John Mariolas
@sweetchilly.bsky.social
Jamming. Published a poetry collection. Other poems, texts too, in magazines
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@drlukewalker.com - Allen Ginsberg on William Blake this week - allenginsberg.org/2025/12/m-d-1/
Ginsberg on Blake 1979 - 1 - The Allen Ginsberg Project
Some time since we featured transcripts from Allen Ginsberg’s Naropa classes on William Blake. Blake, always worth attending to. We last left them here. We’ll pick it up again, chronologically, with ...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@drlukewalker.com - Allen Ginsberg on William Blake this week - allenginsberg.org/2025/12/m-d-1/
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Tahar Ben Jelloun - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
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December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tahar Ben Jelloun - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
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equally monotonous but equally inimitable, one has a clear sense of what a poet is.”
“One senses beneath his words another reality, transparent beneath the words, whose physiognomy is marked, beneath the various elements of the sentence, by the correspondence of their features.” (2/2)
“One senses beneath his words another reality, transparent beneath the words, whose physiognomy is marked, beneath the various elements of the sentence, by the correspondence of their features.” (2/2)
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
equally monotonous but equally inimitable, one has a clear sense of what a poet is.”
“One senses beneath his words another reality, transparent beneath the words, whose physiognomy is marked, beneath the various elements of the sentence, by the correspondence of their features.” (2/2)
“One senses beneath his words another reality, transparent beneath the words, whose physiognomy is marked, beneath the various elements of the sentence, by the correspondence of their features.” (2/2)
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Proust on Chateaubriand:
“I like reading Chateaubriand because by giving us to hear every two or three pages (just as after an interval of silence on summer nights one hears the two notes, always the same, that make up the song of the owl) his own particular call, (1/2)
“I like reading Chateaubriand because by giving us to hear every two or three pages (just as after an interval of silence on summer nights one hears the two notes, always the same, that make up the song of the owl) his own particular call, (1/2)
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Proust on Chateaubriand:
“I like reading Chateaubriand because by giving us to hear every two or three pages (just as after an interval of silence on summer nights one hears the two notes, always the same, that make up the song of the owl) his own particular call, (1/2)
“I like reading Chateaubriand because by giving us to hear every two or three pages (just as after an interval of silence on summer nights one hears the two notes, always the same, that make up the song of the owl) his own particular call, (1/2)
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"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."
—from Emma by Jane Austen
—from Emma by Jane Austen
a drawing of a heart with a smiling face inside of it
ALT: a drawing of a heart with a smiling face inside of it
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."
—from Emma by Jane Austen
—from Emma by Jane Austen
Collage for my father
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Collage for my father
He's from the music industry
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
He's from the music industry
Whoever finds out who I had in mind as Paul in the previous joke wins a golden horologe
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Whoever finds out who I had in mind as Paul in the previous joke wins a golden horologe
Hunter:
- So I kill the deer, I pick it up and start cutting it up to carry it. So I have one leg on one shoulder and the other leg on the other...
- Mr Paul, telephone
*Goes to answer, returns*
- So, where was I?
- You had one leg on one shoulder and the other on the other
- And I let her have it!
- So I kill the deer, I pick it up and start cutting it up to carry it. So I have one leg on one shoulder and the other leg on the other...
- Mr Paul, telephone
*Goes to answer, returns*
- So, where was I?
- You had one leg on one shoulder and the other on the other
- And I let her have it!
November 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Hunter:
- So I kill the deer, I pick it up and start cutting it up to carry it. So I have one leg on one shoulder and the other leg on the other...
- Mr Paul, telephone
*Goes to answer, returns*
- So, where was I?
- You had one leg on one shoulder and the other on the other
- And I let her have it!
- So I kill the deer, I pick it up and start cutting it up to carry it. So I have one leg on one shoulder and the other leg on the other...
- Mr Paul, telephone
*Goes to answer, returns*
- So, where was I?
- You had one leg on one shoulder and the other on the other
- And I let her have it!
Boy versus girl in the World Series of love
Prince - U got the look
Prince - U got the look
November 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Boy versus girl in the World Series of love
Prince - U got the look
Prince - U got the look
This poem is about becoming so famous that people show you to one another in the street, saying "that's the man"
November 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This poem is about becoming so famous that people show you to one another in the street, saying "that's the man"
First time today I saw stand up comedy live. Not very good, not very bad. But I discovered that if you start talking, with the ambition to be in a show, you show your true colors. One of them was a terrible toxic human being, and she didn't even know it, total disregard of people, just needs therapy
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
First time today I saw stand up comedy live. Not very good, not very bad. But I discovered that if you start talking, with the ambition to be in a show, you show your true colors. One of them was a terrible toxic human being, and she didn't even know it, total disregard of people, just needs therapy
It is in modern day Turkiye
November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It is in modern day Turkiye
So, second time today that I mention Bithynia, the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch is meeting now with the Pope in Nice of Bithynia
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
So, second time today that I mention Bithynia, the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch is meeting now with the Pope in Nice of Bithynia
C'mon, man, I have chances, I haven't been married yet, a dower is waiting for me somewhere
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
C'mon, man, I have chances, I haven't been married yet, a dower is waiting for me somewhere
Chilly, have you been reading Julius Caesar's biography? At what scope, you filthy deadbeat wino?
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Chilly, have you been reading Julius Caesar's biography? At what scope, you filthy deadbeat wino?
Burroughs said in an interview that he wanted to be the leader of the CIA, but certain people there didn't like him
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Burroughs said in an interview that he wanted to be the leader of the CIA, but certain people there didn't like him
Burroughs says homosexuality is the best cover for an agent
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Burroughs says homosexuality is the best cover for an agent