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  Recherché.

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  It’s the worst. The dismally singular way it feels to read Evelyn Waugh. In the spaces between the narrative he will take these pauses, aching and hypnotic and elegant, and in each one it feels like my body is drawing in this brume of incredulous, weeping gratitude for everything beautiful in the world, and it [...]

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• RT @menergy: Spot the partyboat. http://t.co/I3X1FOaq 2 hours ago
• so get off my phone. 5 hours ago
• for my birthday, i'm giving myself free reign to talk to everyone as if i'm bob grant and the world is one mediocre, sputtering democrat. 5 hours ago
• @EmersonBreneman: also I don't think it was understated at all now that I think about it, just ssssssensitive. 6 hours ago
• @EmersonBreneman: right? the teenage fanclub jam? AND VERUCA SALT? YOU KNOW HOW I LOVE LOU POST. 6 hours ago
• @emersonbreneman: on the other hand sincerely, what the fuck do i know since my top five movies are all blake edwards. 6 hours ago
• @EmersonBreneman: agree; if you boiled the bones of bad writing, you'd come out with a criminal confusion of nuance, subtlety, and vapidity. 6 hours ago
• @EmersonBreneman: it's like king of comedy gone sweet valley high. haunting. 7 hours ago

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