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墙内的社媒从此不再更新。真朋友都死成僵尸了，也交不到新朋友，一打开全是不诚实的撕逼，一点意思都没有。

@pourfairelevide Is it true that this will be the first time for a digital edition？The audiobook is in Apple Books for preorder, but apparently not the text？

I could read this prose forever, truly.

The thing about The Tunnel is that it’s far easier to read and understand sentence-by-sentence than almost any other modernist masterpiece of similar caliber. Gass is an extremely clear writer; his genius is clarity; he couldn’t be otherwise.

Genuinely kind of shocked neither Alito or Thomas have retired yet. Why gamble with dems winning the Senate this year when you could retire now in your mid 70s and have a 100% chance of getting another conservative replacement.

@kristenrudd It’s possible, even with the best intentions, to end up not buying McCarthy’s greatest hits represented in this book. If so, try “Suttree” next. It really is the Southern Ulysses, and very funny too. A much less talked about CM, and in important ways returned to in his last book.

About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.

End of May. Got it.

“Miss Macintosh, My Darling” is going out of print again？！Folks, if you don't plan to read a book within a year of purchase, just buy digital, and leave a few physical copies to the real heads. So many dead trees crammed on your shelf, dying a second time, why bother.

@heystpress A bit confused. The ’06 Spanish edition is listed as over 1600 pages long, but another edition in ’11 is a bit over 700, which seems to agree with the nyrb listing. I wonder if it’s more like an edited collection of diaries kind of thing, rather than an actual penned biography？

@mutianning Bioy Casares

Need that Borges biography

@Anthony_Bonato As somebody who doesn't drink, I didn't know until very recently that "proof" has another meaning.

Bad math joke: A mathematician walks into a bar, then immediately walks out again because they figured out their proof

@funabashi_ahai 那倒是说话啊，我要尊重你的文化和选择，你对我基本的尊重呢

@mutianning @wonaishenye 不回复就是婉拒啊

前几天有个学生跟我说，他有个朋友在日本留学。在打工的地方认识了一个日本女孩子，两个人加了LINE。后来他问对方有没有空一起吃个饭，结果对方一直没有回复。 听到这个故事的时候，我突然想到一个问题：在“吃饭”这件事上，中日之间是不是存在文化差异。 在我看来，如果一个日本女孩子和男生单独吃饭，大概有两种比较常见的情况： 1.她觉得对方有可能发展成恋爱关系 2.两个人已经是关系很好的朋友 所以，如果只是刚认识，也算不上朋友，而且对方还是外国人的话，邀请吃饭，可能会让人觉得有点压力。 在日本，“刚认识，出来吃个饭聊聊天，顺便互相了解一下”这种事情，其实并不那么常见。很多时候，大家会先在同一个环境里慢慢熟悉，比如一起打工、一起上课、或者有共同的朋友，然后才会有私下见面的机会。 所以我觉得，这个学生的朋友其实也没有做错什么，只是文化上的理解方式不太一样而已。 不知道大家怎么看？

Remarkable thing about Paul Ehrlich is not just how wrong he was but that we was totally unphased and unchastened by his wrongness, just a total epistemic disaster zone — a pattern of conduct that is unfortunately shared by many prominent people from different schools of thought.

现在不光大学校园不开放，好像越来越多的大学图书馆网站也不能查书了，要登录校园账号才让你搜。我毕业之后很多年都会时不时上去看看想读的书当年有没有机会在学校里免费读。现在连这点小情趣也享受不了了。有必要吗？

Infinite Jest is almost the exact same length of W&P. You need to account for the ridiculously tight print of the former and leave out the glosses in the latter, as they are not part of the original, and probably only a small percentage of readers go through most of them anyway.

@nr_wayne Is the main text font a bit bigger, but not much? I read it on iPad, and long suspected that the page count is understating just how long the book is. I could be wrong (every AI I ask tells me so), but with uniform font on the device, my version is longer than the annotated W&P.

Listening again, but the footnotes are just a delightful reminder of how brilliant and unique DFW was, specifically here regarding the elaborate and hilarious universe at E.T.A. I’m guessing there are at least a few of you thinking about rereading IJ. I think you should 😬

@s_r_tarnmoor Is the book still big in Texas? The algo never stopped pushing it ever since I took an interest in Cormac, some posts even invoke GAN, as the old west is historically the "most American." The cliche in me wanna say I wish there's a modern TV version so I can get a quick idea.

Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove. Fine ig but idk I think if you're going for "unromanticized story about what it actually felt like to be in the Old West" you can't at the same time do "every single bad thing that ever happened in the Old West will happen to my characters"

Trying a new thing where I tweet (most of) the books I read this year (format borrowed from @Dust_Foot, who I will untag to stop from torturing him)

@erosbrousson I'm not even on any short video platform, but you google cat medicine once, Youtube will never stop pushing fake rescue videos of cats from a generic stray to fucking snow leopards. Snow leopards in your backyard? How fucking little do you algos think of me?

We have reached the terminal stage of internet brain rot. AI is casually generating Chernobyl-level wildlife, and there are probably 40,000 boomers in the replies typing "Amen! God’s beautiful creations! 🙏" If you look at a Siamese Grizzly and think it's just a rare Tuesday in the forest, your right to vote should be legally revoked 🤨🤨

Remember when someone thought it was a good enough idea to air that you should spend as much time reading a book as the author did writing it？I think what makes a bit more sense is you can start reading it at the author’s age when it began gestation.

@xtebordo I arrived at this suspicion after finishing "Infinite Jest." It was quite hard otherwise to explain why so few people talked about how funny it is.

i get the idea here, but the problem with literary writing being funny is that literary readers generally have bad senses of humor.

@eri0208i Genuine question: do women love abs for the visual, the touch, the implications of male prowess, or all of the above?

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