Kirkdale Bookshop
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indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966 | new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts | Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Ite domum saturae, venit Hesperus, ite capellae.
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paulduane.bsky.social
Aleister Crowley's 150th birthday today and I haven't even started putting up the inverted goat skulls yet
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grantmcgaheran.bsky.social
'I made no special mention of Romania. I was no longer anxious to interpret its strangeness for myself or for others. I believed that I, like everyone about me, was an exile from a stranger place still - the country that allowed us all to think ourselves exiles from a stranger place still.'
Gerald Murnane
Collected Short Fiction
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there are 2 dogs in here chillin to Deepak Khazanchi
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On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.
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no fears for steady men
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there's a guy in the corner talking about disjoint subsets. good times
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
there's a guy in the corner talking about disjoint subsets. good times
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Excellently threatening energy from Deborah Findlay’s entry to the Puffin Post’s Concrete Poetry Competition.
A superb, subtle, sarcastic little poetic diss to the moon
Detail from a page from puffin post magazine black text on white reads, Deborah finally 13, the moon above a black outline of a crescent moon inside which is a poem that reads “poor moon, will you really shine so well when men step upon you and break your spell” under which italicised text reads a black and white copy of a charming painting by Deborah Findlay
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
all roads lead to Teignmouth Electron
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
somebody in here is wearing a T shirt of Blake's Ancient of Dayz
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She was also excellent in "Home", an adaptation of a J G Ballard story (starring Antony Sher)—something I probably shouldn't have watched four times during lockdown
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newishpuritan.bsky.social
This is stunning!
regretteruane.bsky.social
Excellently threatening energy from Deborah Findlay’s entry to the Puffin Post’s Concrete Poetry Competition.
A superb, subtle, sarcastic little poetic diss to the moon
Detail from a page from puffin post magazine black text on white reads, Deborah finally 13, the moon above a black outline of a crescent moon inside which is a poem that reads “poor moon, will you really shine so well when men step upon you and break your spell” under which italicised text reads a black and white copy of a charming painting by Deborah Findlay
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
Squall, whale, and harpoon had all blended together; and the whale, merely grazed by the iron, escaped.
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
to the point where I'm going to a Faber thing on (when else) 18th November, in the hope of meeting some weirdoes
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Can't beat the old Calculation of Volume chat