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[?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
@dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

Free Lunch by Rex Ogle

This book is writte for every kid, whether they pay for their lunch or not.

Alt...This book is writte for every kid, whether they pay for their lunch or not.

    [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
    @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

    To vex the world. Jonathan Swift’s Frustrated Humor

    On the three-hundredth anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, Swift’s satire of his own society is remarkably relevant.

    by Henry Oliver

    commonreader.co.uk/p/to-vex-th

    Gulliver’s Travels available in several languages at PG:
    gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q

    Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World Author: Jonathan Swift The cover features a classic illustration of the giant Gulliver pinned to the ground by Lilliputians. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html

    Alt... Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World Author: Jonathan Swift The cover features a classic illustration of the giant Gulliver pinned to the ground by Lilliputians. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html

      [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
      @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

      Avignon as Threat: How a Medieval Myth Became a Modern Weapon

      For centuries, the Avignon Papacy has been portrayed as a period of corruption, weakness, and French domination over the medieval Church. But a modern political controversy involving the Pentagon and the Vatican has revealed how this powerful historical myth still shapes public perceptions today.

      By Joëlle Rollo-Koster

      medievalists.net/2026/05/avign

      Avignon at PG:
      gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q

      Avignon - THE PONT BÉNÉZET. A 19th-century photograph of the Pont Saint-Bénézet (the famous "Pont d'Avignon") in Avignon, southern France, spanning the Rhône River. Only four of its original arches survive. Behind it rise the Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes) and the cathedral. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46035/pg46035-images.html#Page_175

      Alt...Avignon - THE PONT BÉNÉZET. A 19th-century photograph of the Pont Saint-Bénézet (the famous "Pont d'Avignon") in Avignon, southern France, spanning the Rhône River. Only four of its original arches survive. Behind it rise the Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes) and the cathedral. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46035/pg46035-images.html#Page_175

        [?]Kroc Camen » 🌐
        @Kroc@oldbytes.space

        > "But in this particular case, you’re promoting your book. You’re promoting a thing that you wrestled with and won. You’re promoting a thing that dragged you to hell and you dragged back. You’re promoting a successful enterprise in human endeavor. And beyond that, you’re promoting the idea that this beautiful thing you made, these words you ordered, these ideas you successfully put to a page, will resonate with other human beings. You’re promoting your belief that you have made a thing that will fill others with joy, grief, and/or inspiration. You’re promoting the idea of human connection, which we need so badly right now."

        buttondown.com/monteiro/archiv

        I tossed away 25 years of habit pumping out programming projects on the daily so I could knuckle-down to writing Nomad: Wanderer in the because the world is so compelling, so full of detail, and so well suited to the medium that I know it will give you something that is so much more rich in texture and humanity than the endless stream of attention-sapping sound-bites that makes up the majority of reading we do online nowadays.

        There is literally no ulterior motive to the content of this book, unlike a social media feed where often the content -- no matter how positive and uplifting -- is secondary to the farming of views/clicks/ads/data, etc.

        camendesign.com/nomad

        _Please_ consider giving it a brief read, it's free. You will know if it's for you from the first page; the setup of a desert world in a sand-glass the size of Earth is such a ripe environment that I dropped everything I could be doing to flesh it out for you.

          [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
          @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

          Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring by Bassem Youssef

          TO MY DAUGHTER, NADIA—YOU ARE A VERY HARD ACT TO FOLLOW. MY UNBORN CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO COME UP WITH UNTHINKABLE FEATS JUST TO MATCH YOUR LEVEL OF AWESOMENESS. TO MY WIFE—I KNOW YOU DIDN'T EXPECT THIS KIND OF MARRIAGE OR LIFE, BUT HEY... NOT A DULL MOMENT, BABE. WITHOUT YOUR PATIENCE, RESILIENCE, AND SUPPORT I WOULDN'T HAVE AMOUNTED TO ANYTHING. TO MY OLDER BROTHER AND MY FRIEND, TAMER YOUSSEF—YOU ARE ALL THAT IS LEFT AFTER OUR PARENTS DEPARTED THIS WORLD. YOU ARE ALL THAT REMAINS OF AN EGYPT I ONCE KNEW.

          Alt...TO MY DAUGHTER, NADIA—YOU ARE A VERY HARD ACT TO FOLLOW. MY UNBORN CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO COME UP WITH UNTHINKABLE FEATS JUST TO MATCH YOUR LEVEL OF AWESOMENESS. TO MY WIFE—I KNOW YOU DIDN'T EXPECT THIS KIND OF MARRIAGE OR LIFE, BUT HEY... NOT A DULL MOMENT, BABE. WITHOUT YOUR PATIENCE, RESILIENCE, AND SUPPORT I WOULDN'T HAVE AMOUNTED TO ANYTHING. TO MY OLDER BROTHER AND MY FRIEND, TAMER YOUSSEF—YOU ARE ALL THAT IS LEFT AFTER OUR PARENTS DEPARTED THIS WORLD. YOU ARE ALL THAT REMAINS OF AN EGYPT I ONCE KNEW.

            [?]Grenhas Valhalla » 🌐
            @Grenhas@mast.lat


            Autor: ✒️📖✒️
            «¿Sabe cuál es mi enfermedad? La Utopía. ¿Sabe cuál es la suya? La rutina. La Utopía es el porvenir que se esfuerza en nacer. La rutina es el pasado que se obstina en seguir viviendo.»

              [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
              @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

              The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

              For the teachers and principles at P.S. 3, LAB Middle School, Baruch Middle School, and Brooklyn Technical High School, who have devoted their lives to nurturing children, including mine.

              Alt...For the teachers and principles at P.S. 3, LAB Middle School, Baruch Middle School, and Brooklyn Technical High School, who have devoted their lives to nurturing children, including mine.

                [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                @fictograma@mastodon.social

                En "Vidas Prestadas": El sistema intentó clasificarlos: error, anomalía, continuidad no autorizada. Pero algunos seres no regresan para obedecer. Regresan para cambiarlo todo.
                fictograma.com/d/2970-vidas-pr

                  [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                  @fictograma@mastodon.social

                  León no es gris. Gris es Madrid. Sevilla, en cambio, siempre será dorada
                  León es marrón rojizo: como las hojas húmedas de octubre, como el vino derramado en una barra antigua, como la nostalgia cuando empieza a pudrirse
                  fictograma.com/d/2975-la-vida-

                    [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                    @fictograma@mastodon.social

                    Dicen que en las ruinas del antiguo Hospital San Juan de Dios, en Granada, Nicaragua, todavía se escucha por las noches el sonido de varias patas caminando sobre el asfalto.

                    No todos los monstruos llegan para matar.
                    fictograma.com/d/2976-pequenos

                      [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                      @fictograma@mastodon.social

                      En Nazalia, un juego escolar terminó convirtiéndose en el inicio de una pesadilla institucional.
                      “Códigos de Cambios” mezcla distopía, control moral y miedo colectivo en una sociedad donde el castigo importa más que...
                      fictograma.com/d/2977-codigos-

                        [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                        @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                        DRAG LAY. Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons.

                        A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                        --
                        @histodons

                        Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): DRAG LAY. Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                        Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): DRAG LAY. Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                          [?]brosnung » 🌐
                          @Brosnung@mastodon.world

                          quotes from Moments with Mark Twain =>

                          open.substack.com/pub/brosnung

                            [?]Kroc Camen » 🌐
                            @Kroc@oldbytes.space

                            The Best Holmes, the Only Holmes: youtube.com/watch?v=WbeDVlZNOPY

                              [?]Waywords Studio » 🌐
                              @WaywordsStudio@mastodon.social

                              𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆: 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝑾𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈: 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒃𝒂𝒈𝒔, 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, & 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 -

                              Is our intellectual exercise just an expensive lifestyle brand that keeps our hands clean? In this raw, self-interrogating mailbag episode, we turn the lens inward for a vulnerability audit of our own political battles and pedagogical failures.

                              waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/wa

                                [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark

                                For my single mother, who taught me first how to survive the ruins.

                                Alt...For my single mother, who taught me first how to survive the ruins.

                                  [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                  @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                  En "Vidas Prestadas": El sistema intentó clasificarlos: error, anomalía, continuidad no autorizada. Pero algunos seres no regresan para obedecer. Regresan para cambiarlo todo.
                                  fictograma.com/d/2970-vidas-pr

                                    [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                    @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                    El fonógrafo irrumpe en el Berghof y Hans Castorp se enamora. Ya no son las cartas: ahora son noches enteras de música, voces fantasmales y “El Tilo” de Schubert, que le...
                                    fictograma.com/d/2972-la-monta

                                      [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                      @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                      "El retrato de Dorian Gray": Londres dormía bajo la lluvia mientras Dorian Gray corría hacia el olvido. Pero algunos fantasmas saben esperar dieciocho años para cobrarse...

                                      fictograma.com/d/2973-el-retra

                                        [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                        @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                        En "Siddhartha - Parte II, Cap. 6": Siddhartha entra al mundo de los negocios y del placer… pero sin perder su esencia. Aprende a comerciar con Kamaswami, pero...
                                        fictograma.com/d/2974-siddhart

                                          [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                          @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                          León no es gris. Gris es Madrid. Sevilla, en cambio, siempre será dorada
                                          León es marrón rojizo: como las hojas húmedas de octubre, como el vino derramado en una barra
                                          fictograma.com/d/2975-la-vida-

                                            [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                            @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                            Dicen que en las ruinas del antiguo Hospital San Juan de Dios, en Granada, Nicaragua, todavía se escucha por las noches el sonido de varias patas caminando sobre el asfalto.
                                            fictograma.com/d/2976-pequenos

                                              [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                              @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                              En Nazalia, un juego escolar terminó convirtiéndose en el inicio de una pesadilla institucional.
                                              “Códigos de Cambios” mezcla distopía, control moral y miedo colectivo en...
                                              fictograma.com/d/2977-codigos-

                                                [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                Doyle didn’t just write Crime fiction: Alan Brown looks at Arthur Conan Doyle’s “vain, volatile, & brilliant” Scottish adventurer-scientist-explorer-&-dinosaur-hunter, Professor George Edward Challenger…

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                                                reactormag.com/dinosaurs-in-th

                                                  [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                  @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                  After THE LOST WORLD, Challenger’s other adventures include the novels THE POISON BELT and THE LAND OF MIST, & the short stories “The World Screamed” & “The Disintegration Machine”. Alan Brown digs deeper into Doyle’s science fiction

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                                                  reactormag.com/the-further-adv

                                                    [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                    @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                    (Conan Doyle personally preferred Professor Challenger over Sherlock Holmes – even dressing up as the Professor for a photograph of Challenger’s Amazonian expedition)

                                                    8/

                                                    theguardian.com/books/2020/nov

                                                      [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                      @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                      When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?

                                                      9/

                                                      lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/le

                                                        [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                        @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                        In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit”

                                                        10/

                                                        crimereads.com/arthur-conan-do

                                                          [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                          @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                          “think Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’, or Tarantino’s ‘Jackie Brown’, but set in Glasgow”

                                                          The Oscar Slater case also features in Frank Kuppner’s 1989 novel (“of sorts”), A VERY QUIET STREET

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                                                          indelibleinkblog.wordpress.com

                                                            [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                            @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                            The 12 best Sherlock Holmes stories, according to Arthur Conan Doyle – via @literaryhub

                                                            In March 1927, Conan Doyle put together a list of his own top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, sealed it in an envelope, & left it with the editor of the Strand magazine…

                                                            12/

                                                            lithub.com/the-12-best-sherloc

                                                              [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                              @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                              “The Captain of the Polestar”, by Arthur Conan Doyle
                                                              [Being an extract from the singular journal of JOHN M’ALISTER RAY, student of medicine]

                                                              As a Dundee whaling ship becomes trapped in the Arctic, strange cries are heard & a figure is glimpsed on the floes…

                                                              13/

                                                              youtube.com/watch?v=EvcA7uYtv6U

                                                                [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                                @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                                “The Captain of the Polestar” is possibly Doyle’s finest supernatural story – & owes much of its atmosphere to Doyle’s own experiences as a 20-year-old medical student, serving as ship’s surgeon on the Peterhead whaler the SS Hope

                                                                14/

                                                                theguardian.com/books/2012/aug

                                                                  [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                                  @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                                  You can download a free ebook of THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR, & Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle – as well as many other works by the great man – from @gutenberg_org

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                                                                  gutenberg.org/ebooks/294

                                                                    [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                                    @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                                    The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there,
                                                                    And warmly debated the matter;
                                                                    The Orthodox said that it came from the air,
                                                                    And the Heretics said from the platter…

                                                                    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Parable”

                                                                    /fin

                                                                    poetryfoundation.org/poems/462

                                                                    A Parable by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow.

                                                                    Alt...A Parable by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow.

                                                                      [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                                      @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                                                      Glassworks by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

                                                                      For everyone whose story is still in progress

                                                                      Alt...For everyone whose story is still in progress

                                                                        [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                                        @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                                        CFP: James Kelman at 80
                                                                        Spring 2027, University of Glasgow (date tbc)

                                                                        This international conference will consider the living legacy of Kelman’s writing, & his ongoing significance in the cultural & political worlds of the 21st century. Proposals are invited on Kelman’s fiction & its political significance, focusing on any period or aspect of Kelman’s work.

                                                                        Submissions deadline: 30 June 2026

                                                                        @litstudies

                                                                        call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/

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