@Samnehtwt Agree about the final section. I didn’t love it a ton.
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Rick Delaney
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Rick Delaney
@RickRain04
Book editor, history and academic titles. My personal fav topics: Darwin, Charles. Joyce, James. Brown, James.
Beigetreten Aralık 2010
854 Folgt735 Follower
@RickRain04 Just finished this today too,
What a book, last few pages were insanely well written!
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Me: Wakes up and flips on the old twitter machine to see what’s happening in our stupid war.
Twitter:
John Podhoretz@jpodhoretz
Hasan Piker would likely support Tim Miller’s murder on the grounds that he is gay man with children. And then support the murder of his children, as he supports the murder of mine for being Jews. Nice going, Tim. You’ve sold your soul. Enjoy the cash.
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@NixonPunished @BulwarkOnline @Timodc @hasanthehun Yup. And people objecting to Hassan are now part of a “freakout” according to Miller.
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@BulwarkOnline @Timodc @hasanthehun From Jeb Bush’s campaign to hanging out with 9/11 apologists.
The Bulwark is a joke.
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@titusfilm @p_m_robinson I put Absalom at no. 1. But M-D is top 3 or 5.
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Yes! Moby Dick is so widely derided--even my hero Bill Buckley said he could never make his way through it--that I've tended to keep quiet about loving every last word of the book myself. But if you're forming a pro-Melville militia, count me in.
Kale Zelden@kalezelden
@BattlCryOFreedm @JoshPhillipsPhD My dream is to get 15 people in a room and do a whole week in person.
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@nickpretnar @PerellClips Agree. It’s my favorite novel and maybe, like he says, my favorite American artwork.
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@PerellClips This is an unbelievable take on one of the densest and most profoundly written books in the English language.
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"The greatest piece of American art ever made is Absalom, Absalom."
Wright Thompson says: "Faulkner gets something so essentially right about the South. It's a place where the conflict that exists inside the hearts of every human being is played out on the landscape in an external way that almost never happens.
The South is one of the few places in the world where the interior becomes manifestly exterior. You know how they have energy vortexes in Sedona?
Likewise, the South is one of those places where the thing cracks open and the big subterranean human ideas — the conflict in the heart of every human being burst into physical action on the actual physical land.
William Faulkner could see that. He had that Sixth Sense.
One of the reasons that book resonates with people across generations is that he's describing something you've instinctually felt but never had the vocabulary to describe."
David Perell@david_perell
"One great detail will do the work of 50 crappy sentences." Wright Thompson is one of the last great magazine writers in America. He's long been a writer at ESPN, and if you love sports, you've almost definitely read his work. Maybe his profile of Tiger Woods. Or maybe the one about Michael Jordan. Some highlights: - "When somebody says something is overwritten, it really just means that the story is underreported." - Profiles are about figuring out what is a central complication of somebody's life and how, on a daily basis, they go about solving it. - "All of these stories, the few good ones I've written... I think these stories are like a prayer for empathy, to try to understand each other, to understand another human being a little bit at a time. Then slowly, thread by thread, you understand yourself." - On writing well: "One of the things that's missing is that nobody wants to hear what I have to say, which is just reps. Zen is a butt in a seat. There's no mystery. It's just reps." - "I wish someone had told me years ago that if you're going to be a professional writer for decades, writing is not going to be about words, but it's going to be about architecture. Only when you really understand how things fit together and move can you then actually be thinking about the words." - "All writing is trying to say something new that is true and is both specific and universal and that helps the reader understand something they didn't understand before, preferably about themselves." And here are the timestamps: 1:50 Writer's vomit vs. writer's block 8:33 The architecture of writing 11:30 What makes for a good story? 15:57 Bringing characters to life 21:11 "The hammer" 26:26 Writing a vivid scene 33:41 How to bring places to life 39:57 Dialogue vs. quotes 45:49 The role of secondary characters 51:44 The problem with "brainstorming" 1:02:13 What makes for a great ending? I've shared the full conversation with Wright Thompson below. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, or listen to the full thing on Apple / Spotify, check out the reply tweets.
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@RickRain04 @Timodc Spend more time reading. It’ll improve your level of discourse.
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The amount of grief that @Timodc is getting on his Hasan Piker take is pure garbage. We are in an existential fight where either MAGA prevails or America survives, with nothing in between, and Tim is among the best leaders in that fight.
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@redsteeze @jkirchick And not a pic from like 8 years ago. Pretty danged recent.
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I’m old enough to remember when @timodc thought standing against bigotry was worth losing an election over
Tim Miller@Timodc
“If people really are arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted misogynist like Hasan Piker, then I’ll take not winning,” Jonathan Cowan told @Lauren_V_Egan. This seems like a bad message to me given the state of things. thebulwark.com/p/how-big-is-t…
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@KeshaWorld91 It’s unbelievable. Thousands of possible candidates and he just can’t. Separate. Himself. From. This. Nut.
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I'm unsubscribing from the bulwark. You guys clearly have a different audience in mind than what im willing to partake in. Going from moderates to leftists defending the antisemities from criticism.
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Tim Miller@Timodc
“If people really are arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted misogynist like Hasan Piker, then I’ll take not winning,” Jonathan Cowan told @Lauren_V_Egan. This seems like a bad message to me given the state of things. thebulwark.com/p/how-big-is-t…
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“If people really are arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted misogynist like Hasan Piker, then I’ll take not winning,” Jonathan Cowan told @Lauren_V_Egan.
This seems like a bad message to me given the state of things.
thebulwark.com/p/how-big-is-t…
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@uncledoomer @SeanTrende His Secret Service: “We had the bullet-proof suit right in front of us! What didn’t we use it?”
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no way he didnt catch a curse doing this
📜Echoes of Empire📜@EchoesofEmpire_
Archduke Franz Ferdinand posing as a mummy on a trip to Cairo in 1896.
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"It is infuriating to me how many people are kind of struggling to make a life here... it is an emergency, and they don't treat it like it—and it makes me fucking nuts."
@jonlovett and @Timodc discuss the upcoming California gubernatorial race and its jungle primary.
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@DeadsoundApp Maybe Van Morrison's "It's All in the Game/You Know What They're Writing About" closing out "Into the Music."
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The most beautiful studio album closer of all time is “Find the River” on REM’s Automatic for the People.” I would love to hear other candidates (while warning that they’ll likely be deemed incorrect).
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@thethoughtofth1 I finished Ducks yesterday! Began Memoirs of Hadrian today. (Sorta kinda Death of Virgil😉.)
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Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
goodreads.com/book/show/12172
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@SamuelJRo @cwik_greg Those are the two I’ve read and had those same two reactions.
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@cwik_greg I was iffy on Savage Detectives but By Night in Chile is outstanding
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@DepartureJay Hmmm…it definitely began to move with momentum as it neared the end. And I now wonder if it, a la Proust, Ulysses, gains much in a reread. If hundreds/thousands of details become very salient a second time.
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