Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."
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Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."
#writerslife
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
[handcuffed]
officer, the Dow is at the highest it’s ever been!!!
I love this one
microdosing the horrors by being awake
The top half of a cat is concealed behind a gold curtain, its bottom half exposed.
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
I wish with poetry readings we considered the poem more and minutes less.
A photo of my poem “I Wanted to Touch Your Shadow”
My poem “I Wanted to Touch Your Shadow” is in the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social
ME: so what do you think of this cluster of big lakes
TONY THE TIGER: *deep breath*
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
sure sex is great but have you ever had a growing and persistent sense of dread that turned out to be horribly, sickeningly justified
Get Chuck Schumer out
"Mamdani’s victory, above all, is a rebuke to the conventional strategies of the Democratic party. Democratic congressional leadership seems to have replaced the work of politics with a sort of learned helplessness," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Mamdani is not a warning shot; he is a sign of things to come. Dem voters everywhere want transformative change. They’re furious at party’s leaders and suspicious of candidates backed by an establishment that gets everything wrong," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Different Dem candidates winning in different places should be evidence of the big tent - huzzah!
Also, Mamdani winning in NYC despite the tepid support of Jeffries, lack of support from Schumer, and outright opposition from Cuomo should absolutely be seen as a marker of what's to come.
Are people still here or is this a void?
They are called writers
A newspaper clipping from 1906 that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."
Timeline cleanse.
Newspaper clipping, 1906.
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You are the most beautiful💕
how it feels to contribute to an edited volume
I’m pmsing on an eclipse in Pisces god help us all
For me, the main message from Brokeback Mountain is that you should only see people a few times a year.
RIP Marcel Proust, you would’ve loved Lana Del Rey.
Proustian
With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.
By the time you’re 32 you should have lived in at least one haunted apartment
Lithuanians?
Oh youre jacking off to the sabrina carpenter sexy dog pic? Boring. Ill instead be jacking off to the album covers of Schubert , and Strauss
Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).
