There’s a new bookstore in the South Street Seaport which I loved going to until recently which has a picture of Herman Melville on the wall and I always think of Bartleby when I go in there.
― Robbie Shakespeare’s Sister Lovers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 March 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
xxpost.
I would prefer not to say.
― cajunsunday, Monday, 23 March 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
Kept meaning to ask them to put up a picture of Jean-Pierre Melville as well.
― Robbie Shakespeare’s Sister Lovers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 March 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
i like this poll
pom have you read the vila-matas book ?
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 05:58 (four years ago) link
i prefer not to vote btw
I'm going for "What is wanted?", which, isolated from its context, is otm.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 08:36 (four years ago) link
i like this pollpom have you read the vila-matas book ?
― Robbie Shakespeare’s Sister Lovers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 10:31 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
Not yet, but I've meaning to. It's been languishing on my reading list for years now, partly because I keep clinging to the fantasy that someday I'll use it to brush up on my feeble Spanish instead of resorting to a translation, which is what's bound to happen anyway.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 27 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
'“Do you not see the reason for yourself,” he indifferently replied' = underrated imho.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Friday, 27 March 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
that one has been worming away round my head with an odd insistence such that i feel i might be compelled to try it out at work this week. (on a video call i shd stress)
― Fizzles, Monday, 30 March 2020 08:28 (four years ago) link
i have given up copying and pasting
― j., Monday, 30 March 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
how does one speak in a flute-like tone?
― andrew m., Monday, 30 March 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgufAvkTB1s
― coco vide (pomenitul), Monday, 30 March 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
very ephemeral airy pronunciation imo
like exhaling while enunciating but not forcing air with specific words
― mh, Monday, 30 March 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
forgot how surprisingly funny some of this story is, especially the bit where everyone in the office can't stop saying the word "prefer."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 19 December 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link