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Zachary Lesser

@zacharylesser.bsky.social

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Book history, Shakespeare, early modern studies @ Penn English. Views just my own. Image in header is from: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen'l Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org/ / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · May 31

LADY MACDUFF
For the poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will piss
Into the sea.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 23h

Steve Coogan delightful as always

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, a great movie featuring a penguin!

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 1d

There's no point inviting him on. It's just giving him a stage for their theater. Let him go on state run media to spout his propaganda. You don't have to have him on

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 1d

Have you watched The Penguin Lessons???

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Jared Farmer @geohumanist.bsky.social · 1d

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 2d

Gordon Korman books are great

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 3d

Other universities such as, e.g., @upenn.edu !

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 3d

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, she is named Eve

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 4d

Too long to wait!

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 6d

Now I want a bumper sticker that reads:

Thus they relate,
Erring.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 6d

I have found this to be very hard

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Adam Zucker Again @adamzucker.bsky.social · 6d

I generally endorse poetry bumper stickers, but no. Exactly the opposite.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 6d

Never apologize for using an Arden @ardenpublisher.bsky.social !even if it's Arden 2!

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 9d

Well, by "way out", I mean, avoid having to make a choice either way. Avoid having to do one thing or the other.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 9d

stalling also is a way to see what others do. Prisoner's dilemma is at work here.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 9d

it's meant to stall; they are buying time hoping to find a way out. That's my guess.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 9d

So the secret to Bluesky is... kebabs?

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 10d

Kofta kebab recipe in England c. 1660. Amazing find!

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 10d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 10d

They were such a revelation. I first tuned in to them with Fables, then found Murmur, and then realized that Reckoning was my favorite. I lost track of them after about 1990 and I think they declined but I think people don't realize how incredible they were for a stretch in the 80s

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 10d

Also, if the university gives Trump their mobile number, they get 10% off their first order

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 10d

Oh yeah I had this last time you posted about it. Delicious!

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 10d

No but I'm gonna! You're killing me on a fast day though

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 11d

Oh that's very far from the passport place which is not far from my house

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 11d

Where's this sandwich exactly?

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 13d

Delightful. Something similar happened at my house about ten years ago when i burned something in the kitchen and set off the alarm

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