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some recent photos
Hawthorne on real estate and thus American colonization:

"What we call real estate the solid ground to build a house on-is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests... He lays his own dead corpse beneath the underpinning"
December 12, 2024 at 11:38 PM
watched McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Wages of Fear back-to-back, accidentally a double feature on life in the hinterlands of the American extractive empire and the violent social forms that arise to govern these outposts
December 10, 2024 at 4:09 PM
just finished and now burning with the zealotry of the new convert
December 3, 2024 at 3:28 AM
bookhaven in Philly
November 28, 2024 at 2:09 PM
words from the final volume of Proust (trans mayor, kilmartin, enright)
November 21, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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astounding, endlessly generative manifold map of Time (psychological, historical, social), journeyed by a fractal mechanism that constantly displaces the reader within the novel's pyschogeography at the level of the sentences, which strain, beautifully, toward a universal gestalt
November 18, 2024 at 5:28 PM
looking to switch up my career, please let me know about any open positions for expatriate writer in the south of france during the 1950s. thanks!
November 18, 2024 at 6:59 PM
astounding, endlessly generative manifold map of Time (psychological, historical, social), journeyed by a fractal mechanism that constantly displaces the reader within the novel's pyschogeography at the level of the sentences, which strain, beautifully, toward a universal gestalt
November 18, 2024 at 5:28 PM
i think the new dem strategy should be elitism but for real, I don't believe true elitism has been tried they should be out here saying only people who speak 5 languages can vote. stuff like that.
November 18, 2024 at 4:39 AM
storygraph is a totally infantilizing website that is now pivoting to AI...

"Flaws of characters a main focus?" good lord
November 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM
wrote about my first trip to the symphony

daveposts.substack.com/p/my-first-t...
November 13, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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understanding the allure of the commune as a kind of managed retreat more and more these days
November 11, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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some recent photos
November 11, 2024 at 11:41 PM
some recent photos
November 11, 2024 at 11:41 PM
acorns cracking like bombs on the roof of the outdoor dining hut provide an immersive element to proust's descriptions of Paris under aerial threat during ww1
November 11, 2024 at 10:50 PM
understanding the allure of the commune as a kind of managed retreat more and more these days
November 11, 2024 at 10:49 PM
silver lining that potentially the continuing tech realignment creates a dem coalition that goes after crypto, online gambling, AI chatbots, algo feeds?
November 11, 2024 at 7:31 PM
the news from last week is I watched (or rewatched) two of the best American films
November 11, 2024 at 3:31 PM
not the most important thing here by any means, but the Trumpian aesthetic is just so phenomenally ugly
November 6, 2024 at 11:16 PM
it's so "funny" that the democrats completed their transition to a party of the college educated in the same moment they stepped aside while the right launched a full-scale attack on higher ed
November 6, 2024 at 10:51 PM