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Robert Alor @robertalor.bsky.social · 2d

László Krasznahorkai: “An Angel Passed Above Us”

A short story by László Krasznahorkai: “I’m open to anything, he said, pushing the AK-74 a bit farther away and reaching under his bulletproof vest to…

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Robert Alor @robertalor.bsky.social · 2d

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László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story

Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.

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Robert Alor @robertalor.bsky.social · 3d

Buda

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 5d

An evergreen for this day - youtube.com/watch?v=I1Pf...

Samuel Beckett | Interview for Swedish Television (1969) Nobel prize

YouTube video by ESKENION

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Robert Alor @robertalor.bsky.social · 5d

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First reactions | László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 | Telephone interview

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 5d

László Krasznahorkai

“Only the people played a role in the existence of God…not God.”
L.K. at the London Review of Books bookshop, 2020.

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Robert Alor @robertalor.bsky.social · 5d

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Krasznahorkai László kapta az irodalmi Nobel-díjat | 24.hu

Kertész Imre után több mint két évtizeddel ismét magyar író nyerte el a világ legrangosabb irodalmi díját.

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Robert Alor @robertalor.bsky.social · 5d

Buda

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SanMarcos 🍒🚤⚓ Meme thief @sanmarcos.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall's last interview. A good way to spend 19 minutes.

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JANE GOODALL'S LAST INTERVIEW Recorded on 9/23/25

YouTube video by dreamlion

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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 18d

Had never occurred to me that all these French town names are in fact plurals (as are many Romanian town names..)
- Rickard, History of the French Language, p. 5

"Remis, the home of the tribe known to the Romans as the Remi,
gives rise to Reims (Rheims). This explains in many cases the -s
ending of modern French towns, for example Angers, Limoges,
Nantes, Poitiers, Sens, Tours and Troyes. Paris takes its name from
the Parisii" (Rickard, History of French, p. 5)

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eh @hendov.bsky.social · Jul 26

Trees in electric light, Jajce 1903, by Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 19d

I consider myself fairly well read when it comes to 20th-c. anglophone poetry. Seldom do I stumble upon completely forgotten poets who were both consistently masterful in their craft and truly original in tone. Not in one or two poems—consistently. Broomell is one such poet.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 21d

"A daily walk, the simple act of collecting leaves, or sitting quietly in a park can be deeply restorative. These experiences remind us that change is part of life’s cycle, and that beauty exists in every stage of transformation."

Vincent van Gogh, Avenue of Poplars in Autumn, 1884

Painting of an alley with poplars with yellow leaves in the golden, warm evening sun. At the end of the alley a house. Walking towards us a female figure.

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Robert Alor @robertalor.bsky.social · 23d

Does Uggi have skin allergies?

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Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 26d

First Hummingbird Hawk moth I've seen this year. They really are extraordinary little insects that look so much like a hummingbird. This one is feeding on hardy plumbago flowers growing outside the house. Those lovely orange underwings! Beautiful 💙 🤎

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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 25d

Marian Anderson (b. 1897 in Philadelphia) was a singer & international diplomat of democracy who inspired admirers worldwide. She is depicted here in a 1965 portrait by Harlem Renaissance modernist & abstract expressionist painter, Beauford Delaney (b. 1901 in Knoxville).

Very yellow painting of a woman gazing at the viewer, her hands are clasped.

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · Apr 27

Behrens’s 1981 Art and Camouflage: Concealment and Deception in Nature, Art and War is a tiny overlooked thing of interest, with a preface by Guy Davenport. Behrens’s portrait of Davenport (c. 1978), too.

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · Sep 13

“A cultural history omitting the machinations of Eros lacks a natural strategy.”

Being a swell aphoristic remark made by Guy Davenport in the afterword to Elizabeth Hutton Turner’s _Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder_ (Counterpoint, 1996).

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Joan Hunter Dunn @velfille.bsky.social · Sep 11

Mirabelles straight from the tree.

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · Sep 6

A little piece on another Hollywood émigré—a man who went from helping Osip Mandelstam to getting knocked about by the Three Stooges. And if you want to know what Mr. Peanut has to do with it, you’ll have to read to the end: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...

From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey

This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man. My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now has a c…

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Robert Alor @robertalor.bsky.social · Sep 4

You're very welcome

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Robert Alor @robertalor.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wes Robinson (Wes Robinson Design)

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · Sep 4

I went to Malmesbury, found the tomb of Athelstan, first king of England and pioneer of hot air ballooning. Please give this a listen - only 6 mins. (also on other all platforms - search ‘these weird isles’)

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Malmesbury

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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · Aug 25

Dr. Dorothy Irene Height (b. 1912) was one of the “most celebrated figures & tireless freedom fighters in American history.” A leader in the Civil Rights Movement, she counseled presidents & established an organization for women of diverse racial & religious backgrounds to advance the movement.

Black and white portrait of an elegant woman

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · Aug 31

I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...

Pinks #35: Eugen Gomringer (1925-2025)

The life and work of Europe's first concrete poet

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