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"[The Greeks] bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language - the word 'enthusiasm'- en theos - a god within." (Kay Redfield Jamison quoting Louis Pasteur)
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upcoming books in English translation I found online
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
upcoming books in English translation I found online
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“I never dreamed of becoming a beef puppet for a large language model. I wanted to be a distinguished writer of mournful vignettes in the American grain, or else operate my own soft-serve-ice-cream truck…” —Sam Lipsyte, “Final Boy”
October 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“I never dreamed of becoming a beef puppet for a large language model. I wanted to be a distinguished writer of mournful vignettes in the American grain, or else operate my own soft-serve-ice-cream truck…” —Sam Lipsyte, “Final Boy”
When you read a thing recently... & you remember the thing itself, but not where it came from... & you haven't been keeping up with your commonplace... & you're reading like six books simultaneously, so you have to go flip through each one of them before you find it...
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
When you read a thing recently... & you remember the thing itself, but not where it came from... & you haven't been keeping up with your commonplace... & you're reading like six books simultaneously, so you have to go flip through each one of them before you find it...
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This piece on the distinction between prose and poetry is delicious!
greenmountainsreview.com/a-prose-is-a...
greenmountainsreview.com/a-prose-is-a...
A Prose Is a Prose Is a Prose - Green Mountains Review
Poetry had the feeling that they’d always been holding hands, that they sometimes forgot. Prose had the feeling that when they forgot they forgot on purpose. These feelings they had, they had them, th...
greenmountainsreview.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This piece on the distinction between prose and poetry is delicious!
greenmountainsreview.com/a-prose-is-a...
greenmountainsreview.com/a-prose-is-a...
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“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’”
Superb read: www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...
Superb read: www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...
Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears wherever we t…
www.themarginalian.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’”
Superb read: www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...
Superb read: www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...
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For most of the history of our species, we had no systematic way of classifying the colors of the living world in order to describe it, until a German geologist came along and created a pioneering nomenclature that Darwin took with him on the Beagle: www.themarginalian.org/2018/02/06/w...
September 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For most of the history of our species, we had no systematic way of classifying the colors of the living world in order to describe it, until a German geologist came along and created a pioneering nomenclature that Darwin took with him on the Beagle: www.themarginalian.org/2018/02/06/w...
"Well, they had wanted me, they had prayed for me. It was me or death."
(I want this book... but I just bought eight new books & can't decide if that means a ninth is too many or no big deal.)
(I want this book... but I just bought eight new books & can't decide if that means a ninth is too many or no big deal.)
A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
Failure is the story, but the story itself is also failure.
www.theparisreview.org
September 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"Well, they had wanted me, they had prayed for me. It was me or death."
(I want this book... but I just bought eight new books & can't decide if that means a ninth is too many or no big deal.)
(I want this book... but I just bought eight new books & can't decide if that means a ninth is too many or no big deal.)
"Young people seeking out churches would indicate for Arendt not that religion will save us from nihilism, but rather that young people are desperate to find places to meet other young people that aren’t online."
I am somewhere between young/not-young, but I feel this.
I am somewhere between young/not-young, but I feel this.
Returning to Church Won’t Save Us from Nihilism
Engaging in ritual for ritual’s sake only deepens nihilism.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"Young people seeking out churches would indicate for Arendt not that religion will save us from nihilism, but rather that young people are desperate to find places to meet other young people that aren’t online."
I am somewhere between young/not-young, but I feel this.
I am somewhere between young/not-young, but I feel this.
"Plato's legacy to European thought was a trio of capital letters - the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. [...] Europe owes much of its murderous history to errors of thinking engendered by the alphabet."
September 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Plato's legacy to European thought was a trio of capital letters - the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. [...] Europe owes much of its murderous history to errors of thinking engendered by the alphabet."
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Heating pads & fluffy throw blankets.
2. A candlelit game of Scrabble at the end of a long day.
3. That first cup from a freshly opened bag of loose leaf tea.
4. Spider-pals webbing in the summer door wreath.
5. Dark, sweet cherries.
1. Heating pads & fluffy throw blankets.
2. A candlelit game of Scrabble at the end of a long day.
3. That first cup from a freshly opened bag of loose leaf tea.
4. Spider-pals webbing in the summer door wreath.
5. Dark, sweet cherries.
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. that first good stretch of the day
2: watching birds outside your window
3: long walks with a good audiobook
4: compliments to or from a stranger
5: planning something fun, even (or especially?) if it’s months away
1. that first good stretch of the day
2: watching birds outside your window
3: long walks with a good audiobook
4: compliments to or from a stranger
5: planning something fun, even (or especially?) if it’s months away
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. sleeping with the windows open
2: setting your watch in the morning
3: hot showers
4: traveling someplace new
5: making someone laugh
1. sleeping with the windows open
2: setting your watch in the morning
3: hot showers
4: traveling someplace new
5: making someone laugh
September 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Heating pads & fluffy throw blankets.
2. A candlelit game of Scrabble at the end of a long day.
3. That first cup from a freshly opened bag of loose leaf tea.
4. Spider-pals webbing in the summer door wreath.
5. Dark, sweet cherries.
1. Heating pads & fluffy throw blankets.
2. A candlelit game of Scrabble at the end of a long day.
3. That first cup from a freshly opened bag of loose leaf tea.
4. Spider-pals webbing in the summer door wreath.
5. Dark, sweet cherries.
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My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!
September 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!
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Done live on Twitch at twitch.tv/wobblypython
September 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Done live on Twitch at twitch.tv/wobblypython
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'What does the lover demand from the body of the beloved in order to secure certainty. Little things. Eternity.'
the divine Alina @alinaetc.bsky.social
This is a fabulous interview by @monalisavitti.bsky.social, I need more
the divine Alina @alinaetc.bsky.social
This is a fabulous interview by @monalisavitti.bsky.social, I need more
“What do we betray when we refuse to make the ritual sacrifice?:” An Interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/18/w...
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/18/w...
“What do we betray when we refuse to make the ritual sacrifice?:” An Interview with Alina Stefanescu—Cristina Politano
Alina Stefanescu is a Romanian-born poet who resides in Alabama. Her recent poetry collection, My Heresies, was published by Sarabande Press. Her poetry shifts geographical and chronological spaces…
minorliteratures.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
'What does the lover demand from the body of the beloved in order to secure certainty. Little things. Eternity.'
the divine Alina @alinaetc.bsky.social
This is a fabulous interview by @monalisavitti.bsky.social, I need more
the divine Alina @alinaetc.bsky.social
This is a fabulous interview by @monalisavitti.bsky.social, I need more
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In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.
— Robert Brault
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In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.
— Robert Brault
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September 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.
— Robert Brault
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In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.
— Robert Brault
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Something I've been thinking about lately is how to assert my right to think about the things I want to think about, the cultural or intellectual questions that are interesting to me, rather than have my day-to-day attention yanked around by someone else's agenda (i.e., the guy with the megaphone)
September 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Something I've been thinking about lately is how to assert my right to think about the things I want to think about, the cultural or intellectual questions that are interesting to me, rather than have my day-to-day attention yanked around by someone else's agenda (i.e., the guy with the megaphone)
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what subtype of social anxiety is it when you are enthusiastic about HAVING conversations but overcome with existential dread at the prospect of STARTING one?
September 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
what subtype of social anxiety is it when you are enthusiastic about HAVING conversations but overcome with existential dread at the prospect of STARTING one?
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25 years ago there used to be teams of people who tried to make buttons fun to press. Now we can't afford avocados
September 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
25 years ago there used to be teams of people who tried to make buttons fun to press. Now we can't afford avocados
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“If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
Steinbeck's timeless advice on love www.themarginalian.org/2012/01/12/j...
Steinbeck's timeless advice on love www.themarginalian.org/2012/01/12/j...
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son
“If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
www.themarginalian.org
September 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
“If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
Steinbeck's timeless advice on love www.themarginalian.org/2012/01/12/j...
Steinbeck's timeless advice on love www.themarginalian.org/2012/01/12/j...
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brøther I cräve the forbidden lämp👁️
September 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
brøther I cräve the forbidden lämp👁️
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Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze
September 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze