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if you can call from memory an excerpt of that great bard Shakespeare’s incredibly far-reaching corpus that contemplates your very situation, it is considerable consolation what’er betide you.
Thinking about his meditation on having to shit during a shower helped me today
bro you can have any opinion you want on the underlying facts in dispute here but quite unfortunately Kirk badly dismantled this very stupid pseud “classicist” who understands absolutely nothing about Christian tradition and not much more about Greek and linguistic translation
lol I wonder why, Pincher
Nabokov was a notoriously tough grader and critic, especially of the literature of ideas. But he also championed many popular novels, including writers not often considered literary to serious critics of his time. Authors like H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll, etc.
The real problem is a reader successfully metonymically reducing a work to a fungible instance of its genre eliminates any purpose for it beyond unwitting pastiche, an earnest presentation of those peccadillos conspicuous among middling peers but forgotten in transcendent works
by its obstreperous accidents you label “personality” it succumbs to Plato’s maligned but prescient critique of (manneristic and also summary art) as mere re-presentation “at a third remove” from the truth. If it *can* be abstracted and evaporated, it *should* be
Can you explain what you mean when you say “onomatopoeically” at least? You think there’s a greenness sound out in the natural world that’s invoked by the utterance of that word? Also please stop with onomatopoeic like some kinda savage and say onomatopoetic like a man of letters
Underenjoyed Stevensian excerpt here at end of which dr = soft g which collages with the the umlauty u (that comes between q and i still in modern English) to form a sort of sonic matrix indexing languid luxury (a wisdom hailing from 9th century Anglo Saxon verse) is preserved
Gotta pay me to click this link homie. Like what the fuck world are you living in
Halfway through the film, Elizabeth Holmes said six magical words that a lot of people missed. With these six words, she unintentionally revealed something stunning about how her mind works: robkhenderson.com/p/a-guilty…
It is fully articulated actually
He really was a middle school English teacher at heart and I see how the could really depress somebody with an intellect demanding more from himself
