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Quoth the Raymond

@raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social

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Poet-y: The Cataracts, Special Powers and Abilities, Saltwater Empire, Murder. I have big Captain Nemo feelings.

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 8h

Too few!

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 8h

I have not but upon looking it up it seems like the kind of thing I would enjoy arguing with! Thank you for mentioning it!

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 13h

Standardization of printing conventions (binding, cut size, length, stock) grievously erodes literary imagination

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 5d

When I put on boots this morning I nearly wept with relief

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 6d

Have any of you ever been completely ghosted by your own publisher and if so how did you cope

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 10d

A perfect, merciless poem.

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 13d

I just got a message that chicken tenders are now called chicken TOUGHS and that I’m not man enough to eat one

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 13d

Terrifying but stupid but appalling but embarrassing but alarming but absurd

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 15d

Now that I have outlived Emily Dickinson it’s time to live like Emily Dickinson

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 20d

Acquiescence to being interviewed by Chotiner proves that Thanatos is real

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 26d

If I do not speak to you it may be because I listened to you

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27d

Oh no. Matt, I’m so sorry.

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 28d

No less intelligible than my other statements

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 28d

Apologizing to random songbirds for the sin of human persons

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Sep 1

Not for too much longer

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

Start of the semester is always busy but it would be easier if I didn’t have to turn off all the AI features my institution has stuffed, unbidden, into every aspect of my work life

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks, Caroline! And I hope it’s much improved since last you saw it!

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 20

😭

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 20

It’s a very low priority but if I could find a publisher for this weird book that would be super neat, send vibes pls

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 15

I will neaten, straighten, and re-alphabetize, all unbidden. I cannot help myself.

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 13

When moral obligation requires ethical compromise

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 12

Dhalgren. It had a regular ol’ science fiction cover! What could go wrong!

Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · Aug 11

Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.

Flowers in the Attic.
Also, a lot of others.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Aug 11

Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.

I'll start: John Gardner's Grendel.

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 10

“Too much” was so, so long ago

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 7

I was never tempted to be a public intellectual because I could not resist the lure of being a private weirdo

Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · Aug 7

I can think of only one person who ought be in charge and I’m addressing her right now

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