These collected toaster settings are drawn from an occasional Twitter series. They are presented here without comment, not least because I have no idea how to account for them.
Our toaster settings
• Demo
• Nude
• Whisper of sandstone
• Emily’s ghost
• Étude in C# minor
• The Fire Sermon— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 13, 2015
Our toaster settings
• Comfort
• Ophelia
• Winter in Venice
• Memory of oatmeal
• Entropy
• Where is your Christ now?— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 13, 2015
Our toaster settings
• Remedial
• Sorrow biscuit
• Edwardian asylum
• Daguerrotype
• Mid-90s PC
• Summer of Sam— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 13, 2015
Our toaster settings
• Guest towel
• Muslin after rain
• Background radiation
• Mennonite wedding
• Merchant-Ivory
• Great Fire of London— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 13, 2015
Our toaster settings
• Kickstarter
• Haemophiliac prince
• Dying Aga
• Epistolary novel
• Haunted antimacassar
• I am become death— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 13, 2015
Today's toaster settings
• Prequel
• Dignitas menu
• Failed ochre
• Abandoned plimsoll
• Dead Shetland
• Pain and pleasure, indivisible— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 14, 2015
Evening toaster settings
• Starting on solids
• Personalised stationery
• Gilgamesh fragment
• Deferred tofu
• Little Nell
• Requiem— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 15, 2015
Evening toaster settings
• New car smell
• Stray neutrino
• Swedish hatred
• 4′33″
• Neglected stem cells
• Brighter Than a Thousand Suns— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 15, 2015
Today's toaster settings
• Montauk in February
• Murdered elf
• Albino jamboree
• ‘Esme's Theme’
• Disgraced Tory
• Stabat Mater— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 16, 2015
Today's toaster settings
• Certificate of completion
• Malmö suicide
• Anton Corbijn
• Vermeer interior
• Induced coma
• Auto-da-fé— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 18, 2015
Evening toaster settings
• Sensitive skin
• L'air d'Assange
• Geography cardigan
• Airport Marriott
• Heirloom doily
• Fahrenheit 451— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 18, 2015
Friday toaster settings
• Vestal secret
• Area manager
• Weekday jodhpurs
• Orthopaedic girdle
• Last seen wearing
• Extinction-level event— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 21, 2015
Today's toaster settings
• Starter beige
• Wintour silence
• Dead Sea Scroll
• 'An autumn more appropriate'
• Arkhangelsk
• τετέλεσται— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 28, 2015
Evening toaster settings
• Thank you card
• Lobby muffin
• Distant voices
• Trying anal
• Dying in dreams is dying forever
• [Redacted]— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 29, 2015
Autumn toaster settings
• The light, apparently
• Walking unaided
• Burned-out caravan
• Gin and Harpic
• Alex James
• The idea of north— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 29, 2015
Autumn toaster settings
• New book smell
• Non-specific soup
• Acquitted scoutmaster
• Sentient flannel
• Milk nightmare
• Im Abendrot— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) August 29, 2015
Friday toaster settings
• Ingénue
• Hotel watercolour
• Date night
• Infra-beige
• Tears in rain
• Tunguska— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 4, 2015
John Banville's toaster settings
• Lambent
• Pallid
• Pellucid
• Alabastrine
• Seraphic
• Tragic daughter— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 5, 2015
Martin Amis's toaster settings
• Handjob
• Fiasco
• Lucent girlfriend
• Deliquescent virgin
• Selena Street
• Nicola Six— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 5, 2015
Cheever toaster settings
• First today
• Missed the 6:25
• Ran into Bob and Margery
• Sure, why not?
• Immortal sun god
• Nervous breakdown— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 5, 2015
Knausgaard toaster settings
• Just toast
• Just toast
• Just toast
• Just toast
• Just toast
• ‘A stunning achievement’— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 5, 2015
Weekend toaster settings
• Snow day
• Whey
• Gender-neutral bootees
• Manet complexion
• Anomie
• ‘To dust we shall return’— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 12, 2015
Today's toaster settings
• Seraph's breath
• Sunrise on Pluto
• Ancient silence
• Morticia
• Minimally responsive
• Attack ships on fire— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) November 20, 2015
Evening toaster settings
• Linen mornings
• Gwyneth's Theme
• Episcopalian
• Haunted nursery
• Off season
• We are as dust— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) November 20, 2015
Fifty Shades toaster settings
• Convenient illness
• Anastasia still
• Various items
• Guest speaker
• Masking tape
• The actual book— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) November 20, 2015
Today's toaster settings
• The Snow Child
• Zéphyrine
• Arkhangelsk
• Light after rain
• The mermaids singing
• TERRAIN AHEAD PULL UP— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) November 21, 2015
Midweek toaster settings
• Orphan lullaby
• The uttermost north
• Dead geisha
• Shuttered funfair
• Yeast infection
• Prince of Darkness— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) November 25, 2015
Jane Austen toaster settings
• Ill-disposed
• In a small way
• Indiscernible charm
• Almost pretty
• Five thousand a year
• Most ardently— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) December 16, 2015
White male toaster settings
• Interesting point
• All the women I know
• All I'm saying
• Being silenced
• I'm being polite
• Death threat— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) December 16, 2015
Christmas toaster settings
• 5 am Baileys
• DFS leather effect
• Nativity flesh tone
• Lancôme gift set
• Ancient grievance
• Sale now on— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) December 24, 2015
Irish toaster settings
• Gentle lyricism
• Cold and passionate
• Folk memory
• Hybrid Lexus
• Oscar hopes
• Terrible beauty— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) March 17, 2016
Legacy of 1916 toaster settings
• Travertine
• Ghost estate
• Crème brûlée
• Methadone tan
• Mellowy smellowy
• Economic sovereignty— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) March 26, 2016
Farrow & Ball toaster settings
• Imaginary White
• Lesser Mildew
• Hurtshire
• Sausage Coma
• Bereavement Room
• English Longing— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 2, 2017
Farrow & Ball toaster settings
• Midweek Cream
• Sullen Niece
• Lemonache
• Seaside Breath
• Mauve, Actually
• Whitsun Stabbing— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 2, 2017
Farrow & Ball toaster settings
• Milkward
• Off-Quite
• Anxiety Dream
• Eton Crush
• Custardly
• In the Midst of Life We Are in Death— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 2, 2017
Farrow & Ball toaster settings
• Disappearance
• Stale Anorak
• Timothy's Version
• Waitrose Silence
• Pudding Dream
• Downstairs Loo— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 3, 2017
Farrow & Ball toaster settings
• Ophelia's Room
• Failed Grey
• Bruised Swan
• Attic Orphan
• Clownstooth
• Fenland Manhunt— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 3, 2017
Farrow & Ball toaster settings
• Urchinesque
• Missing Prefect
• Cherished Lint
• Clotted Yearning
• Harrowing Green
• Kentish Murder— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 3, 2017
Farrow & Ball toaster settings
• Senescence
• Muted Pilchard
• Parson's Milk
• Borrowed Duck
• Wild Dowager
• Havisham— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 3, 2017
Farrow & Ball toaster settings
• Solitude
• Meek Whey
• English Gusset
• Wounded Shetland
• Brideshead Damp
• Like Otters in Rain— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 3, 2017
Farrow & Ball toaster settings
• Louche Mink
• Wiganberry
• Infra-Drizzle
• Wronged Flan
• Luton Musk
• Revenge Villanelle— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) September 5, 2017
November toaster settings
• Alabaster
• Freya’s Game
• Untouched Moleskine
• Threnody
• Exclusion Zone
• Darkness Visible— Paraic O'Donnell (@paraicodonnell) November 15, 2017
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