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The Sad Butler Movie Index
(If the Butler Movie breaks on the side of emphasizing dignity, it’s sad; if it breaks on the side of emphasizing hauteur, it’s happy.)
 • Daniel Lavery
The platonic equivalent of r/deadbedrooms and friendship crop rotation
"This creates its own problem when all your friends have known you for the same length of time, like how farmers need to practice crop rotation or else…
 • Daniel Lavery
Signs You're A Doctor In A Midcentury Novel
“Have you still got those yellow pills I gave you?” “Your father’s heart is weak. You must never tell him this; it would weaken his heart.” “The best…
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Everything Beebo Brinker Eats and Drinks in the 1962 Lesbian Pulp Classic "Beebo Brinker"
You'd never guess how many times Beebo Brinker defiantly drinks milk in the lesbian pulp fiction "Beebo Brinker" Chronicles.
 • Daniel Lavery
They Got Me At Last. I Became A Cyclist
“I’m just like you,” I want to say, instead of “On your left.” This isn’t who I am, not really. It’s not the wheels, but the feet that matter.
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A Biblical Exegesis of P.D. Eastman's "Go, Dog, Go"
"Work, dogs, work!" Exodus 5:9: “Let more work be laid on them, that they may labor in it.”
 • Daniel Lavery
What Every Non-Fiction Book Is Called Now
we all remember the “tiny things we know to be small” title crisis of 2022 but we ought not overlook nonfiction titles like
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