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Joined December 2024
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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the problem with not engaging further is the belief that we know what's been said. Would we, figuring it out, live peaceably? I doubt it, but if we do it right we'll move on to something better
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all because this damn article had to go into consent. Brother's disposition was against counsel
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I'd much rather read Dante
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I'm sorry it's all just too boring
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he's so annoying because he'll have the most beautiful sentences in the ugliest terms snuck randomly between seas of ugly sentences
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What is Enlightenment?
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people hating on the Rieu stuff didn't spend their childhood crying while looking at the faces of the people around them in worship
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Memories worsen the climax I the worst excite. Upon each urge to reprove despair, Job's story returns and my shame is kneaded no longer. Trust patiently what worsens leavens, and I the worst of my judgment dread before bearing who's best.
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"Yet subdue thyself in time, rash fool, to regard thy present ills in wisdom." Hermes
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Sounds like he’s a little too generous to how different this intoxication is even to the speech we to one another make, which might be why, for Whitman or Proust, “literature” can assume that task
Replying to @zamaranthism
For Bataille you couldn’t really substitute imagination for literature. It is literature’s ability to communicate (to the extent that this is possible) the mystical experience of intoxication and losing oneself that matters.
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another day of reading TWA say things wildly at odds w/ his image: "Snobbishness toward mass media is idiotic. Only by changing the function of mass media can the intellectual monopoly of culture industry be broken; it cannot be accomplished by retreating into social impotence."
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Do I love my distractions? Or am I fighting so he can love his interests? To an inward fall from a steady, declining slope he'd sure suggest before recommending I breathe, as if his 'truth' and 'beauty' without me could be other than doomed.
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The rhetoric of my opposition, just as my rhetoric, stands upon a sociality sworn. The difference is where, to y'all, we place our value. Whether I your lie remember more or my weathering mistake explore
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"better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy." Macbeth
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This is what happens when games stop being games. everybody read the ILIAD now!!!!!!
You’re right. This is how you respond to medical staff
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"The riot is, in this telling, always and everywhere illegitimate, which might not surprise us but for the initial claim that it has served "to persuade owners of the legitimacy of the laborers’ demands."" Clover
99% of French protests are incoherent gibberish politics, like under-30s protesting against much needed reform of bloated pensions a decade or so ago. Current events are no different.
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"And hence shall Reverence and her kinsman Fear Pass to each free man's heart, by day and night Enjoining, Thou shalt do no unjust thing, So long as law stands as it stood of old Unmarred by civic change." Athena, The Eumenides
Replying to @circles2waves
"Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Matthew 18:18
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"A riot, we cannot help but notice, is the perfect obverse of a jury." Clover
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It's the question that has always haunted me: whether what led us together mattered more than what we together could decide to do? To be diagnosed is to remember one name less.
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"But it has a resemblance to those Confessions, that are made to Physicians, by such of their Patients as labour under a secret Distemper, hoping thereby for Relief in their Diseases." Pufendorf
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