Brian Eberle

@brianeberle.bsky.social

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PhD candidate | 20th-century literature, modernism/modernity, space and geography | absurd and absurdist | altar guild nepo baby

John Cleese and Prunella Scales as Basil and Sibyl Fawlty in twin beds reading, respectively, "Jaws" and "Sexy Laughs"
Three video stills of a man appearing to gesticulate wildly
L to R: Nigel Terry, John Castle, and Anthony Hopkins as John, Geoffrey, and Richard in "The Lion in Winter" (1968)
B&N Classics mass market paperback edition of Jane Eyere
Print of Francis Wheatley engraving "Do you want any Matches?"
Text: For the herring is a kind of universal, supreme power in every fishing village that it condescends to dash by on its proud course through the seas. But because the herring is quite capricious, like all colorful creatures, it has always proven to be quite slippery, and although, for many summers, it had managed to madden most people in the village, there were even more summers when it pleased it not to madden anyone; the herring wasn't what is called truly reliable. Summer after summer, Óseyri in Axlarfjörđur found little favor in its eyes--or none.
A man taking a mirror selfie