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Jan 28
Reposting/transmuting these monitory bits of critical biography as tripartite career-path/lifeplan 🧵:
(1) Deliberate self-exposure to the Vico virus
![Vico's gift [of his book] did not elicit a response in this case
either. The author was bitterly disappointed with the
public reaction to his book, or to be more exact, with the
lack of reaction. 'In this city', he wrote from Naples, 11
reckon that I have sent it to the desert, and I avoid all the
main centres so as not to meet the people to whom I have
sent copies, and if I cannot avoid them, I greet them hastily;
and when this happens none of them give any sign of having
read it, and so confirm me in my opinion that I have sent it
to the desert.' Since the ideas of Descartes remained so
fashionable in Naples, Vico commented sadly in another of
his letters, it was only to be expected that his own work
would be condemned.](https://venexa.site/media/G_wClSlWoAAsLSM.jpg)
ALT Vico's gift [of his book] did not elicit a response in this case either. The author was bitterly disappointed with the public reaction to his book, or to be more exact, with the lack of reaction. 'In this city', he wrote from Naples, 11 reckon that I have sent it to the desert, and I avoid all the main centres so as not to meet the people to whom I have sent copies, and if I cannot avoid them, I greet them hastily; and when this happens none of them give any sign of having read it, and so confirm me in my opinion that I have sent it to the desert.' Since the ideas of Descartes remained so fashionable in Naples, Vico commented sadly in another of his letters, it was only to be expected that his own work would be condemned.
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Jun 14
I realised in grad school that I didn't know nearly as much as I thought I did. Four years of doctoral studies didn't teach me a lot more history, it gave me insights into ways to find what I needed to know and how to separate good data from bad.
Jun 14
“The measure of your education is that you acquire some idea of the extent of your ignorance.”
— Christopher Hitchens
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Jun 12
I wrote some stuff on Milan Kundera's A Kidnapped West (2023) and 89 Words (2025)...link in reply.
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Jun 12
I wrote some stuff on Milan Kundera's A Kidnapped West (2023) and 89 Words (2025)...link in reply.
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May 28
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a bonesmashing Chad in possession of a polymarket account, must be in want of a foreign AI girlfriend
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May 28
It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with the Antichrist when JD announced that the archbishop had come to see me
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May 26
The Novelist
(89 Words, Milan Kundera, 2025)
((A earlier draft of/supplement to a keywords list found in his The Art of the Novel, link to my midrash of which in reply))
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May 24
Loved this essay anyhow, thanks for sharing
Agree with the vibes but not the detail. The central argument that true literary style is essentially the product of embodiment isn't convincingly developed. LLMs also don't just predict within individual sentences! And some weird stuff about Turing not being a logician but ASD.
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May 22
Bennett is indeed a bit of an oddball, tho...I usedta teach his "Translating Literature into Life" just to stimulate discussion, but he does have a point about a need to first empathise in order to then (mixing his metaphors) "wrestle" "using all one's engine power"
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May 20
Virginia Woolf: James Joyce FTW
("Modern Fiction," The Common Reader I, underlinings not my own)
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May 17
Been away, trying to get s/t done, but back to say that my second novel, She sang to Them, She Sang, has been reissued as an eBook by the good folks at RedFiend Pub (link in reply)
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May 17
Here you'll find books by Steven Moore, Alexander Theroux, as well as a growing list of corona\samizdat authors...
redfiendpub.com/
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Apr 17
It's here (NDG, Montreal) today, finally!
13 May 2022
28C/82F ...So much for spring.
Here's Leonard Cohen on its evanescence in these parts:
(Beautiful Losers, 1966) [1/2]
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