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I will do my best but I cannot in conscience promise to do what i have never learned to do
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@queenofbithynia.bsky.social
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I will do my best but I cannot in conscience promise to do what i have never learned to do
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he wrote many other fine books though none the equal of diana please, I am willing to bet before I read them. this is the opening of The Adventures of the Comte de la Muette During the Reign of Terror for example regarding the revolutionary roommate situation
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“a pair of ruffles at my bare elbows; a black solitaire at my neck, and black shoes with red heels and the prettiest of paste buckles. Alas! how better than our sins of yesterday do we remember the stockings we wore to sin in!”
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“In comparison with the immortality which is surely to be mine, everything on this side is youth. I am seventeen, or thirty-seven, or whatever I choose; and I intend that Heaven, whenever it calls me, shall find me irresistible” I, as well
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mister capes died of influenza in 1918 so you see it isn’t for him I do this. it is for the world
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if you think I won’t take to a second lousy social media platform to promote bernard capes’s wonderful book the extraordinary confessions of diana please, you don’t know me as well as you might, for here I am is it a bad title? sure. but the table of contents promises much & delivers more
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if I am to go on being a hamadryad I must be fed
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“they may take liberties denied to us” no bras in heaven confirmed none for the angels, none for the blessed saints what a comfort that is to know
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what’s the good of being an angel, if one has to
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some of the best titles in methuen’s catalogue of publications for 1906 THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED CHRIS OF ALL SORTS GRIFF OF GRIFFITHSCOURT MRS CURGENVEN OF CURGENVEN and not forgetting THE HUMAN BOY (“With a Frontispiece”)
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if I marry you you have to introduce me this way at parties, it is one of my conditions not the part about the boils and the sacred fountains, I can’t do that. just the long wretchedness
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when you set off your stupid fucking fireworks all day this is who you’re upsetting!!
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one thing you can’t argue with is I got the cat a thing shaped like a pineapple. she takes an interest
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back in my teens/20s I found the books aggravatingly sexist (aggravating bc I thought he demonstrably knew better, which is in retrospect an absolutely classic Me error) but still liked them only luck & my innate need to argue with people, for which I am daily thankful, kept me from real fandom
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like people used to find it sort of spicily charming that a writer of his type had groupies, just like a rock star. they wrote about it in those terms. nobody too young to remember can be blamed for not remembering, but it was like that. it was bad
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I find the “whisper networks” jargon unbearably smarmy and anyway I am not part of any. what I know is based on being old enough to remember way back all those years ago when he was middle-aged. his persona wasn't a shield, it was a lure. the shield was the whole culture
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yes I know he has the aura of a floppyhaired middle aged man in a leather jacket. because he was one. twenty five fuckin years ago he’s been whatever you care to call him for a long long time
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tbc the situation isn’t funny and neither is the guy. and i dare say this person isn’t trying to minimize either. but lord when the references are this glaringly anachronistic it really comes clear that the average internet person is fundamentally unable to imagine anyone over forty
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I don’t believe it was represented as a direct quote. but whoever made or implied this association, reporters or the person reported on, that’s what they meant. like don’t be dumb
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do people not understand that this idea of a ‘condition associated with false memories’ is not an outlandish bit of fringe fancy but a specific derogatory smear based on the imputation of a specific personality disorder. one commonly, questionably, and maliciously associated with young women
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“nothing unsavory ever creeps between the pages” who ASKED lord this kind of declaration makes me nervous “in his seeking after god he finds patty merrill” oops what can she have been doing & what kind of get-up can she have been wearing to make this a plausible identity mistake
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henry james not so good on hobbit customs as on english or italian ones. only to be expected as they are not half so picturesque
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the hannibal television people should have read it & maybe they did
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I did not read it with as much care as I would have liked, being busily engaged in “working” for “money” at the time it found me, but the problem of explaining to hannibal why he oughtn’t to do what he does is that the very obviousness makes it hard to explain
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william gass’s hannibal lecter ethics problem essay is going to be the thing that teaches me once and for all to remember the difference between him & william gaddis I feel so strong & sure about this
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I would get a facelift myself if someone else was paying. maybe I would. maybe half a one. it’s not about that. but mine wouldn’t be haunted
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I must assume nobody is blaming his current struggles on the haunted facelift that turned him into carmody braque because it happened like five years ago. but I have thought of it with shivers & aversion so many times. all the Onion-banked goodwill withered on the vine the day of the scalpel
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some say the fairest thing on the dark earth is a yacht some people love a parade but for me I like a sack of potatoes fresh from the fields —sappho to francis
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the potato girl was too good for you francis picabia
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you can’t imagine how excited I was to see Titus back in whatever year they made it due to alan cumming as whomever the fuck he was & how eager I still am to excuse aspects of it due to matthew rhys as demetrius
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I shouldn’t have liked this because I haven’t read the thing it’s about yet. but I think I know what it’s about, and isn’t that just as good (I have a high regard for both rc & alc as writers but don’t think much of either of them as thinkers on gender. rc’s special subject is the borzoi)
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the skies looked like this on today, the most disgusting day in the history of weather important to remember beauty is always against us. clouds too
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I said Can I see your paws, just to rule you out, it will speed the investigation. but she would not allow it conclusions may be drawn from your refusal I said, but she said Draw away she would not be intimidated but I think she did do it
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I came home to this all the books in the picture that are not in stacks do not live on the floor but in piles on the table. but theodora isn’t allowed on the table, everybody knows that, so it was pretty puzzling how they got there until I found the criminal’s signature one claw at the scene
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henry james….people are going to read this, you know
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cover bergamot’s ears so he can’t hear me but greyish-brownish tabbies are the best kind of cat there is and it isn’t close
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jane bowles summer
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“and why not? they do all the time”
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doesn’t matter what it is she wants, she never will say it. just rolls around about it
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it was The Secret Power she also discovers a lost civilization in one of her airship expeditions but to be honest with you I cannot remember what their deal was aside from being Lost. they thought she was great
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everybody knows the only design for a flying machine is two sofas tied together with palm on either side for flapping, a broom for a tail, and the head of an elk up front for air traffic control, the whole animated by the Powder of Life everybody except marie corelli. and the wright brothers
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cosmic rays make them go. which is radiation but for girls. but not any girls, not vulgar womanly girls with bosoms from the italian peasantry, just chaste sylphlike british blondes from california with money who are not beautiful but somehow better than beautiful to look at. radiation for them.
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also very importantly the airship, I shouldn’t have said dirigible really, is not powered by turgid gasbags as was the Masculine style of the time but by big flappetty wings going flap flap like into a pterodactyl, I forget what color they were. this is the feminine principle
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though it was her last or 3rd from last novel it still had the little slip insert telling critics to fuck Off & that review copies were not being distributed bc nobody could be trusted not to quote out of context to make her, marie, a figure of fun. I respect a woman who can’t write but stays mad
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—rose-silk-upholstered I meant to say— anyway I could never have got through it if I hadn’t already read elizabeth taylor’s ANGEL, greatest book of its century, & been informed by the preface it was based on corelli. even then, knowing that, corelli is better summarized than read. hell of a thing
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read a marie corelli the other month, where this guy invents the atom bomb tries to marry the fairy sprite millionairess who also loves radiation but not murder & is mad abt pierre getting equal billing w/marie curie & hates marriage so invents a silk-upholstered dirigible to fly away from him in—
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I am not a flexible person, especially not physically, but sometimes when I am making an effort to improve theodora will show me up by touching her own toes spitefully ostentatiously & repeatedly as if to say, It’s easy for some well you are not hinging at the hips theodora
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new neighborhood cat!!!
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here’s those photos of telephones circa 1902, real sexy like you asked
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if you pay fifty cents for a complete henry james you can’t get upset when the robot they hired to retype all the texts into the same document gets confused and loses an apostrophe or two, and indeed I do not. sometimes it is a little more than that
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