Moon Grocer

by Kartar Singh Sarabha, member of the Ghadar party

quoted as the epigram to Bolaño’s Nazi Literature In The Americas

you’ve gotta give bolaño props for this opening

wait what??? Ok I’m very confused what’s the link between a ‘book in Old English’ and A Clockwork Orange?? Am I a victim of the new literacy crisis or is the article author???

…leaving aside “basically just Russian” as also incorrect, my feeling is that this *was* just a fuck up on some level that I would find deeply embarassing: if the ‘fuck up’ was a confused student who’s simultaneously educated enough to recognize the unconventional style as potentially being Old English but can’t recognize Old English as such, I would generally say it’s on the professor for not having said at some point ‘okay so it’s not that.’ That’s just me tho that’s just me

Liberalism at Large: the world according to The Economist, Alexander Zevin

Ben Jonson, from Epigrammes

time to post my favorite far side comic of all time