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The Russian library’s Vladimir Nabokov collection. The interviews are transcribed in English. You’ll find them by going to the bottom of the page and then scrolling up.

Apparently, we have our very own day. Today.

Inigo Montoya:
I admit it, you are better than I am.
Man in Black:
Then why are you smiling?
Inigo Montoya:
Because I know something you don’t know.
Man in Black:
And what is that?
Inigo Montoya:
I… am not left-handed.
[Moves his sword to his right hand and gains an advantage]
Man in [...]

Index of texts.

Emergency medical staff do a fantastic job, and, given the stresses of their work, we should understand that they feel the need to blow off some steam.

Seen on a campingsite toilet wall in Tornio, 28. July 2007.
Hiljaa jössä on teppo työssä
kuni vinkuu ja ida hinkuu
yks kaks kol nel
ja vähän spermaa lattialle
ja sängyn alle
kissa nuolee ja äiti kuolee
Finnish is of a different language family from the languages I understand; even so, there lurks in the rhyme one word I recognise as a [...]

Museum pictures. Still, not for the faint of heart.

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Sharon at Early Modern Notes tells us of her positive experiences with WikIndx, “a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system designed either for single use (on a variety of operating sytems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet.”
Now that she has gone through the trouble of finding out how to use such [...]

How many films can you count? (embedded YouTube video.)