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Is this love is this love is this love is this love that I'm feeling?
To think of being forced to go on writing, writing, like the wheel of a machine – writing tomorrow, writing the day after… — Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov…
Jan 11
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Christopher Mooney
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Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte
Apologies to Richard Whately
Dec 31, 2025
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A Christmas (back)story
Out of my head on the eighth day of a headcold of biblical, Qur’anic and Talmudic proportions (מי האף, nasal mucus, of which the Merciful One included…
Dec 25, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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Ought to should be is: items of mortality
“There was born, on a day and date which it is not of the slightest consequence to mention, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of…
Dec 14, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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Immigrant
This is a collection of alternative facts.
Nov 30, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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therefore I am
Mar 23, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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A Tree Grows in Belleville
Jan 8, 2023
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Christopher Mooney
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Outside
Oct 9, 2022
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Christopher Mooney
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Who killed JJR?
Jun 8, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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The Fallen of rue Faubourg-du-Temple
"Tis as reasonable to represent one kind of Imprisonment by another as it is to represent any Thing that really exists by that which exists not." …
Nov 2, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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One fell soup
“There is next to nothing so big that it can’t be put into a pot,” the older man said.
Oct 19, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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They can put a cup of coffee on the moon
But they can't make a decent man?
Oct 12, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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On the subjects of my disappearance
Loyal readers,
Oct 5, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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Reading contempt
Why books are for schnooks
Aug 3, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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Where are you going, Mama?
1. He had always been somewhat afraid of her.
Jul 6, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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Dwelling on dwelling
“One runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.” – Joan Didion, 1961.
Jun 29, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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Psst!
Wanna buy a restaurant in Paris?
Jun 22, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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Blood purity (triptych)
"Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." – Carl Schmitt, 1922.
Jun 15, 2025
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Christopher Mooney
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