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She's a real sad tomato

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"Most people think all bats are ugly, so I didn't take the report very seriously at first, but when they sent photos, we realized that these animals were wrinkle-faced bats, Centurio senex, an incredible find," Rodríguez said.

First sightings of lek and courtship behavior in wrinkle-faced bats

Wrinkle-faced bats not only have the most convoluted faces of any bat species, the males also have a flap of furry white skin they can pull

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The pleasure of this is almost immediately cancelled by the arrival of a sentence twice as long and soon losing not only the will to live but the right to be read. These are not long sentences, purring and humming, those magnificent oceangoing structures launched by James or Mann or Proust: they are sentences that have forgotten to stop. Anyone who has seen elderly, broken-backed dachshunds being walked in parks with rollerskates supporting their middles will get the picture, but there are no rollerskates here.

Adam Mars-Jones, reviewing Joseph O’Neill

(h/t @excitedstoat)

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duckling riding duck

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She was a guard at the prison in which James Brown / Was briefly imprisoned. There had been broken man-made laws, / A car chase melee, a roadblock of troopers in sunblock.

Terrance Hayes, “How to Be Drawn to Trouble”

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That’s Alan on the right.

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Tokyo just trashed plans to build a $2.1 billion Zaha Hadid-designed stadium that’s been likened to “a raw oyster oozing out” and “a turtle waiting for Japan to sink so it can swim away.

ESPN (via 30prufrock)

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Dove, Interrupted

Don’t do that when you’re dead like this, I said,

Arguably still squabbling about the word inarguably.

I haunt Versailles, poring through the markets of the medieval.

Mostly meat to be sold there. Mutton hangs

Like laundry pinkened on its line.

          And gold!—a chalice with a cure for living in it.

We step over the skirt of an Elizabeth.

Red grapes, a delicacy, each peeled for us—each sheath

The vestment of a miniature priest, disrobed.

A sister is an Old World sparrow placed in a satin shoe.

The weakling’s saddle is worn down from just too much sad attitude.

No one wants to face the “opaque reality” of herself.

                                                                         For the life of me.

I was made American. You must consider this.

Whatever suffering is insufferable is punishable by perishable.

In Vienne, the rabbit Maurice is at home in the family cage.

I ache for him, his boredom and his solitude.

On suffering and animals, inarguably, they do.

                                                             I miss your heart, my heart.

[theparisreview]

Cats read too. #ReadEverywhere

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Ralph Roister Doister is famous!

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In our house the liquor is kept in the bathroom closet between the Draino [sic] and the plunger, and you don’t get any unless you are about dead. The last time I had any was when I dropped the side of the chicken brooder on my foot and broke my toe.

Flannery O’Connor, letter to Robert Lowell (via 30prufrock)