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My small account posting with absolutely ZERO engagement…
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Should I sign up? I don’t want to miss any of his new books.
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If you’re posting about Gordon Wood, this is what you look like:
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Most people performatively posting here about Gordon Wood, never read him, and it shows.
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Republicans and Democrats, Guelphs and Ghibellines, Elves and Goblins.
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I liked one post from this that randomly appeared and now the algorithm is flooding me with its replies—and wow the amount of people who take a kids’ space movie seriously. Gravity and sound in space should have tipped you off that you’re not meant to analyze its mise-en-scène
Give me your best Star Wars nitpicks. No reasonable criticisms or analysis, I'm talking real pedantic here.
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A danger in having good taste is that many people will hate you for it—a very energetic hatred. In fact for 60 years we Americans have been fuelling a whole society on the hatred of good taste and now bask in the conflagration of vicious mediocrity.
Jun 1
Otto Turkish - like Oliver Kamm - is for some reason preoccupied with the idea that Powell was a pretentious pseud.
Ofc what is actually going on here is a shallow & trivial man being literally unable to process the words & ideas of a serious & thoughtful man.
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Being “great at killing” is actually really difficult. Most people have never even killed one person, let alone led thousands of other people to kill their way to destroying a world empire. It’s not so easy.
I can't help but notice these lists of 'great men' are all men who were great at killing. In the case of Alexander or (fictional!) Achilles, great at killing and *nothing else.*
No scientists, artists, writers, humanitarians.
Just killers. Not quite my definition of greatness.
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Pictures of books all over my feed—why?
I have perhaps 10,000, both on cheap shelves and cases, in stacks, in boxes, wrapping around the basement walls, in the office, and in three bedrooms, It would take an hour to photograph . Why would I sexualize my tight books like that?
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We invented polyphony. We have the only musical tradition in the world (and in history) based on harmony. That’s a reflection of our culture.
Everyone else screeches to a few strings and bongo beats. That is also a reflection of their cultures.
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Caucasians don’t build anything. They just steal.
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I am blessed with obscurity, so I will reveal the truth: it was originally πολύτοπος and was an epithet in a threnody (Odysseus > ὀδύνη, grief) of the hero “of many places,” slain by his other son. Some rhapsode inserted it into epic lay, and meter forced him to insert a rho.
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Diese Ratio unter einem halbwegs erfolgreichen Post. Das Los der Philologen. Weniger Kenner, dafür mit Sinn für Verstand.
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Yeah well maybe you shouldn’t have been invading their spaces and calling them c*****rs on a live stream. Freedom of speech isn’t freedom from consequences.
I got bit by a bunch of chiggers yesterday and I am in agony.
I hate chiggers.
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Odyssey denialism has no place in America. That’s not who we are.
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you guys know the odyssey didn’t really happen right. it wasn’t a real thing that happened. it was made up
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Rosalyn Tureck’s Bach is so good.
Asked if she thought her programs were asking too much of the audience, I once heard her say, “No, but I play only for those who know nothing yet or those who know everything already.”
No midwits for Tureck.
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Replace “playing video games” with “comparing different editions of Aeschylus,” but otherwise, yes.
Most men who idealize the "tradwife" don't want to be "trad husbands". They want to be normie husbands married to trad wives.
They want a wife who wakes up early to bake bread while they spend the Saturday playing video games. The burden of trad is offloaded onto the wife.
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Alexander the Great was molested by Aristotle, and that is why he took over the world.
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Alexander the Great did not 'take over the world'.
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The only bad guy in all of Homer is Thersites.
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Let’s all agree to keep speaker phone technology and FaceTime the hell away from these people.
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The Hadzabe language, spoken in East Africa, is one of the most difficult languages to transcribe into writing.
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Indeed the only creative energies to arise out of stoicism are descriptions of the suicides of some of its practitioners.
All the big cosmic takes are amusing but on a more mundane level, stoicism lacked any creative energy. Like conservative entertainment now, it couldn’t reach beyond itself. Epicureanism attracted Virgil and Horace; stoicism left behind some self-help books and a few bad plays.
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