out of 1930s-40s science fiction pulps.

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Seasons in the sun, a horrible maudlin song with obnoxious vocals, and a terrible earworm

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My career in technical writing thanks you.

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