“Heck, Herman Melville wrote a whole novel about how whales were fish and anyone who thought they were mammals was a total dickhead, and nobody cares now that Melville turned out to be a dumbshit.”
@faceyouhate.bsky.social made me actually lol with this one.
"Blubt!" - The Flaming Carrot
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My new Reading Project post for paid subscribers is up! I talk about THE CONJURE-MAN DIES, Rudolph Fisher's Harlem Renaissance novel of murder and mysticism, and Penelope Fitzgerald's BBC-during-the-Blitz drama HUMAN VOICES. A natural pairing in my opinion.
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On "The Conjure-Man Dies" by Rudolph Fisher, and "Human Voices" by Penelope Fitzgerald
