RFBrownwards
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RF Brown. Writer of literary fiction reifying semiotics, philosophy, and postmodern theory. “Big words, small print, no sales.” ✔️homo🏳️🌈
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‘The Art Of Fielding’ knows what's scary about baseball: defector.com/the-art-of-f...
'The Art Of Fielding' Knows What's Scary About Baseball | Defector
I can still remember the sound of the dull thud, and the scream that came after. It was a tournament game, and our pitcher, Paul, was dealing. He always did, because he could throw 80 mph as a…
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July 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Origin of May-December romance? From an 1818 ballad, An Old Man Would Be Wooing:
"An old man, an old man, will never do for me,
For May and December can never agree."
Use this in conversation at your next cocktail party or social gathering. 💙📚
"An old man, an old man, will never do for me,
For May and December can never agree."
Use this in conversation at your next cocktail party or social gathering. 💙📚
July 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Origin of May-December romance? From an 1818 ballad, An Old Man Would Be Wooing:
"An old man, an old man, will never do for me,
For May and December can never agree."
Use this in conversation at your next cocktail party or social gathering. 💙📚
"An old man, an old man, will never do for me,
For May and December can never agree."
Use this in conversation at your next cocktail party or social gathering. 💙📚
I do not use exclamation marks as I think that they are probably the most dispensable piece of punctuation to which a writer can descend unless he is writing for dumb actors.
-Tennessee Williams
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-Tennessee Williams
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July 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I do not use exclamation marks as I think that they are probably the most dispensable piece of punctuation to which a writer can descend unless he is writing for dumb actors.
-Tennessee Williams
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-Tennessee Williams
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"Our online lives will reshape not only the practice of studying history but also how future generations will tell the story of the past."
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era
The challenge: how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter
www.theatlantic.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"Our online lives will reshape not only the practice of studying history but also how future generations will tell the story of the past."
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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That these people are gambling with our lives. They are laying odds on our chances of survival. I want you all to consider what that means in terms of their respect for us as human beings - Salman Rushdie 💙📚
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June 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
That these people are gambling with our lives. They are laying odds on our chances of survival. I want you all to consider what that means in terms of their respect for us as human beings - Salman Rushdie 💙📚
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(cont) For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn?
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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.
-Walter Benjamin, Agesilaus Santander
-Walter Benjamin, Agesilaus Santander
June 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
(cont) For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn?
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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.
-Walter Benjamin, Agesilaus Santander
-Walter Benjamin, Agesilaus Santander
June 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.
-Walter Benjamin, Agesilaus Santander
-Walter Benjamin, Agesilaus Santander
I have been a stranger here in my own land, all my life.
-Antigone
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-Antigone
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June 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I have been a stranger here in my own land, all my life.
-Antigone
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-Antigone
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For years , the study of humanities have been undermined , ridiculed and defunded . Philosophy, history , literature , language are the bases for critical thinking , but what is more important , they are the basis for empathy
June 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
For years , the study of humanities have been undermined , ridiculed and defunded . Philosophy, history , literature , language are the bases for critical thinking , but what is more important , they are the basis for empathy
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In “Preference and Prevention: A New Paradox of Deontology,” Richard Yetter Chappell argues that even those who accept, for themselves, deontic constraints against serious wrongdoing cannot, if they care enough about others, always want others do to so.
#moralphil
#moralphil
Preference and Prevention: A New Paradox of Deontology
It’s commonly thought that we can reasonably oppose serious wrongdoing. For example, deontologist bystanders may prefer that an agent allows the killing of five rather than wrongly killing one as a me...
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June 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In “Preference and Prevention: A New Paradox of Deontology,” Richard Yetter Chappell argues that even those who accept, for themselves, deontic constraints against serious wrongdoing cannot, if they care enough about others, always want others do to so.
#moralphil
#moralphil
An art is like a living organism—better dead than dying. There
is no way of making an aged art young again; it must be born anew and grow up from infancy as a new thing, working out its own salvation from effort to effort in all fear and trembling.
-Samuel Butler, Erewhon 🖋️📚💙
is no way of making an aged art young again; it must be born anew and grow up from infancy as a new thing, working out its own salvation from effort to effort in all fear and trembling.
-Samuel Butler, Erewhon 🖋️📚💙
June 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
An art is like a living organism—better dead than dying. There
is no way of making an aged art young again; it must be born anew and grow up from infancy as a new thing, working out its own salvation from effort to effort in all fear and trembling.
-Samuel Butler, Erewhon 🖋️📚💙
is no way of making an aged art young again; it must be born anew and grow up from infancy as a new thing, working out its own salvation from effort to effort in all fear and trembling.
-Samuel Butler, Erewhon 🖋️📚💙
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death cannot harm me
more than you have harmed me,
my beloved life.
October by Louise Glück
(From Averno, 2006)
more than you have harmed me,
my beloved life.
October by Louise Glück
(From Averno, 2006)
May 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
death cannot harm me
more than you have harmed me,
my beloved life.
October by Louise Glück
(From Averno, 2006)
more than you have harmed me,
my beloved life.
October by Louise Glück
(From Averno, 2006)
He didn’t know whether he was happy or felt like crying. At least he felt in harmony at such moments, he had nothing to do but wait quietly, without quite knowing for what.
- Camus, The Silent Man
- Camus, The Silent Man
May 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
He didn’t know whether he was happy or felt like crying. At least he felt in harmony at such moments, he had nothing to do but wait quietly, without quite knowing for what.
- Camus, The Silent Man
- Camus, The Silent Man
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This regime has taken Heller's insights on corruption and cruelty to nightmare proportions. Milo Minderbinder's moral twin now infests the White House.
#booksky 💙📚
#HistoricalFiction ⏳📚
#booksky.club/main 📚💙
#bookskychat #sanity #litfic
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#booksky 💙📚
#HistoricalFiction ⏳📚
#booksky.club/main 📚💙
#bookskychat #sanity #litfic
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May 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This regime has taken Heller's insights on corruption and cruelty to nightmare proportions. Milo Minderbinder's moral twin now infests the White House.
#booksky 💙📚
#HistoricalFiction ⏳📚
#booksky.club/main 📚💙
#bookskychat #sanity #litfic
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#booksky 💙📚
#HistoricalFiction ⏳📚
#booksky.club/main 📚💙
#bookskychat #sanity #litfic
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No, he didn’t love her; he was merely afraid of what was not she. But who can always sleep alone? Some men do, cut off from others by a vocation or misfortune, go to bed every night in the same bed as death.
-Camus, The Adulterous Woman 🖋️📚💙
-Camus, The Adulterous Woman 🖋️📚💙
May 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
No, he didn’t love her; he was merely afraid of what was not she. But who can always sleep alone? Some men do, cut off from others by a vocation or misfortune, go to bed every night in the same bed as death.
-Camus, The Adulterous Woman 🖋️📚💙
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I love having the category of a #literaryfiction feed on Bsky, but a lot of users seem to recently use the tags to promote “literary” “fiction” that aint either. Remember, Thou canst not be false to any man. 🖋️📚💙
May 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I love having the category of a #literaryfiction feed on Bsky, but a lot of users seem to recently use the tags to promote “literary” “fiction” that aint either. Remember, Thou canst not be false to any man. 🖋️📚💙
I don’t find Hari Kunzru’s novel Blue Ruin a particularly innovative story, but it is an astute, philosophic examination of the tension between art as pure expression and art as capitalist endeavor. Have you read this, do you know if there are thematic links to Kunzru’s “red” and “white” novels? 🖋️📚💙
May 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I don’t find Hari Kunzru’s novel Blue Ruin a particularly innovative story, but it is an astute, philosophic examination of the tension between art as pure expression and art as capitalist endeavor. Have you read this, do you know if there are thematic links to Kunzru’s “red” and “white” novels? 🖋️📚💙
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
May 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, is the definitional modernist novel: plotless, subjectivity fragmented, allusive, alienating. It’s also an emotion-bending literary triumph. 🖋️📚💙
May 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, is the definitional modernist novel: plotless, subjectivity fragmented, allusive, alienating. It’s also an emotion-bending literary triumph. 🖋️📚💙
There is no description of the universe that isn't arbitrary and conjectural for a simple reason: we don't know what the universe is.
-Borges, Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
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-Borges, Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
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May 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
There is no description of the universe that isn't arbitrary and conjectural for a simple reason: we don't know what the universe is.
-Borges, Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
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-Borges, Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
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A lot of words remain to be written about the tears this regime is bringing to the world. If you write, do your duty. People need courage, comfort and hope.
#booksky 💙📚
#HistoricalFiction ⏳📚
#booksky.club/main 📚💙
#bookskychat #sanity #litfic
#booksky 💙📚
#HistoricalFiction ⏳📚
#booksky.club/main 📚💙
#bookskychat #sanity #litfic
May 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A lot of words remain to be written about the tears this regime is bringing to the world. If you write, do your duty. People need courage, comfort and hope.
#booksky 💙📚
#HistoricalFiction ⏳📚
#booksky.club/main 📚💙
#bookskychat #sanity #litfic
#booksky 💙📚
#HistoricalFiction ⏳📚
#booksky.club/main 📚💙
#bookskychat #sanity #litfic
Poetry moment, with Asia:
And now you find yourself in '82
The disco hot spots hold no charm for you
You can concern yourself with bigger things
You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings
And now you find yourself in '82
The disco hot spots hold no charm for you
You can concern yourself with bigger things
You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings
May 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Poetry moment, with Asia:
And now you find yourself in '82
The disco hot spots hold no charm for you
You can concern yourself with bigger things
You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings
And now you find yourself in '82
The disco hot spots hold no charm for you
You can concern yourself with bigger things
You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings