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Sim!

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

And Serbia!

And Serbia!

new york forever. FUCK ICE.

Poetry proves again and again that any single overall theory of anything doesn't work. Poetry is always the cat concert under the window of the room in which the official version of reality is being written. -- Charles Simic

Teaching the history of chop suey this week in my #AsianFoodwaysinMigration class, and I have to say this was one of the most unexpected strays "Rather, she argues, the culprit was a bowel obstruction, brought on by a fibrous mass of chop suey that Houdini ate on Oct. 28."

After Democrats lost control of North Carolina’s supreme court in 2022, Republican justices greenlit voter ID requirements and electoral maps that favor the GOP. One of the two Democrats left on the court is up for reelection this fall.

You might remember that Dems already succeeded in the March primary at ousting a Dem lawmaker who was siding with the GOP on major veto overrides. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

One of the legislative races in watching most closely: Tricia Cotham, the lawmaker in North Carolina who flipped parties in 2023 to become a Republican & allow the GOP to ban abortion, is running for reelection.

North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board.

North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board.

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

"By hacking away at the learned language of academic defence in which I was trained." -Anne Carson, interview, The White Review (July 2017)

Um DukeALERT Tornado Warning Main Campus-Durham. Seek safe location! Avoid windows/doors. Updates at emergency.duke.edu

Another fruitful Regulator Bookshop excursion: I've only just read an ARC of the astounding Music Against the Night by Yiyun Li, but the material book is beautiful and I wanted to cherish it and read it a second time on paper And I’ve been a Jasper Fforde loyalist since The Eyre Affair (2001)!

War creates two categories of persons: those who outlive it and those who don’t. Both carry wounds. -Anne Carson #everynightapoem

To feel anything deranges you. -Anne Carson, red doc > (@AAKnopf, 2013) #everynightapoem #fragment

In 2001, I came across The Beauty of the Husband on the new books table at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social - and the only information I could glean about the author was her bio: “Anne Carson lives in Canada.” And was instantly smitten

The pile has since grown. So pleased for Anne Carson, but felt her response to the @nobelprize.org sums it up quite nicely:

Mid-century robots are the best robots

lol, never change Ivies, never change (see Penn tooting its horn a couple of years ago about Katalin Karikó's Nobel win, when they never supported her or her research on mRNAs)

"Maybe this week I can harness my loss-aversion to maintain a literature review streak and then gamify my inbox while managing mental fatigue with the Pomodoro method."

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

The pile has since grown. So pleased for Anne Carson, but felt her response to the @nobelprize.org sums it up quite nicely:

In 2001, I came across The Beauty of the Husband on the new books table at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social - and the only information I could glean about the author was her bio: “Anne Carson lives in Canada.” And was instantly smitten

“I no longer gather what falls.” -Anne Carson, On Hedonism “Short Talks” From Plainwater #everynightapoem #ofsorts

On the Total Collection -Anne Carson, “Short Talks”

On Reading -Anne Carson, “Short Talks”

On Rectification -Anne Carson, “Short Talks”

On Homo Sapiens “Short Talks,” by Anne Carson (from Plainwater @vintagebooks)

Repent means “the pain again” Anne Carson, Nox

I love the old questions. Anne Carson, Nox

et dubitas quin sensus in nocte nullus sit? and do you still doubt that consciousness vanishes at night? Nox / Anne Carson

omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat the whole pointless night seeps out of the heart manantia — anne carson — nox

Anne Carson, Nox

“Now by far the strangest thing that humans do — he is firm on this — is history. This asking.” Herodotus, Anne Carson, Nox

Places in the world where you and I saw things. -Anne Carson, Nox

But all those little kidnaps in the dark. -Anne Carson, Nox revisiting this oddly arresting box of words tonight #everynightapoem

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides #everynightapoem

"How does distance look?" is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. -Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red #everynightapoem #ofsorts

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. -Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (Seated Figure by Betty Goodwin) #everynightapoem #ofsorts

“Philosophic Problems. ‘I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.’” -Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red #everynightapoem #ofsorts

In fact neither reader nor writer nor lover achieves such consummation. The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. Eros is somewhere in between. -Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet #everynightapoem

What is erotic about reading (or writing) is the play of imagination called forth in the space between you and your object of knowledge. Poets and novelists, like lovers, touch that space to life with their metaphors and subterfuge. -Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

In letters as in love,to imagine is to address oneself to what is not. To write words I put a symbol in place of an absent sound. -Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet #everynightapoem #ofsorts

"Your absence from the syntax of my life is not a fact to be changed by written words." -Anne Carson on Archilochus, in Eros the Bittersweet #everynightapoem #ofsorts

I don't know what to do two states of mind in me -Sappho trans. Anne Carson #everynightapoem

prose is a house poetry a man in flames running / quite fast through it -Anne Carson, red doc > #everynightapoem