question over how much to lean into the Dante of it ...
have spent an hour thinking about the phrase Β« le grand entonnoir Β»
"And the voices of the sinners were a great lamentation, for they cried out after mercy and forgiveness with great gnashing of teeth and vexation of spirit ..."
Gifts of the Spirit β @ericracher.bsky.social
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submissions open Monday
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Gifts of the Spirit β @ericracher.bsky.social
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"The rope goes between my teeth. Before itβs hitched, attached from the back to the suspension line, she gently lifts my chin, as though to slit my throat and bleed me. She caresses me instead ..."
Hogtie Sequence
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beautiful
*GRAND
more on Gonnet here:
tobiasryan.substack.com/p/on-hubert-...
in progress ... Hubert Gonnet's LE GRANDE SCANDALE ...
nerd app is nerding
this is more abject than the most explicit post
"She slides closer; I see even less. I can just make out her head, thrown back. Sheβs under me, almost directly beneath me. She is cresting, and I smell the perfumed movements of her pleasure, spice and vetiver and underbrush ..."
"The rope goes between my teeth. Before itβs hitched, attached from the back to the suspension line, she gently lifts my chin, as though to slit my throat and bleed me. She caresses me instead ..."
Hogtie Sequence
tobiasryan.substack.com/p/hogtie-seq...
this story was out with Berfrois in 2022, but as their site's no longer up, am resharing on Substack ...
tobiasryan.substack.com/p/hogtie-seq...
Alexander Booth. Carnation. 2025. (Red cover, black script, abstract monotype within a black frame)
Paul Eluard. RΓ©pΓ©titions. Dessins de Max Ernst. A Paris au sans pareil. [1922] (Red cover, black script, b/w collage of three hands two of which are threading an eye, within a black frame)
Reflections : Carnation / RΓ©pΓ©titions
and coming up this week ...
β new fiction from @ericracher.bsky.social
β experimental writing from Sef
last week @ minor lits ...
β experimental poetry from @thoushallkill.bsky.social
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β Simon Wortham on Irmagard Keun
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Mine has lasted 30+ years
paying respects
"What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred DΓΆblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagiarism for her second. Banned by the Nazis ..."
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Le Brun
AntΓ³nio Lobo Antunes
RIP
Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism β Simon Wortham
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