Owen
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@eigenrobot That looks worth reading. Which I will. My source is a primary source professor of ancient languages who during the war was doing a stint attached to the 101st screaming eagles as intel officer.
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john rawls and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race
taoki@justalexoki
this is an argument i will never get. "it's deserved" i didn't do shit to get born here. it's not deserved. it's luck. and most people are unlucky as hell
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@Hughposting He isn't even the best at this specific niche either—at least Crumplar makes it funny
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This guy's entire journalism career is just parasitically reporting on a scene he claims to despise.
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Here's an example of one of the poems
alex@genossse
, we may learn humility from the luckless scholar who saw reason to approach the Linear B script by way of Basque, and eventually derived elegiac poems from what are now taken to be storehouse inventories. His book was published, in 1931, by the Oxford University Press.
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A YouTube channel I'd been watching recently suggested there's a throughline between Decadent literature (the death of Europe at the fin de siècle) and the Dying Earth sub-genre of science fiction (e.g., Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe). Whatever we're in feels beyond post-apocalyptic.
"D." Fool@FoolOfD
It feels as if we've finally reached Interview Heat Death this year, where the interviewer and interviewee can't be bothered anymore to maintain the façade that anybody actually cares about any of this shit anymore.
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that book lazar is a total astroturf job. got a copy for free at a launch party and read the first 20 pages and was shocked at how bad it was
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This is literally the most UChicago thing I have ever seen
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I think if I could hold all of my followers at the point of a sword and force them to read one book it would be Les Chants de Maldoror
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Prufrock makes more sense when you realize it's structured around Dante's scaffolding
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Malcolm Muggeridegs "Jesus Rediscovered" saved my faith in the often hostile and radical environment of my Art School. In it he also introduced me to Simone Weil, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, Pascal, and most of all St. Augustine.
ThinkingWest@thinkingwest
What’s a book that stayed with you long after you finished it?
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@GrantAKaplan There is a wonderfully damning portrait of him in Adler's "The Last Days of The New Yorker"
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How can Adam Gopnik be so smart and yet so dumb at the same time? A perfect blend of curiosity and stubborn dogmatism: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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