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It’s real. It’s actually really real 🙏🏽 Orison Books Luke Hankins

Now for our latest books give-away: 38 Classics books to be raffled off for free. Just RT this message, follow us, and we will make the draw on Monday 9 June. 1st name gets 20 books, 2nd 12, 3rd 6. Open to all, good luck! (Will post details and photos of each book this evening.)

New sonnet in LIGHT poetry magazine about these overly bright, noisy, glassy, computer-infested new libraries….

“No genius is so fortunate as he who has the power and wish to do well what his predecessors have been doing badly. … Under such conditions … the perfect work comes, ripe and not overripe: a Jane Austen following on a Fanny Burney, a Racine on a Corneille.” —C.S. Lewis

Ancient marble head of a classical goddess, intentionally defaced and engraved with a Christian cross, circa AD 500. Now housed in the Archaeological Museum of Samos, Greece.

Here in Hartford, Connecticut—just met someone who recently retired from the same insurance company that Wallace Stevens worked for Going to visit the Mark Twain House tomorrow Heckuva lot of literary history here

Mask, 1987, by Yoshitaka Amano

A joke about the redemptive power of racism

Me and Lego Mark Twain

Powerful Twain maxim

A Voyage to the Moon, by Gustave Doré

Walked around Mark Twain’s house in Connecticut. Pretty astonishing how short people were even a hundred years ago. The counters, sinks, and tables were barely past my knee.

Twain married rich but he blew the family money investing in the late 19th century equivalent of a tech startup

Mark Twain’s house in Hartford I’ve never read Puddnhead Wilson before, I’m going to audiobook that next

MJ Vassanji on Anthony Burgess’s difficulty elucidating the “universal” western classics in Malaysia … and to non-westerners everywhere. (Nowhere, Exactly)

Thanks to themohenjodaro for running my Hindoo History piece on Baba Bharati. Recently spoke with the team behind this publication and am impressed with their vision. Please do follow and support themohenjodaro

1623 edition of Firdausi’s Shahnameh on display at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Coptic Book of Revelation where the Coptic had to be mixed with Arabic because the Copts were forgetting Coptic