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Richard A. Garner received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo's English Department. This is his website. The site grew out of an older tumblr, thus the name Absalom, Absalom!. You can see the original epigraph for the site here.

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    The Oxford English Dictionary is currently soliciting public help in tracking down "a mysterious, possibly pornographic, 19th-century book from which a number of its quotations...
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    A manuscript page from a novel in progress by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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    missal and book of hours, Lombardy ca. 1385-1390.

    Paris, BnF, Latin 757, fol. 312r

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    This triple gear is a real thing, and thanks to some intricate math and the advent of 3-D printing, it exists. Before this, at least as far as I can tell, a triple-meshed...

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    From Robert Frost’s notebooks:

    Please Let Me Flourish
    Somewhere on earth where as in heaven
    desert doesn’t matter.
    The inalienable right to fail.
    To flourish is to play.

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    From p. 105 of New Complete Palmistry: Containing the Most Simple Presentations of the Science of Modern Palmistry, Including All of the Discoveries,...

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Mar
23
  • aliens
  • alien invasion
  • blackness
  • race
  • cinema
  • sf

Why Alien Invasion is the Perfect Metaphor for Growing Up Black in America | i09

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Mar
22
  • torture
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  • zero dark thirty
  • neutrality
  • cinema

“Without a shadow of a doubt, she is on the side of the normalisation of torture.”

Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood’s gift to American power | Slavoj Žižek

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15
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Trailer for The Polymath, a biopic of Samuel R. Delany, one of my favorite writers, fiction and non. I imagine that it will be extremely difficult to get a hold of this … 

New Yorker review here, somewhere.

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