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ALBERT CAMUS: THE PLAGUE AND THE ABSURD HERO
Readers generally considered The Plague, published in 1947 (and a large factor in Camus receiving the Nobel Prize for literature a decade later), to be a superior metaphorical novel about
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Hi folks! Teaching a seminar on Camus this fall in Portland for Literary Arts in September / October. Should be great! literary-arts.org/event/albert...
People, uh, idolize Sulla?
It's so funny when people idolize Roman aristocrats like Cicero, Caesar, and Sulla, because reading the primary sources about them makes it clear they were catty bitches who insulted each other by gossiping about the shame of a rival's grandpa owning a rope-making business and a bakery
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
People, uh, idolize Sulla?
Slowly coming to the realization independently (despite everybody has saying it for the past 25 years) that every popular song from the past 40 years is just a tweaked ABBA song
December 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Slowly coming to the realization independently (despite everybody has saying it for the past 25 years) that every popular song from the past 40 years is just a tweaked ABBA song
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I recently complained/asked how to stop (there were no good answers) the Democratic fundraising texts. A friend shared this piece about what a total scam it is: "$11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees."
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
data4democracy.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I recently complained/asked how to stop (there were no good answers) the Democratic fundraising texts. A friend shared this piece about what a total scam it is: "$11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees."
Hi folks! Teaching a seminar on Camus this fall in Portland for Literary Arts in September / October. Should be great! literary-arts.org/event/albert...
ALBERT CAMUS: THE PLAGUE AND THE ABSURD HERO
Readers generally considered The Plague, published in 1947 (and a large factor in Camus receiving the Nobel Prize for literature a decade later), to be a superior metaphorical novel about
literary-arts.org
July 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hi folks! Teaching a seminar on Camus this fall in Portland for Literary Arts in September / October. Should be great! literary-arts.org/event/albert...
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i finally got around to reading this and it a) was not boring, actually a much easier read than Infinite Jest; b) made for a particularly elegiac read right now, with the bureaucracy that DFW holds up as a new-sincerity-style model of civic virtue facing devastating attack
July 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
i finally got around to reading this and it a) was not boring, actually a much easier read than Infinite Jest; b) made for a particularly elegiac read right now, with the bureaucracy that DFW holds up as a new-sincerity-style model of civic virtue facing devastating attack
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just sort of seems like at many different levels the operating philosophy is now "if you have power over someone then its your natural, moral right to inflict pain upon them"
June 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
just sort of seems like at many different levels the operating philosophy is now "if you have power over someone then its your natural, moral right to inflict pain upon them"
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Where did Hollywood go so wrong? I thought movies were supposed to be an escape from reality, a chance to put your worries aside and not have to think about any underlying ideas or concepts. Well, not anymore.
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You Can’t Even Watch A Movie Anymore Without Seeing Some Theme Explored
I’ve loved movies ever since I was a little kid. Just stepping into that dark theater, with the smell of fresh popcorn, was like being transported to a whole other world. It used to be so magical. But now I’m thinking about boycotting movies altogether. Why? Because I can’t seem to watch one anymore without […]
theonion.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Where did Hollywood go so wrong? I thought movies were supposed to be an escape from reality, a chance to put your worries aside and not have to think about any underlying ideas or concepts. Well, not anymore.
theonion.com/you-can...
theonion.com/you-can...
The sad truth is that loving is not radical nor part of some fighting spirit; only fighting is fighting
March 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The sad truth is that loving is not radical nor part of some fighting spirit; only fighting is fighting
Crazy that within the span of two seasons, the Thorns went from a championship team to the bottom 5 with no real hope of recovery, wasting two of the best players in the world. Was it some last sabotage by Paulson? Was LeBlanc just that bad as a GM? Are the new owners feckless and disinterested?
March 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Crazy that within the span of two seasons, the Thorns went from a championship team to the bottom 5 with no real hope of recovery, wasting two of the best players in the world. Was it some last sabotage by Paulson? Was LeBlanc just that bad as a GM? Are the new owners feckless and disinterested?