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David Marriott

@davidmarriott.bsky.social

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇳🇨🇮🇪🇦 Editor. Shakespeare. Melville. Auden. Wine. Rossini & Verdi. The Fens. Leftie.

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David Marriott@davidmarriott.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Super-interesting article about Wystie. But Funeral Blues in sub-head? Oof. Why not Limestone? A straight reading of Funeral Blues is that it’s mawkish. Its real cleverness lies in that it’s a satire. Or am I being a snob? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal

Exclusive: The newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home

theguardian.com

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last yr.

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

I lost my job. USDA Forest Service. My probation was up next week. I did everything right. I took a GS-7 role with a master’s degree just to get my foot in the door. I spent years doing seasonal fieldwork for low pay, working in remote places, gaining experience, and building skills, just for a chance at a permanent position. I was about to be a GS-9. I wrote NEPA reports. I conducted field surveys. I worked fire support. I dedicated myself to this work because I believed in it. Public lands don’t manage themselves. The wildlife, watersheds, and forests we protect don’t just stay protected without people on the ground making it happen. My coworkers and I took on that responsibility, often in places most people never think about but that matter more than they know. And now? Just like that, I’m out. Edit: I’ve consistently supported progressive policies and have voted Democrat in every national and local election since I was 18. I do appreciate folks asking, I have some coworker having a serious 'leopards ate my face' moment right now.
David Marriott@davidmarriott.bsky.social · 2y ago

Apropos of nothing and addressing no-one in particular, it just occurred to me that this year I will have known my partner for as many years as the years she had when I first met her. I remain uxorious.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

What novels changed the way you see the world in the long-term? The Bluest Eye (Morrison), The Book of Negroes (Hill), Moby-Dick (Melville), American Psycho (Ellis), Long Division (Laymon), The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness (Shin), and Mansfield Park (Austen) are all on my list 📚💙

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

Honestly once you learn to read the world through Moby-Dick, it takes over your brain I get why my grandpa wrote a whole book about it while he was incarcerated press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

David Marriott@davidmarriott.bsky.social · 2y ago

Visiting family - found this bottle I dimly recall buying many years ago at auction, stored in far too warm place the last few years (rest of family not wine obsessives, so they don’t get the memos) – but gosh it’s good – complete, mature, long, warm, full, spicy – what a pleasant surprise. Ooh.

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