In A Jar

Un giovane dinosauro

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A poetry comic for a rainy Saturday from my book THE SHAPE OF IDEAS 🌨

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Sharp Pins @ Largo Venue, 20.02.2026, sottotitolo: come deve essere la musica rock.

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Poetry Comics Month, Day 29

Happy holiday reading!

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Edward Gorey's wonderfully odd Christmas illustration

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“His thinking wasn’t logical. But whatever the philosophers claimed, the main use of logic was to justify your emotions.”

Philip José Farmer, “The Fabulous Riverboat” (Riverworld #2), ch. 22

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“A humorist is a man whose soul is black, black, but who turns his curdles of darkness into explosions of light. But when the light dies out, the black returns.”

Sam Clemens in Philip José Farmer, "The Fabulous Riverboat" (Riverworld #2), ch. 8

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“It was as if her face already carried the injuries of an appalling motor-car accident that would happen somewhere in the future.”

–J.G. Ballard, “The Drought” (ch. 7, "The Face"; 1965)

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‘I’ve always thought of the whole of life as a kind of disaster area.’

Dr. Charles Ransom, in J.G. Ballard, “The Drought” (ch. 3, "The Fishermen"; 1965)

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‘I thought I was gone be happy for the rest of my life.’ ‘Nobody’s happy for the rest of their lives, Queenie.’

Queenie Strickland & James Caskey, in Michael McDowell, "The Levee" (Blackwater #2; ch. "Queenie and James")

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“Io mi difendo bevendo. Altrimenti, sarei già al manicomio. Contro le scelleratezze del mondo, un uomo onesto si difende bevendo.”

Tenente colonnello Abbati, 301° fanteria, in Emilio Lussu, "Un anno sull'Altipiano" (cap. iv)

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'Bats' by Edward Gorey

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The Kafka Diaries

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“Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”

Mr. Ambrayses, in M. John Harrison, “A Young Man's Journey to Viricoinum”

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Bernardo Zannoni, "I miei stupidi intenti" (2021, Sellerio)

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“A pensarci bene, un uovo al tegame non è che un tegame alla Bismarck.”

—Carl’Alberto, in Achille Campanile, “Ma che cosa è questo amore?” (cap. II)

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“L’uomo è come un romanzo: fino all’ultima pagina non sai come finisce. Altrimenti non varrebbe la pena di leggere…”

I-330, in Evgénij I. Zamjàtin, "Noi" (Nota Ventottesima) (trad. di Ettore Lo Gatto).

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“Diffidate sempre della natura. Non è mai semplice. Non è mai naturale.”

Dadhyañc, in Roberto Calasso, “Ka”, cap. IX (1996)