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Halfway through my 6th read of A Confederacy of Dunces, & this book continues to delight me. It's still fresh, still original, & the dialogue remains, and always will be, absolute rocket fuel.

(Art by Júlia Sardà)

Got the end of 'Ithaca,' the ugly duckling, stuck in my head on Bloomsday:

When?

Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

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Art by Richard Hamilton

Feeling nostalgic about Android: Netrunner, now that it's going away. Deep, deep game, with some of the most amazing card art in the biz. Taught me that mechanics and visuals should work together to tell stories as you play, because all great games tell great stories.

Today, I discovered Yellow Magic Orchestra

The Tikbalang is shapeshifter, miscreant, & tobacco aficionado in Philippine folklore. It has the body of a man, head & hooves of a horse, & strangely long limbs. Tikbalang misleads victims deep into the wilds, but wearing your shirt inside out can repel it.
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Keukegen: a rare, reclusive creature that lives in damp & forgotten corners of Japanese homes. Its doglike & stubby form is covered in dirty matted black hair. The keukegen's mere presence in a house causes those living around it to get sick.
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Julie d'Aubigny, famed fencer & opera singer. She roamed France, teaching fencing and winning fights, & broke the Paris ban on duels thrice in one night, when she fought & defeated three noblemen at once after they took issue with her kissing a woman at a ball.
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Damballah, oldest of the Haitian loa. A serpent with 7000 coils, Damballah shaped the earth & brings the rain. He's wise, but doesn't speak human tongues, & so communicates through whistling. Don't smoke near his altars.
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Athenians built a temple for Agnostos Theos, or the Unknown God, who represented all the deities whose names were lost or never known. Offerings made here aimed to prevent these forgotten beings from becoming upset at their neglect.
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Loviatar, blind Finnish goddess of disease. Her nine children are all deadly illnesses: Colic, Pleurisy, Fever, Ulcer, Plague, Consumption, Sterility & Cancer. But even Loviatar couldn't bear the presence of the nameless ninth child, & so she banished it.
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