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French 75s, while being invented in 1915, were popularized in 1930 when Harry Craddock published the Savoy Cocktail Book, meaning that the bartender on the saloon deck here would have had to read the book (given this is set less than a year later) — or he independently invented the drink #realdrinkercommentary

Crazy we’re still trying to find ways to catch up to the experimentation of Tristram Shandy

always find it kind of grating when books/people do that sort of name-dropping by omission thing. Just say the father's favourite book about archives was Derrida's Archive Fever instead of this quoting the first page shit

Enjoying this, but: is it really so absurd to have 4 notebooks on the go at once? I just counted and I am actively writing in 8 different notebooks on an almost daily basis

Finally getting around to reading this because I cracked open the new Sebald essay collection and the first piece is on Stifter so I need to #dothework

It’s always someone with a PhD from an Ivy saying something like “especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy.”

It does seem to me that Davenport’s admiration of Pound (the poet) makes him maybe a bit too much of an apologist for Pound (the man). I like the Cantos as much as the next guy with a masters in comp lit but cmon. Seems to fall into the same trap Kenner often did, which is apparently seeing Pound’s very real fascism as unworthy of material identification

Zukofsky essay is incredible

loving this

“Diamonds” as verb is such an incredible move (the line being “dawn / diamonds the wind”. Used like adorns, I guess?)

If Susan Howe is a poet’s poet, could Fanny Howe be a poet’s poet’s poet (?)

Quinnigan’s Quake !

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Been reading as many pages of this as I can everyday since the start of the new year. Which is not many pages truthfully

Big fan of “Dr. Slop”

For the last day or so I’ve been hearing Trump in my head saying “these nasty Marxist critiques are very unfair to Henry James — not nice!”

Geography III: still as good as it was when I read it earlier this year

Wow has anyone ever mentioned before that this book is really good ? Because it’s really good

Nice to know Killian also didn’t give a shit about astronauts

Often when reading Gaddis it gives me the impression that I’m reading one of the best novels of all time

“Does it change anything that Freud did not know about the computer?”

Re-reading what I think is likely Indiana’s best work, RIP

“The difference in treatment of individual or mass death has consequences for modern war: it is not in the same way, even if it is called surgical, that one bombards Iraq and Sarajevo in the name of international law…”

“… and our era, less intimidated by sex…” good reminder this was not written by a North American

Gotta be honest I am not enjoying spending time with the genius child

Title story is incredible, then: diminishing returns

Feldman, the eponymous Bad Man, speaking to the other inmates almost exclusively in MBA-style quips is a good bit

XLI — Sea-Ports
If only Baudelaire lived to see the faces of agony and exhaustion in the airport

I understand these diagrams perfectly

Really loving this