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Just reread "A Night in the Lonesome October" by Roger Zelazny. It is entirely as good as I remember, and this is probably at least the tenth time I've read it over the years. Really, really holds up well. Just magnificent.

#writing #GreatWriting #classics #RogerZelazny

Here's a short poem by Langston Hughes named "Question":

When the old junk man Death
Comes to gather up our bodies
And toss them into the sack of oblivion,
I wonder if he will find
The corpse of a white multi-millionaire
Worth more pennies of eternity,
Than the black torso of
A Negro cotton-picker?

#Poetry #GreatWriting #Inequality #FinalJustice

Duress.

"It was a face I'd seen a thousand times at every Derby I'd ever been to. I saw it, in my head, as the mask of the whiskey gentry--a pretentious mix of booze, failed dreams and a terminal identity crisis; the inevitable result of too much inbreeding in a closed and ignorant culture."
--Hunter S. Thompson, "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved"

The whole article and Ralph Steadman's artwork in pdf file in the link below:

http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf

#GreatWriting
#HunterThompson

Great stuff! I can't recommend enough!

OK, I'll try, but it's like I'm trying to slam dunk a basketball, when I can't jump 6" off the ground...

You'll love his books. They're great. Life-lessons. Tragedy. Comedy. And they're a good deal. Did I mention cheap?
#ShortFiction #ProsePoetry #Vonnegut did I mention #KurtVonnegut ?
https://www.DeepFried.store

https://beige.party/@wampusmm/114491746174829658
#Bookstodon #SuggestMeABook #GreatWriting #WritersOfMastodon

Anyone else reading the marvelous Petkovic Finite Jest newsletter? It's really wonderful: https://open.substack.com/pub/andreapetkovic/p/bodies-bodies-bodies?r=2w731&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #tennis #Petkovic #greatwriting

Scientist prose poet Ed Yong, on his next book, "The Infinite Extent":

"...think at scales beyond our normal experiences. We have to appreciate threats too small to see, violence too slow to feel, and global chains of influence too convoluted to comprehend. We must act collectively. We are not a small species; it is time to stop thinking like one."

I can hardly wait. But I have to, because I'm stuck here in time.
#Science #ScienceCommunicators #GreatWriting #BillyPilgrim

Due in 2 years.