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incurrable dilettante; @ me to incur. ‘Reply game worth the pain of having to put up with his tweets’

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@monofrogue

frog

1 year

Heard joke once: man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him."

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@monofrogue

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1 year

'Treatment is simple', replies the older. 'Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him'. As the patient closes the door behind him, the older man sits back in his chair and chuckles to himself, 'But doctor...I am Pagliacci'.

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1 year

Man goes to Pagliacci's show. The theatre is full of laughter from the moment the clown trips onto the stage late. Man is overwhelmed with joy and an impression that life is bursting with meaning. He comes out of the theatre singing, and dances home under the stars.

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@monofrogue

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1 year

Finally the door opens, but he finds himself looking not at the doctor, but at a version of himself, thirty years younger. 'I'm depressed', the younger man says. 'Life seems harsh and cruel. I feel all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.'

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@monofrogue

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1 year

But Man has had years of reading and re-reading the script. He knows precisely what needs to be said and done, and precisely how it needs to be said and done. He runs onto the stage to take over, trips over an uneven floorboard, and kicks off the evening of non-stop laughter.

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1 year

The next day, he thinks he'll go again. But when he turns up at the Box Office, they say Pagliacci has disappeared. He looks backstage, but the only trace there was ever a clown there is a very ragged script, which Man pockets.

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@monofrogue

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1 year

At the end of the show, Man leaves a copy of the script in a dressing room, and leaves secretly. Then another thought strikes him: if he was Pagliacci the whole time, then how did the doctor know about the show?

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@monofrogue

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1 year

Not to worry. It's a theatre, so there's sure to be costumes backstage. Sure enough, in the first dressing room he tries there's a harlequin's suit and some shoes - albeit a little too big for him. For good measure he cakes some white facepaint on as well.

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1 year

He decides to use the time machine again, and goes back to earlier in the day, so he can find the doctor. He goes to the hospital and, disguised in a white coat and stethoscope, he sneaks into the doctor's office to wait for him to appear.

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@monofrogue

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1 year

Man has a burning passion to see Pagliacci again. For three decades, he travels the country and the major world capitals, looking for him. Nobody has seen Pagliacci. Nobody outside that first town has even heard of him, or recognises the script Man has copied out.

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@monofrogue

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1 year

One day, a woman comes to his door. 'I have heard about your search', says the visitor. 'Alas, I cannot tell you where Pagliacci is now. But I can still help'. She pulls out a strange machine. 'This device', she says, 'can send you to the past, where you know where to find him.'

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1 year

Man seizes the opportunity. He sets the contraption to take him back to that night where he saw Pagliacci, and makes his way to the theatre. When he gets there, he realises there's a risk of running into himself. 'I can't be recognisable', he thinks.

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1 year

Realising the show must be about to start, he runs to the wing, so as not to miss a moment. The curtain rises, but nobody appears on stage. 'This is a disaster', he thinks, 'This was the most important night of my life. I can't let it not happen'.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

can’t believe it worked on my first attempt

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@ObberGobb @Hbomberguy i wrote it, but (in case you don't know) it's a riff on a ~joke as told in alan moore's watchmen.

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9 months

@tamsword the girl reading this

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9 months

@alpert @cremieuxrecueil God

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9 months

@MarcGG1974 i never said he took the clown makeup off

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9 months

@AntonyRaphael18 @jonatanpallesen Hi👋

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9 months

@QiaochuYuan they don't call me 'mr novikov-consistency' for nothing

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9 months

@PlsNoBanImJokin it stands for J.O.K.E Of Kwestionable Excellence

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9 months

it's going to be so embarrassing when my tweets still get no likes (hi to all my new followers btw)

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9 months

@NotFrankke having a little fun :)

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@monofrogue

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2 years

@anniierau I knew a chaplain that did this, but going through the line of Babylonian kings for his daily latte.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@inporrigible the setup and final punchline are as told in alan moore's watchmen. the stuff in between is mine, 'though the idea is similar to a thousand bootstrap paradox/timeloop stories

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@monofrogue

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9 months

my darlings, the reviews are in.

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9 months

@decentricity 'I'm so sorry, Moth,' says the medic, 'I really am. I can't imagine what it must be like for you. But this is really something to talk about with the ship's Counsellor. Why did you come down here?' 'Oh,' says the Moth, 'they turned the gravity on.'

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@decentricity You heard the one about the moth who goes into the sickbay at the bottom of an intergalactic ship? 'Doc!', he says to the senior medical officer. 'I really thought we were finally gonna get to that star up ahead, but now they tell me we're about to change direction.

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9 months

@APKramar

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9 months

@SeanBellring omg those 'everything's cake' videos but everything's pagliacci. we're building up the gesamtkunstwerk here.

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@monofrogue

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7 months

you're telling me franz kafka may not have been completely well-adjusted? surely not *the* franz kafka?

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1 year

@TetraspaceWest

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@monofrogue

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9 months

um... 'lurker' is a slur, actually. it's called basking

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@PeterTheMeh i am but one frogue, indeed

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9 months

@jerryrajrod1 @vinayaravind you're not wrong

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@monofrogue

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9 months

for the sake of posterity (hello, posterity) i've named the story 'pagliacci's treatment' and transcribed it over at monofrogue dot substack dot com /p/pagliaccis-treatment

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@ulkar_aghayeva @joodalooped not particularly, though i'm a big fan

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@monofrogue

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9 months

remember, you have one month left to listen unjudged by spotify wrapped. don't waste it listening to bing crosby sing hark the herald.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@decentricity 'I've never felt more down in my life. When they clipped my wings, I was distraught, but I knew I'd always be able to fly towards the light of a thousand galaxies with the Space Corps. Now I've come to realise that everytime we get close to a star, we change direction.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@decentricity 'The Corps never had any intention of letting me approach the glow of a sun. My dreams are as useless as my wings, and all I can do is mourn them down here with people who will never understand.

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@monofrogue

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7 months

i think about this a lot

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@Aahz_of_Perv @ObberGobb @Hbomberguy Nah, the Heinlein-esque stuff is what I added to Moore’s joke.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

oh hey, they recorded your flirting in a story

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@monofrogue

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1 year

@d08890 Yes—this is much underplayed. But the line goes back further than this. Check back to when Frodo first encounters Gollum in Chapters 1 Book 4, and what he stresses 2 chapters later:

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@monofrogue

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6 months

Please give me your best examples of really good or interesting prose from works of sci-fi in English from the last 80 years.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@calderonhenrys thank you <3

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@monofrogue

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8 months

was having a bad day, but i just got to walk into a room where my dad was sorting cables, and say 'are you winning?', so it turns out God is good, after all.

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@monofrogue

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7 months

sometimes people decide to just be open, honest and charming around here, and immediately pick up innumerable followers. fkn sellouts.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

sometimes i take little breaks from twitter (i read tweets but don't interact with any so the gods don't find out)

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@monofrogue

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10 months

alright, i'm declaring the fun over. from now on, for every thread i see from a military historian, i will tell one (1) person that napoleon personally bit off the sphinx's nose.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@NotFrankke it's a heartfelt tribute to the hopeful naivety of the human condition (it was just me playing around adding a bootstrap 'paradox' to the pagliacci story 'cause it amused me)

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@monofrogue

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7 months

the funniest thing an author has ever done is write a book called 'do androids dream of electric sheep' and actually introduce an electric sheep in the first chapter

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11 months

@sympatheticopp if Venus herself fell for a mortal, it could happen to you too…

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@monofrogue

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7 months

some of you are insufficiently worried about what your bookshelves would say about contemporary humanity if a cloud of volcanic ash were to preserve them for the next millenium

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@monofrogue

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9 months

'aha! i have owned edward said by writing a masterpiece in a late style despite not being about to die' (i am immediately struck by lightning)

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@monofrogue

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7 months

roses are red but when will you learn that thou art but dust, and to dust shalt return?

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@monofrogue

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2 years

I get that this is a joke, but it actually significantly understates the number of authors implied by the text. Apparently some people don't know (smh) the complexities of Tolkien's metamythical framing. Here are a few snapshots. 1/12

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Kevin Clarke

2 years

New data suggest multiple authorship of the Tolkien corpus. In this paper, I argue that First Tolkien's LotR (JRR1), directly influenced Second Tolkien's Hobbit (JRR2), and Third Tolkien's Silmarillion (JRR3). A dwarvish redactor (JRR-r) left traces of influence on JRR1 and JRR2.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

canon this canon that. you mean you canon't understand the value of stories?

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@bazeblackwood aha what makes you so confident i'm not an ai?

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@monofrogue

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7 months

The Gospel According to Mark was a fine book but its christology was a bit iffy. wouldve been way better if at the end Mark addressed the reader & said "i am miaphysitist now" & then specified hes the exact kind of miaphysitist i am

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@monofrogue

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7 months

hebridean yudkowsky be like 'i would leave you for someone a night with whom would be worth 1100 black cattle'

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@monofrogue

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7 months

im the guy who took the 50,000 dollars btw. i actually do work for the cia; I just had to steal the money because the department wouldn’t cough up for the 60 sets of Richard Taruskin’s five-volume masterpiece The Oxford History of Western Music that we need

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@monofrogue

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8 months

biting the bullet and liking a mutual’s tweet even though they just liked yours and it looks transactional

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7 months

reminder that every time you say that birds are dinosaurs you make dinosaurs seem a little less cool.

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@monofrogue

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8 months

guys guys apparently the secret to stories is that sometimes things get better and sometimes they get worse and sometimes they get better and then worse and sometimes they get worse then better and sometimes they get worse then better then worse again and sometimes they get bette

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Nathan Baugh

8 months

In 2016, researchers at the University of Adelaide tested Kurt Vonnegut's theory that, "There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers." They took the emotional arcs of 1300+ novels from Project Gutenberg, turned that into data, used modern tech

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@monofrogue

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8 months

by the way, if you're still awake after, for instance, four o'clock, you can just start reading a book, and pretend it's the sweet distractions of your childhood keeping you up rather than the evils of modernity

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@monofrogue

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2 years

@richardosman Easy to be overshadowed in that team with Henry and Bergkamp.

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@monofrogue

frog

8 months

Wait did someone finally work out how to put the punk in solarpunk?

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parm

8 months

I have posted this 3 times NO ONE CARED ONCE. PLEASE AT LEAST READ THIS THEY REMOVED THE TADPOLES LUNGS AND THEN THEY INJECTED THE TINY PHOTOSYNTHETIC ALGAE INTO TADPOLE AND ALGAE MADE THE OXYGEN FOR TADPOLE BY PHOTOSYNTHESIS LIKE REPLACED THE LUNGS???

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@monofrogue

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9 months

i crossed both 50 and 1500 followers in the same 48 hours, then couldn't tweet for two weeks, so circling back to inaccessible puns about medieval chant is healing, actually.

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9 months

There's nothing wrong with using an old trope or two at this time of year. Happy Christmas, everyone.

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10 months

i coulda been a contender, but i never had the latin. i never had the latin for the contendin'. i didn't have sufficient to get through the rigorous contendin' exams. they're very rigorous, the contendin' exams; they're noted for their rigour

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@monofrogue

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1 year

I love all the videos of Barry Harris teaching dense bebop theory, but it's interesting that the moment where he really creates joy is when he has an excuse to just stop and just play the Blues.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@shoecatladder @tszzl you wait two years for an idea for a popular tweet, then five come along at once smh

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@acidshill thank you, mr. shill

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@monofrogue

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8 months

might fuck around and make a social criticism in abstract enough terms that it’s still valid in twenty/fifty/a hundred years and people call me prescient

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@monofrogue

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11 months

@i_zzzzzz my secret is that i read your tweets as if peter bogdanovich were actually saying them to pauline kael

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@monofrogue

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8 months

very funny to dunk on true independent thinkers, but you didn't ever stop to consider that the gaylors might have a point?

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@monofrogue

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7 months

'kill the part of you that cringes' isn't a wholesome mantra. it's an acceptance of the fundamental insensibility of the cringe an sich.

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@monofrogue

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7 months

louis macneice on the incompleteness of hyperstimuli

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1 year

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@monofrogue

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6 months

174 goats and 1 sports car

@DaveMcNamee3000

7/11 Truther

@DaveMcNamee3000

4 years

What would you keep in the 175 pocket jacket?

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@monofrogue

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8 months

yankee doodle wrote an ode, a-try'n' to be byronic, stuck a loan-word in each verse, and called it macaronic

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2 years

@ellegist

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@monofrogue

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11 months

Serious Analysis:

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Anatomy of The Tiger

Nael, age 6, and the Shield of Youth

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@nosilverv

Guy is in SAN FRANCISCO

11 months

Has anyone done a serious analysis of this poem? Doing "Yes YES" without any exclamations points is such an inspired choice. It baffles the mind

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@monofrogue

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8 months

wake up @gwern new nootropic just dropped

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9 months

@SimonKepchar it was a genuine delight when i finally clicked 'show more replies' and found these independent thinkers

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@monofrogue

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10 months

@DrFrancisYoung @OptimoPrincipi TH White built a temple to Hadrian in his garden on Alderney.

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@monofrogue

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6 months

imo philosophy is easier than computer science because in philosophy you just need to understand words, but in cs they draw a box inside another box and somehow you’re supposed to intuit the universe. sometimes there are arrows.

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@monofrogue

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7 months

weird fucking coincidence that everybody else who likes the things i like is utterly unbearable

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@monofrogue

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8 months

Tried and failed to start a chorus, and thus can only suppose that the good people of London Town do in fact believe that auld acquaintance should be forgot and never brought to mind.

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@monofrogue

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9 months

@lowkeyGPT you bring the make-up and the audience, i'll bring the leather jacket and the microphone

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@monofrogue

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1 year

@Liz_Mc2 @ZachWeiner Here's the specific passage (chapter nine). The whole story of picking up the baby is several pages long, but well-worth a re-read.

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@monofrogue

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3 years

@PradyuPrasad @besttrousers Yeah, but (contrary to the headline's implication), the sum to the families is actually court directed, and no court system can be based on pure utilitarianism. Though how on earth you come up with a compensation sum (as huge as that, but also in general), I don't know.

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@monofrogue

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8 months

fellas don't forget to get her flowers for alexander scriabin's birthday.

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6 months

omg

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7 months

don maclean: now for ten years we've been on our own don maclean: and moss grows fat on a rolling stone don maclean: but that's not how it used to be soviet cultural attaché: well we give you as much support as we can, you know

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@monofrogue

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7 months

i would simply choose a partner than whom nobody is even one per cent better

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@monofrogue

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11 months

feeling all alone in this broken world; might just write talos alzabo hierodule yesod to catch a lonely rt

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