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non-profit - supports free e-literature and Project Gutenberg (producing e-books) - back online soon + free edu worldwide (Mooc's etc.) (also: @gutenberg_org)

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Indeed! ❤️ nitter.gq/markonfire/status/9337… – at Miami, FL
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FreeLiterature@FreeLitOrg5 Nov 2017
Digitizing for @gutenberg_org Balzac's Contes drolatiques in 2 vols. - Ill. A. Robida Droll Stories, Ill. G. Doré gutenberg.org/ebooks/13260
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FreeLiterature@FreeLitOrg9 Nov 2017
Digitizing for @gutenberg_org Three Good Giants whose famous deeds are recorded in the ancient chronicles of François Rabelais compiled from the French by John Dimitry - illustrated by Gustave Doré & Albert Robida proofers welcome!
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FreeLiterature@FreeLitOrg9 Nov 2017
Digitizing for @gutenberg_org Tales from Gorky tr. R. Nisbet Bain (In the Steppe, Chelkash....) The Invaders and other stories by Count Lyoff Tolstoï tr. Nathan Haskell Dole (great to try out proofreading!)
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In this episode of A Phone Call From Paul, @holdengraber talks to writer and historian Simon Winchester about how Jan Morris changed his life. ow.ly/dtPB30gL3ZW
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Peter Singer@PeterSinger22 Nov 2017
What would you do with the $450 million spent last week on Leonardo's Salvator Mundi? Here are my views, and those of 5 others: artsy.net/article/artsy-edit…

How Would You Donate $450 Million? Six Leaders Weigh In

After last week’s recording-breaking sale of a Leonardo da Vinci painting, Artsy asked a range of leadersdevelopment how they’d spend $450 million.

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"The eyes of others are our prisons; their thoughts are our cages." Woolf
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Magda Kapa@MagdaKapa16 Nov 2017
This is a famous play I’ve come to watch, the night staring, the winter behind the curtains waiting to perform. I know his lines. I’ve written them last fall.
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Gallica BnF@GallicaBnF22 Nov 2017
Hommes des cavernes / Cavemen Le Secret de l'histoire naturelle, France, ca. 1480-1485 => c.bnf.fr/grc @discarding_imgs #cmdunjour de @GallicaBnF !
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Mark O’Connell@mrkocnnll22 Nov 2017
Shout out to New Zealand for doggedly persisting in naming stuff after mountains despite the potential deal-breaking confusion of doing so
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New: Open-access books are downloaded, cited, and mentioned more than non-OA books ow.ly/urYa30gK7A8
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Magda Kapa@MagdaKapa16 Nov 2017
The midnight breathes through the heating pipes. That, and the ladies above who have a late chat in the kitchen. I got nothing. Nothing to say. I listen to breaths and voices.
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Your room is not your prison. You are.
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Ticia Verveer@ticiaverveer21 Nov 2017
This is the first early Ptolemaic fragment of the Odyssey ever discovered. It contains three lines from Book 20 that do not occur in the standard text preserved today, and is a physical testimony to the fact that local variations of this famous work existed in the 3rd century BC
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Rime! Both Michelangelo's and Petrarca's are available for a round of proofing... let know!
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Rene Magritte, born on this day, in 1898 The initial reaction from the press to Magritte’s 1928-29 painting, ‘This Is Not A Pipe,’ was ‘This is not an imbecile.’
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Milosz, Zagajewski & other Polish poets fled westward but Ryszard Krynicki stayed & paid the price. His MAGNETIC POINT: SELECTED POEMS 1969-2014 trans by Clare Cavanagh pubs today @NewDirections. My commentary: bit.ly/2zIVGN5
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Le 21 novembre 1898 naissait le #peintre René #Magritte #Bruxelles #surréalisme #documentaire #Belgique franceculture.fr/emissions/u…
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Understanding Heidegger on Technology: thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
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FreeLiterature@FreeLitOrg30 Oct 2017
Todas las artes aspiran a la condición de la música: posiblemente, porque en la música la forma se confunde con el fondo Jorge Luis Borges
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