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SHAPE HELL

Yup.

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newbie asked if we're supposed to look out for 'red flags' in interlibrary loan requests in reference to a request a patron had made for a book about cannibalism. she was looking expectantly at me like she was expecting me to be equally aghast at this........girl why would you work at a library if you want to play book police

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1925 c. Sofa by Pierre Chareou. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

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I love the idea of a roomba topography map being the jumping on point for a liminal horror story. House of Leaves II: Roomba.

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i’d be the guy voting for judith butler pope on day one even tho he literally just showed up

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English spelling isn't that hard to understand as long as you also understand French orthography, Dutch orthography, the Great Vowel Shift, the Latin language, the history of the printing press, and the etymology of every word introduced to English in the last 600 years

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December 17, 1974.

The film critic from the Patterson, New Jersey News trashed Young Frankenstein.

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can’t have seasonal affective disorder if i say that winter isn’t real it was just invented by Big Vivaldi to sell all four of his seasons

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If you like 1/ urban fantasy, 2/ gay romance, 3/ romcoms but the com stands for communist, and 4/ books that are cheap, you should check out my books at the Smashwords sale. 75% off for the rest of the year.

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"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.

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'a mother + daughter, newport wales, photo martin parr, 1988' in hair: fashion + fantasy - laurent philippon (2013)

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An incomplete taxonomy of esoteric texts:

This text is discussing esoteric subject matter

This text is being deliberately obscure because its author knows they don't have a coherent thesis and they're blowing smoke

This text is written in earnest, but its author has very poor communication skills

This text's translator has misunderstood something that was meant completely literally as a complex metaphor

This text is actually perfectly straightforward in its native language, but every available translation fucking sucks

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al pacino photographed by steve wood, london, 1974.

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when it comes down to it everything is about ghosts except ghosts, which are about love