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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 18h

At a flea market a little outside Bennington, VT I came across a rubbermaid filled with financial records handwritten by Edward Dickinson, father of Emily Dickinson

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 21h

“The survival of masterpieces is due to our astonishment that certain minds can occasionally report life without adulterating the report with the gratifying movements of their own self-assertion, their private quarrel with what it has been to be a human being”

Gertrude Stein. What are Masterpieces?

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 1d

On help

Norman Maclean. A River Runs Through It. 1976.

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 1d

yes. the chums' flight to the sea 🤞

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 1d

interesting. I always saw it as Rushdie getting his wires crossed, hearing there's a novel about the mason/dixon line and interpreting it as about the Civil War. However, it would be great if true.

Gotta be one of the longest-running rumors in the history of American lit

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 1d

Has there been any other hints of a civil war novel besides the aside in Rushdie’s Vineland review?

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 2d

Will do, thanks

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 2d

I never snapped during covid but I did one weekend get very interested in a twitter thread about the hexagonal cloud pattern on Saturn

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 3d

Vermont

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 5d

Against the Day? More like Against the Reader with all these dang plots! Just kidding but really the book does kinda lose itself when it leaves america for europe just my two cents

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 6d

Found a good one

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 6d

I wish every writer got a nobel prize

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 7d

“"One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, 'Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job," said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. ‘Everybody chants that.’”

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 8d

Turning on the oven light to speed up the roast chicken

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 8d

“the role of the tree for decades
taken by a bonsai, voices
rising from tennis courts —
Fields. Smell of the tall grass, new cut.
As one expects of a lyric poet.
We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.”

Louise Glück. Nostos. 1996.

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 8d

“those onetime honkytonk cities of the plain”

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 10d

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 10d

The rethuglicans ruined my trip to John Adams’ house with their government shut down

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 10d

⬆️ Thomas Pynchon. Against the Day. 2006.

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 10d

“the dark promise revealed to Americans during the Civil War, obeying since then its own terrible inertia, as the Republican victors kept after Plains Indians, strikers, Red immigrants, any who were not likely docile material for the mills of of the newly empowered order.”

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 11d

A better world is possible

immacule.bsky.social @immacule.bsky.social · 12d

Pope Leo XIV with Young Palestinians from the Youth of Jesus’ Homeland in Palestine.

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 11d

as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 11d

Driving my father-in-law’s truck listening to Dylan’s Modern Times. recommend.

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 12d

Never considered the idea of multiple golden ages. Real puts the actual, historical and singular golden age to shame

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 12d

Roth producing his own Library of America editions and not using the Gun Larson caligraphy? The Nobel Committee had its reasons