Paul Lynch
@paullynchwriter
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Irish novelist: Five novels including PROPHET SONG, winner of the Booker Prize 2023. Distinguished Writing Fellow at Maynooth University. Member of @Aosd ána
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Some news: I am excited to announce that I will be joining Maynooth University as Distinguished Writing Fellow where I will be teaching on the MA in Creative Writing. I’m thrilled to be a part of this writing program alongside a team of brilliant colleagues…
Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch appointed Distinguished Writing Fellow ✍️
Maynooth University is delighted to announce that 2023 Booker Prize Winner
@paullynchwriter
has been appointed Maynooth University Distinguished Writing Fellow.
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This is Juliet Mabey (
@Jule9
), my editor and publisher. Since 2009, when she started publishing fiction at
@OneworldNews
, she has published three Booker Prize-winning novels. LEGEND.
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That moment when you’ve done 60 interview since 26 November and now they want you to sign 2,000 books in one sitting. Thank you
@WaterstonesPicc
(For the record, it took 1hr, 25min) with a team of four.
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This is a wondrous moment for me and I'm so pleased to be sharing it with these superb writers including my friend Paul Murray. Seamus Heaney wrote in North: "Expect aurora borealis in the long foray..." Last night, there was light in the sky.
#BookerPrize2023
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I have been receiving a lot of requests for signed copies of
#ProphetSong
. Do not fear. I shall be at the mighty
@chaptersbooks
in Dublin this Friday at 5pm armed with a pen. Might see you there.
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Wowsers. The Booker Dozen! What an honour. Congrats to my fellow Irish nominees...
‘All 13 novels cast new light on what it means to exist in our time.’
We are delighted to reveal the
#BookerPrize2023
longlist. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. 🎉
Find out more:
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Well, helloooo. Paul Murray and I meet HM The Queen at Clarence House yesterday morning while the Third Paul (Harding) lurks in the background
@TheBookerPrizes
@OneworldNews
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Thrilled to learn that Prophet Song has been shortlisted for a major European award, Italy’s Strega European Prize. I doff my cap to my formidable translator Riccardo Duranti, with thanks to my publisher
@66thand2nd
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Jaysus! Full-page, lead fiction review for PROPHET SONG in today's
@guardian
.
#BookerPrize
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This is the knee-trembling view from the stage yesterday at the sold-out, 1,000-seater
@TheBookerPrizes
shortlist event at Cheltenham Literary Festival
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I am now entering into a publishing window of shameless self-promotion. Apparently the book is already in some Irish shops...
'I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years... The comparisons are inevitable – Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy – but this novel will stand entirely on its own.' Colum McCann
Pre-order Prophet Song by
@paullynchwriter
now
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I wonder if I have coined a new term in my essay for
@TheBookerPrizes
— 'On Cosmic Realism: Melville, Dostoyevsky, Conrad and Faulkner form an echoing conversation across time’
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I will be making my BBC Radio 4 debut this evening on
@BBCFrontRow
where I'll be talking about... well, you probably know what I'm going to be talking about
@TheBookerPrizes
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I have just learned that the towering ziggurat of Prophet Song hardbacks I signed for
@KennysBookshop
are already gone. Do not panic. I will sign more. There Will Be Hardback.
Delighted to welcome Booker Prize Longlisted author Paul Lynch back to Kennys this week! Paul kindly signed copies of the soon-to-be-published Prophet Song - order your signed copy now, while stocks last:
#PaulLynch
#IrishWriting
#BookerPrize2023
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I'll be signing stacks of books and putting on my best Grinch face this Friday at 6pm at
@Hodges_Figgis
for their Christmas launch, alongside my dear frenemy Paul Murray and other writers. (Yes, yes, Christmas has started early).
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This! 👇👇👇
We are absolutely thrilled to announce a very special event coming up on Sunday 10th September. We will have not one, but ALL FOUR of the Irish authors longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize here TOGETHER for a reading and book signing ⭐️
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I am thrilled to receive so many incredible blurbs for my new novel Prophet Song, published 7 September by
@OneworldNews
. My great thanks to these writers for reading it. Here is what they have said:
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I have finally been outed as a secret '80s metal guitar noodler. What a pleasure to invite
@edelcoffey
into my home on behalf of
@IrishTimes
.
I spoke to
@TheBookerPrizes
longlisted author
@paullynchwriter
for
@IrishTimes
. ‘The line between the things we take for granted and the moment we lose them, I’ve always been interested in that in my fiction.’
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Ouais! THE BLACK SNOW has won the French booksellers’ award, the Prix Libr’à Nous, for best foreign novel
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THIS! Final artwork for PROPHET SONG has arrived. Coming September 2023. Many thanks to
@OneworldNews
and most especially to genius cover designer (and fellow Dub dweller) Jack Smyth!
@CormacKinsella
@RepforceIreland
@Trewinagency
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This is happening this evening in
@chaptersbooks
. All welcome 👇
It is today!! Please come and join us for a chat about all things books and anything else that catches our fancy!!
Paul Lynch - After Hours
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Greatly looking forward to my event 6.30pm tomorrow at
@RSWestport
where I'll be discussing Prophet Song among other things. A superb line-up over the weekend 👇👇👇👇
All set for
@RSWestport
this weekend.
@JoannaDonnellyL
@cooper_m
@paullynchwriter
@barbarascully
@katrionaos
@colmoregan
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This. With the great Mike McCormack this evening for
@DublinBookFest
and live on
@RTEArena
👇👇👇👇👇👇
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I read the second-half of this book with broken, badly taped glasses so eager was I to finish it. APHASIA is dizzying — a comic howl of pain and a Herzog for our shattered times by way of Bernhard, Krasznahorkai etc
@IneluctableQuak
@OneworldNews
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Two years, one draft and 500 pages later, these are the happiest and saddest two words any novelist can write:
http://t.co/OWPM13U0Qr
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I have been awakened from my five-year Twitter slumber. Thank you
@david_mitchell
!
I finished this exquisite, meticulous, powerful novel by
@paullynchwriter
this afternoon. A fisherman and a youth adrift on the Pacific in a fishing boat. Nothing & everything happens, often at the same time. And what a stylist.
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Few debut novelists have the nerve or the talent to pen a novel like this: THE DUST NEVER SETTLES reads like the lovechild of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Rebecca du Maurier and is a work of extraordinary imagination...
@OneworldNews
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Just arrived: the hardback of my new book. Two years of slavery and pain magicked into something wonderful.
#Shelfie
?
http://t.co/afOwhflErm
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Just arrived — the
@littlebrown
North American hardback of THE BLACK SNOW. Super job
@bradstreet26
http://t.co/qUIZ0fWFdb
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When starting a new novel the first thing to do is to find the book's distinct music. Once you hear its tune, the rest will follow...
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I may have written the shortest damn thing I've ever written (260 words!) for the latest issue of The Cormorant. Thanks to
@mcmonaglewriter
for wielding the big stick...
So proud of
#TheCormorant
Issue 8 guest edited by Alan McMonagle (
@mcmonaglewriter
)with artwork by Aoife Casby (
@aoifecasby13
). Thank you to all the contributors who travelled and read their work. Great night.
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Just saw this great WSJ infographic on How to Read Books More Often, whilst online, avoiding book I should be reading
http://t.co/jCdLy1wgja
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I love how a book bought on a whim & unread 10 years ago is the perfect book for me just now. Books are surprise gifts for your future self
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Back in my idle twenties, Claire Kilroy left us all for dead. But then she went quiet for a decade. The writing career, like life, is a blind and crooked road beset by thorny bushes. You must fight your way step by step. This is what Claire Kilroy’s machete looks like:
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Noun: SHIZZLE
|shi-zul|
Shit light rain, usually during a prolonged, shit Irish summer.
#Ireland
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Gavin Corbett, Donal Ryan, Ciaran Collins and myself, 4.30am, at the Irish Book Awards.
http://t.co/A0wClVJOJz
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Look at these bad boys! The US paperback of Red Sky in Morning is just in the door. Classy job
@littlebrown
http://t.co/ta5mO8Z65u
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@littlebrown
Nightmare. Inferno. Farm. Burning cattle! Wake up!! Sweating. 5am. Eureka!!! Grab phone. Begin typing. Two years later: Book!
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'Literary works are not in competition with one another. The race is run against time, not the winds of public approval' — William Gass
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Everything sounds better in French: Beyond the Sea, published today in France by
@AlbinMichel
, becomes «Au-delà de la mer». (You must whisper it in a French accent). Here's to the 521 books, published all at once, that make up this year's
#Rentr
éeLittéraire in France.
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This is the artwork for next spring's USA release of my second novel THE BLACK SNOW. What a fine job
@littlebrown
http://t.co/OIH59jIrPV
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An appreciation of the witheringly brilliant and out-of-print New Yorker critic Pauline Kael
http://t.co/JISTDGh
via
@PaulineKael
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Here's me (v deep-voice) being filmed by RTE News's
@SineadCrowley
, reading Machado
@BooksUpstairs
for Poetry Day
http://t.co/zPUsGh0WfV
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Here is the stunning artwork for my second novel THE BLACK SNOW, due next summer...
http://t.co/CPjdOA6EIV
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Rob Doyle
@RobDoyle1
(Threshold) on Prophet Song: "The work of a master novelist. Prophet Song is a stunning, midnight vision whose themes are at once ancient and all too timely: fear, complicity, resistance, and what becomes of us when hell rises to our homeland."
@OneworldNews
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@AmericanGwyn
Here is my (near-fine) UK first edition hardcover. A gift to myself for my 40th. Worth every penny...
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Fleur Jaeggy, where’ve you been all my life?
Sentences that are as precise and penetrating as shards of glass.
From Sweet Days of Discipline (
@andothertweets
&
@NewDirections
), translated by Tim Parks
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Road trip to
@AllinghamArts
in Donegal with Donal Ryan. Paying respects to WB at Drumcliffe. Drunkards pass by...
http://t.co/m6xlJovM9L
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Ron Rash calls it "mesmerizing", Philipp Meyer "a brilliant, hypnotic book". Out today in paperback..,
@QuercusBooks
http://t.co/B369CAY9pH
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So what have your pandemic dreams been like?
I explored the nightmare world of covid dreams for
@afdublin
recently as part of Night of Ideas 2021. (Text in English after the French...)
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Out next month: the UK&Irl
@QuercusBooks
paperback of THE BLACK SNOW. Here’s Philipp Meyer trapped inside the artwork
http://t.co/5Oevhos3gZ
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Back in Dublin & really looking forward to talking about THE BLACK SNOW at
@dalkeybookfest
next Saturday with the ever great
@sineadgleeson
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NPR's book critic Alan Cheuse says The Black Snow's prose is so gorgeous, it makes him want to give up writing...
http://t.co/PFtT5hIpYc
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Just found out I am down to the last six for France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. I had not been told until now!
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Book launch reminder: Donal Ryan will be launching my new novel THE BLACK SNOW at
@Hodges_Figgis
6pm tomorrow. Come!
http://t.co/Mj6kKAbbML
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Ron Rash (Serena) on Prophet Song:
"Surely one of the most important novels of this decade."
@OneworldNews
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The Toronto Star: "Lynch's The Black Snow is a fierce and stunning novel written in chiaroscuro"
http://t.co/NeFRogJJIO
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"No one deserves to be killed for writing badly, especially not under the age of twenty" - Bolaño
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It does seem to be that time of year again when one should read Thomas Kinsella's great poem Another September:
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Just saw The Strypes — on Letterman of all places. They have it. They own it. And they know it.
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More than strange to see myself on the RTE news reading a Machado poem. How the fuck did that happen?
#PoetryDayIrl
http://t.co/uK75HHPSOc
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How I wrote that difficult second novel — a piece I wrote for
@Foyles
on THE BLACK SNOW
http://t.co/66WTgUNeeu
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JK Rowling's new book is called THE BLACK SNOW, written under pseudonym "Paul Lynch".
@Siggo
for more breaking news on this
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Here's
@GavinTCorbett
signing copies of his Pynchonesque novel Green Glowing Skull last night
@Hodges_Figgis
http://t.co/PqIRpO9iv1
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I've just watched A Separation again. It just might be a perfect screenplay.
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Christine Dwyer Hickey (The Narrow Land) on Prophet Song: "Deft, subtle and written in strikingly beautiful prose, with this stunning novel Paul Lynch has joined the ranks of Atwood, Orwell and Burgess."
@OneworldNews
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A great pleasure to learn that my novel BEYOND THE SEA has won France's Prix Gens de Mer. Mes remerciements à tous les participants et
@AlbinMichel
!
Paul Lynch, nouveau lauréat du Prix "Gens de Mer" ! ⚓
L’auteur irlandais Paul Lynch reçoit le prix pour son livre "Au-delà de la mer" (
@AlbinMichel
) ;
Ian Manook remporte celui de la Compagnie des Pêches avec "À Islande" (
@EditionsPaulsen
).
👉
#EV2022
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Samantha Harvey (The Western Wind) on Prophet Song: "A monumental novel, prose so flawless and flowing that reading it is akin to being taken up in a wave. You emerge dazed. You remember why fiction matters. It's hard to recall a more powerful novel in recent years"
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@Julia_Blues
And yet we are compelled to do it. Writing has to hurt if it is to be any good.
#LitChat
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Characters are ciphers & narratives are made richer by omission: smart piece on what we see when we read
http://t.co/zI9KbehKrC
@parisreview
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Lots of hard-earned literary wisdom in Matt Haig's 30 things every writer should know:
http://t.co/yRxtBpfzXv
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Word by word. Line by line. Page by page. Headache by headache.
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I love the smell of paperbacks in the morning.... Great job
@QuercusBooks
http://t.co/74NMYAOXxG
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Catholic Ireland's dead and gone... What a great day to be Irish. (I'll bet you wish you were in Dublin)
#YesEquality
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Lisa Harding
@LisaSHarding
(Bright Burning Things) on Prophet Song: "A mesmerising, shattering novel, Prophet Song lingers long after finishing it. A paean to maternal love amidst gathering forces of darkness, Paul Lynch has done something extraordinary. It is a work of wonder."
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Alan McMonagle
@mcmonaglewriter
(Ithaca) on Prophet Song: "Part cautionary-tale; part dystopian-nightmare; part fever dream. Prophet Song takes you to the edge of the chasm and insists that you look down. A masterclass in terror and dread.’
@OneworldNews
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Jonathan Franzen should ask Nell Zink to blurb his new novel
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I've just learned that RED SKY IN MORNING has been nominated for France's Le prix du premier roman... Croissant for breakfast, so...
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I am gutted to hear of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. An actor of real greatness. Peter Bradshaw's appreciation
http://t.co/KWFyBQ4Oi3
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Sara Baume (Spill Simmer Falter Wither) on Prophet Song:
‘Gripping and chilling, and terribly prescient - a novel with a darkly important message about this particular moment in time.'
@OneworldNews
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Ireland Literature Exchange is bringing out a second Irish Writers postcards series, including one of me. Here it is!
http://t.co/0Fg4I86xpS
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Today's
@IrishTimes
has an ad for Ryanair as part of its embedded video clip of the Taiwan jet crash and the music is "Get Down on It"!
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Wonderful new flipbook extract of THE BLACK SNOW, my new book out this March. Have a look here:
http://t.co/xayEGlNK4W
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My French editor just sent this along: a round-up (in English) of what the French press said about RED SKY IN MORNING
http://t.co/zNfNcucrOM
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http://t.co/MI7c9qBgs1
has picked THE BLACK SNOW as one of their Best Books of May 2015... 11 days to
@littlebrown
publication
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This is what happens when chaos strikes the signing tent
@LivreSurQuais
and Philipp Meyer pretends to be Paul Lynch
http://t.co/sGQ3NyEudA
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Just signed a mountain of THE BLACK SNOW hardbacks at
@gutterbookshop
. Each one uniquely marked with my odd hieroglyph.
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Daniel Woodrell's The Maid's Version is a book woven of the threads of hurt and loss that bind over time. It's a dazzling, masterly weave
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Didn't Yeats leave a great body of work? Who needs a missing skeleton!
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Just found this: every scene of The Black Snow written out on card. Months were spent with them all over the floor
http://t.co/TvLnXzmudL
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Da Vinci had a simple motto that is useful for redrafting. "Ostinato Rigore!". Translated this means: "Keep your ass on the fucking seat".
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American author friend's first impression of the Luas: "Why isn't there anyone on this tram reading books?"
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