On se prend à beaucoup mieux aimer la réalité, parfois, après un très long détour par les rêves.
[We come to love reality much more, sometimes, after a very long detour through dreams.]
Pierre Reverdy, Le livre de mon bord
[We come to love reality much more, sometimes, after a very long detour through dreams.]
Pierre Reverdy, Le livre de mon bord
July 19, 2026 at 7:25 PM
On se prend à beaucoup mieux aimer la réalité, parfois, après un très long détour par les rêves.
[We come to love reality much more, sometimes, after a very long detour through dreams.]
Pierre Reverdy, Le livre de mon bord
[We come to love reality much more, sometimes, after a very long detour through dreams.]
Pierre Reverdy, Le livre de mon bord
Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.
May 25, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.
They don’t make chapter headings like this anymore. What a book.
![Book IX
More Light, and the Gloom of That Light. More Gloom, and the Light of That Gloom
[Chapter heading in PIERRE]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6ztmhef7soq6s6osfex2tays/bafkreihcotqmasmjvc4mfe2nvijkefeo5acgfd7tmc3fmf7qgj3nsoxfkq)
May 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
They don’t make chapter headings like this anymore. What a book.
In Seattle again, where the bookstores never disappoint me.
March 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
In Seattle again, where the bookstores never disappoint me.
Going through a shelf of little books I came across this Jean Follain chapbook I’d forgotten about.
February 22, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Going through a shelf of little books I came across this Jean Follain chapbook I’d forgotten about.
What excellent books are published by Wakefield Press. Many of these I acquired on my most recent trip to Seattle, Elliott Bay Books being stunningly loaded with them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
What excellent books are published by Wakefield Press. Many of these I acquired on my most recent trip to Seattle, Elliott Bay Books being stunningly loaded with them.
Hiver — verrerie vide
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Hiver — verrerie vide
the wild horse in us
January 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM
the wild horse in us
English version by Simon Watson Taylor
December 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
English version by Simon Watson Taylor
“la roue du devenir”
“the wheel of Fluxion”
“the wheel of Fluxion”
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“la roue du devenir”
“the wheel of Fluxion”
“the wheel of Fluxion”
Noël
(à tréma, comme deux flammes de bougie)
(à tréma, comme deux flammes de bougie)
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Noël
(à tréma, comme deux flammes de bougie)
(à tréma, comme deux flammes de bougie)
Wallace Stevens, from “The Pure Good of Theory”
December 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Wallace Stevens, from “The Pure Good of Theory”
“…no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“…no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot.”
There was a lovely Faber compilation once
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
There was a lovely Faber compilation once
Post a perfect album from 1989
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989
“Maria lit candles in silver-branched candlesticks. They were old candles, and had burned unevenly, so that the flames quivered in the air on either side of their silver stems; like someone balancing with outstretched arms on a rope.”
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Maria lit candles in silver-branched candlesticks. They were old candles, and had burned unevenly, so that the flames quivered in the air on either side of their silver stems; like someone balancing with outstretched arms on a rope.”
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
Trollope is very sound on churches imo —
(maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)
(maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)
September 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Trollope is very sound on churches imo —
(maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)
(maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)
Happy memory time:
Rereading a favorite Ross Thomas novel that bears the bookseller’s label from the long-gone Savile Book Shop in Washington DC.
IFKYK
Rereading a favorite Ross Thomas novel that bears the bookseller’s label from the long-gone Savile Book Shop in Washington DC.
IFKYK
September 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Happy memory time:
Rereading a favorite Ross Thomas novel that bears the bookseller’s label from the long-gone Savile Book Shop in Washington DC.
IFKYK
Rereading a favorite Ross Thomas novel that bears the bookseller’s label from the long-gone Savile Book Shop in Washington DC.
IFKYK
“hollow, tinsel bohemianism and egocentric deformations”
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“hollow, tinsel bohemianism and egocentric deformations”
Saturday morning music
Oh, true love can conquer hate every time
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime
And my darling, one more thing
If you let me, I will take you
To live where love is king
Oh, true love can conquer hate every time
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime
And my darling, one more thing
If you let me, I will take you
To live where love is king
August 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Saturday morning music
Oh, true love can conquer hate every time
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime
And my darling, one more thing
If you let me, I will take you
To live where love is king
Oh, true love can conquer hate every time
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime
And my darling, one more thing
If you let me, I will take you
To live where love is king