This must have been quite the crash, if it projected them both all the way to Iceland.

Grateful for the replies this: thank you all. It seems the phrase means either 'forever alone' or 'P U S S Y ^ I N ^ BIO'. Thank you, Xitter.

#VictorHugo ’s ‘Châtiments’ (1853) by Adam Roberts:

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Ursine Welles

With spuds I have boiled em, mashed em, stuck em in a stew. It's worked out pretty well, except that I have to pronounce the name Poh! Tay! Toes! and my family mock me.

Eiger, Eiger, burning bright
In thy chilly Alpine height
What immortal hand or eye
Dare scale thy peak’s immensity?

On Mark the Golden, and on pomp. medium.com/adams-notebook…

Freddy Mercury and Pete Townshend buy a country house to live in, together.

This novella from Adam Roberts was a fun read. As Alan Jacobs put it, 'Think: Mission: Impossible on Mars. Brilliant.' Feels like a screenplay.

Priced ($1) to sell, on Kindle, unfortunately not Apple Books.

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As a summary of 'War Horse' I feel this lacks a certain nuance.

A very interesting and I think under-appreciated novel. anthonyburgessblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/nothin…

Oh no! How will it grind its grain and corn now??

We're hiring at RHUL English: a 3-year fixed-term full-time post to teach Children's Literature, and other things. The job is teaching-focused, based at Egham. Join us! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

On Kant's 300th birthday, I recommend this cosmic horror, first contact science-fiction novel set on a remote research station. Both inspired by Kant and featuring a character obsessed with Kant's work, it is one of my favorites.

They're gonna need a bigger boat.

Next: Adam Phillips' memoir of how he gifts Peter Gabriel albums to all his friends, every birthday and Christmas.

This is an amazing, brilliant book. I can't recommend it highly enough.

For Shakespeare's birthday, here's my blog on one of his lost sonnets. medium.com/adams-notebook…