@scriptumsent

and gathering swallows X in the skies

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Standing my ground for Real America by ordering a White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle
Mark Walker
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Clinging to my guns and religion at the Greensboro Cheesecake Factory tonight.
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Replying to @SimonSimplicio
Strikes me as almost a material corollary of the principle Bonum ex integra causa, malum ex quocumque defectu
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(Cosmo-Chan) 殷小晖@commie_cosmo12h
The Wikipedia page on Frederick the Great’s sexuality has this gem
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Ren fair? Uhhh have you met Kylo?
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and is there a Mrs. Mime?
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He was monitoring the situation
owen cyclops
@owenbroadcastOct 25
God put adam in the garden “to tend it”, but there’s no record of tending in the story. it’s paradise: what was he doing? unlikely he’d be watering. has to be weeding at minimum, but that isn’t very paradisiacal. i don’t even like keeping up with my lawn. maybe he wanted to leave
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Looking to the divine exemplar of the modern major general
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(walking into the final audition) EXEC: Whenever you’re ready ME: Bond is the name. I’m James Bond.
Variety
@VarietyOct 22
Jack Lowden and Callum Turner are among the final names in the running for James Bond. Final screen tests for Amazon MGM Studios' new 007 are set to happen in the next week. variety.com/2026/film/global…
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Banker who mixes up grammar always saying he works for Goods Fargo
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Using “sunset boulevard” as a euphemism for destroying a road
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Well it looks like I’m going to See Everything tonight…
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Replying to @WB_Baskerville
@WB_Baskerville
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Nice pox you’ve got there… would be a shame if it were on your house
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Replying to @wokus_dei1
When you check her phone and she’s in love with the Beautiful itself
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Replying to @franzsherbert
I’ve heard that too, that’s funny though because it’s another case where reading the text in isolation would be very misleading (finding out later who “Mme Swann” is is like the punchline to that whole section)
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Replying to @scriptumsent @franzsherbert
Also it’s impossible to really appreciate the moments of sublimity and the recovery of memory without the extreme dilation. It’s required for the effect.
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Replying to @scriptumsent @franzsherbert
So I am 100% on team “read the whole thing”
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Replying to @scriptumsent @franzsherbert
the perspective you come to at the very end. But the ending of Swann’s Way itself (in pessimistic melancholy), beautiful as it is, is really the inverse of the true ending, and if you stopped there it would give you a totally false understanding of the story and his view of time.
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Replying to @franzsherbert
Agreed on the whole though I think it works a bit more as a stand-alone than later volumes. “Swann in Love” gives you a semi-contained narrative, and the last section (walking around Paris) jumps ahead to reflect on earlier events as things lost to time, so you get a foretaste of
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