~daniel_barker~

Hmmmmmm

Hmm that looks pretty far away

Yeah Bergen is delightful

Yuck

Ah beautiful! Yeah it's a pretty good country overall.

So far: lots of snow

Tromsø

View down into Tromso harbor from a hill. In the foreground, houses and some deep snow which has been partially cleared away. In the distance, large snow-dappled hills.

Anyway I'm in Norway.

When a reading of text has proceeded by laborious stages within the test-rig of detailed study, pause to allow the overall effect to integrate back into a coherent human reading, and ponder whether your life may even have been changed, just a little, or your beliefs about large questions; whether your habits of feeling have been flattered or boastfully challenged, or whether your relation to the text builds up a kind of trust. This aspect is what you will take away with you when all the study is finished, and it should last you through a lifetime.

J. H. Prynne, on reading

just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"

Fucking....yikes

snowy scene, in the foreground is a statue of some muscular dude having a set to with a snake. Buildings are obscured by falling snow and a large throng of people are visible in the midground

'The Jardin des Tuileries’ Terrasse des Feuillants in the snow, with view of the Pavillon de Marsan (the northwestern wing of the Musée du Louvre), Paris.'

Paul Almasy, 1968

Wow! That's an impressive play.

I have mostly got that. But sometimes it's the only option that's even vaguely affordable and practical. But STILL

I have booked a flight that is early in the morning, a thing I famously hate. Why did you do this, me

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

Sorrow is famously what one magpie is for

.....maybe

not especially in the mood today for the sort of stale penny-ante gumball machine cynicism that sludges through this place whenever anything even vaguely good happens, but maybe that's just me

"Look at this useless IDIOT who we HATE who doesn't even care that they SUCK. That could be you!" OK thanks I feel better

Sorry

I don't understand the take "don't have imposter syndrome because some other fuck is terrible at their job and getting away with it." How does that help me exactly

The clock has moved to six minutes to midnight

OK but IF Arsenal won the quadruple and Spurs got relegated in the same season I mean

So no written test I'm thinking

Hope they say thank you

Claude, ask ChatGPT if Gemini is lying to me

Yeah I'm dressed as the idiot from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot you idiot.