Sir Culls

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Sir Culls

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Sir Culls
Sir Culls@circles2waves·
we live in a world (Twitter) where, upon reading something we are surprised by, we, without faces to read, find ourselves stalking profiles. Then we can relieve ourselves: "oh, they're insane", "oh, they're stupid", "oh, they're a fascist".
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Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler
Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler@thezachloeffler·
“Tragedy refuses a nominalistic form. The totality that sanctions for its own glory the destruction of the individual, who has no choice but to be destroyed, rules unchallenged.” TWA
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Sir Culls
Sir Culls@circles2waves·
and look at us… crystallizing apart from each other. Siphoning histories! How deeply literary! We’ll wait to quake
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Sir Culls@circles2waves·
it’s even more funny because you’d think those pushing the book would want the discourse to be about the book. but that’s obviously not what they either want or care enough to support. But this is twitter, and I suppose we must adapt. that’s what Gass would want, they say
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I mean it’s a fair point that I might be harming its existence (what an absurd thought, no?) by finding its marketing strategy anti-literature, but I understand that some of y’all, with good reason, believe in guerrilla warfare
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If any institution would allow my dissent on promoting “all press is good press,” I’d hope it be one of the last institutions dedicated to how humans *can* communicate with one another.
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every time I’ve criticized someone on their emphasis and worship of the market of literature, and each time I’ve been responded to like I’m not talking about “the market,” I’ve gotten the reaction that I’m some sort of anti-intellectual goblin
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Sir Culls
Sir Culls@circles2waves·
but ofc as an involuntary historian this pushes me as prone to malice. I’m working on it… is malice is just honesty unwarranted?
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Sir Culls
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one thing I won’t do is flatter an older man
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Sir Culls@circles2waves·
“Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.” Isaiah 22:4
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Sir Culls@circles2waves·
Criticism’s failure is exclusionary
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Sir Culls
Sir Culls@circles2waves·
@spiccarella Y’all love criticism until it’s against yourselves; why? because you think you’re worthless. I’m sorry I disagree!
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Sir Culls
Sir Culls@circles2waves·
“Nothing vast enters into the life of mortals without a curse.”
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Sir Culls@circles2waves·
even as, when the surge is driven over the darkness of the deep by the fierce breath of the Thracian sea-winds, it rolls up the black sand from the depths, and there is a sullen roost from wind-vexed headlands that from the blows of the storm.” CHORUS, Antigone
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“Blest are they whose days have not tasted evil. For when a house hath once been shaken from heaven, there the curse fails nevermore, passing from life to life of the race;
Multipolar Press / Constantin von Hoffmeister@constantinvonh

“Poets most often arise at the beginning or the end of an era. Song is the means by which peoples depart from the heaven of their childhood and thus enter into active life, into the realm of civilization.” — Friedrich Hölderlin

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