I plan to live forever in a skylit room surrounded by my friends
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Mar 28
I wrote an essay about rocks, stones, and statues. It goes from Pliny to Anne Carson & from Cyprus to Japan to Notre Dame.
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Itâs surprising to me how many Marxists with a hard-nosed, anti-humanistic, âscientificâ temperament are into Gillian Rose, who wrote very elliptically, and wrote not only about Marxism but also about love and faith and so on
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Jun 16
âThe following trailers have been approved as suitable for this movieâ and itâs a Minions trailer showing before Boogie Nights
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Jun 12
David Hume predicted the existence of my PhD thesis when he said that some philosophy books should be thrown on a fire
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Jun 9
One of the reasons I donât like epubs is that they have no typesetting and they are therefore an insult to the art of typography
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Jun 9
âIf I was to write a Weltanschauung I should call it not âWhat I believeâ but âWhat I feelâ.â
- Frank Ramsey, 1925
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Jun 9
Tuning my guitar is the phenomenologically strangest experience of my everyday life. I hear the slight differences between pitches and my brain registers them as somehow visual, tactile, and emotive all at once.
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Dix-huit mille quatre cent cinquante-sept. Et on ne parle QUE des ENFANTS
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I read my favourite philosophers over and over and I still donât understand them
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Jun 8
What is going on in all these family guy screenshots ? What is that show even about
Jun 7
lied about my arabic fluency again and now im a volunteer archivist at the palestine institute for biodiversity and sustainability
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Jun 7
About halfway through Buddenbrooks and itâs not speaking to me very much. I was hoping for basically a novel-length Tonio Kröger, but so far I find hardly any of the existential depth from Mannâs short stories, just lots of discussions about finances etc. Should I keep going?
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Jun 4
Marc Chagall (1997-1985)
Flowers and Lovers, 1924
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Jun 4
When people talk about greatest novels of all time, there seems to be a major bias towards very long realist novels and then just a handful of canonised modernist books
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Jun 2
Beyond the OED, are there any good resources for learning about the history of the use of a word?
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Jun 1
what I listened to in May đ« I went to see Aldous Harding at the Barbican on Friday
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