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| "Do not sink upon a bed of sloth, do not let your bewilderment overwhelm you; begin a voyage across the clear sea" (Anon, Ireland, 7th–8thC) |
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| Oh my, how did that come about? |
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| it is kind of scary! "oh, I have to walk around with like a photocopy in my bag? for a week? Ummm...." |
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| The Russians are holding onto my passport for 7 days. Yeah, nothing bad can spiral out from this, I'm sure. |
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| Witches, seances, and trances. Reintroducing the art of Swiss painter Albert von Keller: |
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| "On this day in 1816, the Shelleys & Lord Byron gathered to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. " |
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| None of this "be your best self" crap. Brodsky's commencement address was about what to do when you encounter evil: |
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| "The wind rattles. The air gets colder. The scratching sound under the bed is back." A ghost story by Mia Gallagher: |
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| I don't write fiction, so the comparison wouldn't be possible. But um, thanks, it's quite the compliment. |
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| Excerpt from a piece I wrote about a famous witch trial (not that 1) for cc: , |
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| The Reformation Museum didn't say anywhere "Of course Calvin was a masochistic cocksucker we are all trying to recover from" so, 2 stars. |
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| RT : RIP Michael Hastings, killed in car accident at 33, says. His 6/7 piece: ” |
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| We review 's YOU, an anthem for embracing our embarrassing selves & rewriting the rules of adulthood: |
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| The torturers sleep soundly their dreams are rosy/good-natured genocides.../already forgiven by brief human memory |
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| Full text of the Malleus Maleficarum, guidebook to recognizing and destroying witches. In case it comes in handy. |
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| Megan Abbott on witch trials, "the uncontrollability of the body, a subversive female power in spectacle." |
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| "Was Harold a good king?" "He was good at catching sharp things with his face." 's 1066 pop quiz: |
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| I am so into you right now. |
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| I mean, it kind of is, yes? |
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| What the sluts and the lesbians have to teach us about the way we do marriage: |
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