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Nick Kunkel
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Nick Kunkel
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Former LSU Swimmer; Current Attorney. The sun’s not yellow, it's chicken.
Baton Rouge Katılım Eylül 2010
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@malmesburyman The Rabbit Trilogy or at least Rabbit, Run by Updike. It is the essential postwar American novel bar none.
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I want to read an American postwar novel of high literary merit and I really don’t want to hear that I should read Cormac Macarthy. What should I read?
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@Empty_America @malmesburyman Genuinely not sure how anyone could read the first, like, 10 pages of The Recognitions and not be immediately convinced of its literary merit
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@malmesburyman I'm reading "The Recognitions" by William Gladdis.
It's sort of the prototypical overly long post war novel that purports to have great literary merit.
I'm not yet sure whether it does have such merit.
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@sjryanwriter @malmesburyman This is true if you have a baby brain and stopped trying to expand your horizons once you reached high school
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@malmesburyman Michael Crichton novels are about intelligent people acting smart, engaged in deep ethical and philosophical issues. Tagged 'low brow.'
'Literary Masterpiece': Idiot acts stupid, fails in life. Deepest thoughts are, "How do I poke that underage girl? God, I need a drink."
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@MoviePrograms I am curious if Vonnegut still holds up. I liked him years ago.
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@Chrome_Tzitzit @malmesburyman Underworld came after IJ and is far superior
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@malmesburyman Infinite Jest is the last Great American Novel. It's a masterpiece. Don't buy the BS from people who critique it; most of them never read it. Most people never read it. It is incredible.
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@risucci_rick lol he's a college hitter - from the SEC at that - running a 31% K rate (and, even worse, 63% contact) in low-a. Probably not a top 500 prospect in baseball
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And the #yankees have yet another Infield Prospect to watch:
George Lombard Jr
Dax Kilby
Kaeden Kent
Core Jackson
& Now Jackson Lovich
YankeesFarm@YankeesFarm
🚨Jackson Lovich hits a 3-Run HR (7))! (Now homered in 3 straight!) #RepBx #Yankees
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I mean not great but lmao the throwing motions on those chairs is straight out of a bugs bunny cartoon 🤣😭 looks like bugs winding up to smash Elmer Fudd with an oversized mallet
Katelyn Caralle@Katelyn_Caralle
Bystanders (including young children) get cornered as teens break out into a violent altercation at the Navy Yard Chipotle in SE Washington, DC.
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@kileymcd @TylerJennings24 I gotcha - just threw me because it appears as a contrast to the immediately preceding paragraph where you mention orgs that had pursued contact-over-power guys who get value from their defense. Had me running to tre’s FG page to see if I’d missed some major development 🤣
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@NickKunkel @TylerJennings24 Eh fair I meant more corner guys generally, but got more specific and he’s obv not power first
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The first post from our new draft blog!
I explain how scouting+development have merged, how that changes draft boards & undervalued demographics.
Scout that read it: "This is without question the most accurate description of what a draft process is now." espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…
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Nick Kunkel retweetledi
Have been thinking about this a lot, specifically in the context of Yesteryear, the reaction to which strongly suggests that people no longer understand the difference between satirizing something and just being wildly contemptuous of it
Alex Perez@Perez_Writes
This has gotten so much worse in the last few years. You write something that's clearly absurd and literary people don't get it. Forget people who don't read. Irony, absurdity, only 15 people will understand in a few years. Humor, gone.
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@AmericanGwyn The bus-driver was whistling, perhaps in anticipation of his wife, who would be a woman of ample breasts, those of a realized maturity.
What makes Iago evil? some people ask. I never ask.
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@AmericanGwyn Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at that critical moment it presumes itself as reality.
Money…?
Stately plump buck mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed.
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“Your father picks you up from prison in a stolen Dodge Neon with an eight-ball of coke in the glove compartment and a hooker named Mandy in the backseat.”—Dennis Lehane, “Until Gwen
The Book Land@the_book_land
Excluding the Bible, what are your favourite opening lines of a book (of any kind)?
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@davo_arid @AmericanGwyn Idk what this is but it’s certainly not good
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@ringdottaylor @AmericanGwyn LOTTA space between “good good” and “Moby dick good” lol basically nothing is Moby Dick-level good.
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@AmericanGwyn is Melville's poetry good good—like MD-level good? i've had the Complete volume from LoA for a while but not cracked it
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Most influential poets on me, personally:
T.S. Eliot
Wallace Stevens
Shakespeare
W.B. Yeats
John Berryman
Rainer Maria Rilke
Denis Johnson
Mark Strand
Whitman
the Beowulf Poet
B.H. Fairchild
Milton
C.K. Williams
Robert Frost
James Dickey
Melville
Jerry Williams
C. Sandbatch (Best Selling Poet)@CSandbatch
Most influential poets, on me, personally. No numbers. King David St. Augustine (redacted) John Donne Andrew Marvell William Blake Henry Timod John Gould Fletcher John Crowe Ransom Jack Keroac Townes van Zandt Bob Dylan
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