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I’m about 3/4 thru the first one rn & I do recommend

I think someone reads that in Gormenghast

So many false pleasures that feel like release or relaxation but don't actually make you happy

I'm sick in a way that means I won't be able to apply for grad programs this year

for me there's a connotation of contempt for the audience, but maybe that's something I made up

also “and I awoke and found me here on the cold hill’s side”

god housman was good

I was better than I thought I was

i fear that valorizing the great writer (or worse, in the present publishing paradigm, a writer of bestsellers) devalues the infrastructure required to sustain the good writer, the one whose books may not storm heaven but keep a firm undercurrent to everyone’s reading life

I believe this is, in fact, the original meaning of the term “film bro”