Just announcing to the whole wide world. If anyone wants to employ me to teach them English, I'm game, whatever your level, but you'll have to be quick, I'm running out of time slots.
And another favourite opening line.
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!"
Favourite opening lines of books.
“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”
nostr:npub15a6un47u35drs89872d3hmwm80lk2y54zgucwz4xgusnsqjdrxcsq4v53z Perhaps you repressed the memory?
It's Un Chien Andalou by Louis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. Only 27 minutes, but a wild ride nonetheless.
Excellent interview with Robert Fripp about Toyah's and his Sunday lunch escapades. He really is one of a kind.
#NowPlaying Nurse With Wound - "Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella"
An extraordinary album. A dadaist masterpiece. No, you haven't heard anything like this before. Pin back your ears and revel in it.
Invisible Cities
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller…
The Bridge
Lanark
The War Of The End Of The World
Calling Bullshit
The Universal Translator
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English
The English Verb
Le Mort D'Arthur
Faerie Queene
The Good Soldier Schweik
I feel like a Big Boy today. Just sent out my first two VAT invoices!
nostr:npub1yxz2r8xwr4q7t220k3m26a7pxnz2wq0mygtjeqln2w7yc0jz6nts9k6s8m Thankfully down to 27%. All the best for the day.
nostr:npub1xxhrfrzkvk8c5lg53aqqp42wlalc2v2jnucwrahkuxwkaxdjm2rstjg8qg Yes indeed. And not too hot either. And best wishes to you too!
Arrrgh! Today's lesson has just cancelled. Ah well, at least I get paid for it.
nostr:npub1pesrvenzwcp3p6mu3qn9vn5wgn4r45wcsnu44ytdwt8y3l8k089sc80vfa My mum, bless her, hated sprouts with a passion, but she still always cooked them for us for C*******s.
nostr:npub1yxz2r8xwr4q7t220k3m26a7pxnz2wq0mygtjeqln2w7yc0jz6nts9k6s8m especially this ornate letter ලා
nostr:npub1qy53t5xgt2vl99rwss9uhenll6d79va6xw9hclfgw0m7e2lkf3eq2cqq3x Oh nice. It was the rounded shape of the characters that I remembered.
nostr:npub1qy53t5xgt2vl99rwss9uhenll6d79va6xw9hclfgw0m7e2lkf3eq2cqq3x Did you recognise the script too? That's how I got it.
Expert!
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Morning Fediverse.
#KrakówSmog
11°C
Sunny
Pollution 27%
I have precisely zero time for Phil Collins' solo career. Never want to hear any of it again. Ever. Astonishingly hateable.
Traveller
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OK, so I've limited my Twitter use to conversing with a few friends who haven't moved elsewhere yet. Ignoring the Home TL completely and posting here or BlueSky or t2, or occasionally all 3.
And one more time for the crowd, FUCK this X shit.