The Loar Axe

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I got into this HVAC game for the action.

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The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· 23d

"His titles are, in reality, nothing but sub-titles. The real title of each and every one of his books is Melville, Melville, Melville, again Melville, always Melville."

Passage from Jean Giono's "Melville: A Novel":
But you can really only classify him under his name He's no more a writer "of the sea" than others are writers "of the soil." He's Melville, Herman Melville. The world whose images he puts into words, it's the Melvillean world. And anything beyond that, praise be to God!

If there's a consistency in his work, it can only be his distinctive style. His titles are, in reality, nothing but sub- titles. The real title of each and every one of his books is Melville, Melville, Melville, again Melville, always Melville. I express myself; I'm incapable of expressing any being other than myself. I'm not obliged to create what other people want me to create. I don't get caught up in the law of supply and demand. I create what I am. What I am is a poet.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· 24d

Imagine you're commuting to work on the ferry and then Walt Whitman stands up and screams "SHOWTIME SHOWTIME!!" before reciting Shakespeare for everyone.

Picture of page from David Reynolds's book "Walt Whitman":
In several senses, Whitman himself was an actor, in daily life and in his poetry. "I have always had a good deal to do with ac- tors: met many, high and low," he said." Obviously they shared trade secrets with him. Not only did he declaim passages from plays on the streets and at the seashore, but he took pride in subtle- ties of interpretation. Thomas A. Gere, an East River ferry cap- tain, recalled that he would regale passengers with Shakespearian soliloquies, stop himself in the middle and say "No! no! no! that's the way bad actors would do it," and then begin again. "In my judgment," Gere said, "few could excel his reading of stirring poems and brilliant Shakespearian passages."8 His "spouting" of loud Shakespeare passages on the New York omnibuses reflected his participation in the zestful turbulence of American

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· 26d

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· 27d

Easiest litmus test for "Great Books" dorks is asking whether Angels in America counts.

It's a paperback of Tony Kushner's Angels in America

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· 28d

St. John's College campus tour guide: "We've got both kinds of fluent Ancient Greek speakers: tweedy gays AND homeschooled christians!"

blues brothers lady who has both kinds of music

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· 28d

Penguin found the Ideal Form of a cover for Leaves of Grass in 1985.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· Jul 13

Just found a new good'un: the Marquis de Lafayette was kissing babies at a Brooklyn 4th of July event, and one of those babies was Walt Whitman.

Picture of a page from David S. Reynolds's "Walt Whitman":

Among the Brooklyn experiences that stood out in his memory was the visit on July 4, 1825, of the great Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, who came to be present at the laying of the cornerstone of a library at the intersection of Cranberry and Henry Streets. Walt, six at the time, later claimed that Lafayette had picked up several children, including himself, lifted him high and kissed him on the cheek.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· Jul 13

This sounds like a college sketch group couldn't figure out how to end the scene.

Picture of a page in Moller's "The Map of Knowledge" which reads:
Many strange and wonderful sto ries have evolved about Michael Scot, for the most part based on his fame as an astrologer-a profession that teetered on the edge of acceptability, esteemed and depended on by secular rulers, but periodically denounced and demonized by the Church. Legend has it that he predicted his own death from a blow to the head by a fall- ing stone. In order to avoid this fate, he constructed a metal helmet, which he wore at all times, but unfortunately it did not protect him when a piece of masonry fell from the ceiling of a church when he was attending mass, killing him instantly.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· Jun 20

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The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· Jun 2

I refuse to believe that a team with LeBron, Giannis, and Wilt loses 6 games.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 30

16 years late to this, but Rory Kinnear makes a pretty good Hamlet.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 30

Ah jeez, now I have a tough decision to make.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 30

Found my new license plate.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 29

Extremely true. Gary Johnson is a genuinely good dude, as far as I could tell. But Austin Peterson is not beating the "libertarians know the age of consent in every state" accusations though.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 27

No thanks, YouTube. This is a Cocktail Party Grindset video and I'm not falling for it.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 27

Coworker: got any fun vacation plans coming up? Me:

Cover of A Month in the Country by JL Carr, published by NYRB

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 17

The Unincorporated Man kinda-sorta covers this. Our hero is The One Rich Guy who managed to transfer generational wealth into the future to himself.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 16

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 15

The CIA is preparing for regime change. We have an Ayatollah at home.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 15

Seattle is a beautiful city.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 15

Tough to imagine a better modern Falstaff than Roger Allam.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 15

Baby Data

Brent Spiner with a perfectly smooth face

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 15

Sunday in the Park with George is a holodeck episode of Star Trek TNG.

Brent Spiner lounging in Sunday in the Park with George

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 11

Never fix your broken app, Wikipedia. It's beautiful.

Picture of Walt Whitman, author of Leaves of Grass, over the Wikipedia article for Glyphosate, an herbicide.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 10

I did not know that could happen.

Osmond was born with a rare, benign congenital
condition known as situs inversus, where some of
the body's major organs, such as the heart, are
situated on the opposite side of the body from
where they would normally be located. 5]

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 10

Enough time has passed that we can all unironically embrace this stupid direct-to-vhs movie. Donny Osmond was born to play Joseph, and the entire visual style & production design nailed the (low-budget) brief.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 8

if Rami Malek can play Freddie Mercury, he can play Young Tom Stoppard. studios are cowards.

The Loar Axe@theloaraxe· May 4

The most medieval cookbook-coded pop tart is the giant pop tart that does a song and dance for the star athletes before being devoured banquet style in a larger-than-life preparation.