sean watson
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One cool thing about being a teacher is that when the school holidays arrive you can hang out in your house eating a tuna melt and listening to the record "Caveman Wakes Up" by Friendship
July 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
One cool thing about being a teacher is that when the school holidays arrive you can hang out in your house eating a tuna melt and listening to the record "Caveman Wakes Up" by Friendship
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Ok, I keep thinking about this opening from the "Will AI revolutionize reading?!" New Yorker piece from the other day. Feel free to ignore what will be an inevitably rambling thread on the topic of reading
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June 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Ok, I keep thinking about this opening from the "Will AI revolutionize reading?!" New Yorker piece from the other day. Feel free to ignore what will be an inevitably rambling thread on the topic of reading
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Copped this ancient, decaying copy of Enid Starkie's Rimbaud biography from a seller in New Zealand:
June 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Copped this ancient, decaying copy of Enid Starkie's Rimbaud biography from a seller in New Zealand:
There is zero chance that I'll have the time or cognitive resources to read this during the next fifteen years, but I want to buy it anyway.
June 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
There is zero chance that I'll have the time or cognitive resources to read this during the next fifteen years, but I want to buy it anyway.
A lot of school teachers talk a big game about how they're going to quit and learn a trade because the hours would be better and they reckon they'd get paid more. These guys need to spend a weekend painting their laundry and then get back to me
June 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM
A lot of school teachers talk a big game about how they're going to quit and learn a trade because the hours would be better and they reckon they'd get paid more. These guys need to spend a weekend painting their laundry and then get back to me
“The future is a monstrous, powerful colossus that will soon fall on me and crush me. My tattered childhood flaps around me, and no sooner have I patched one hole than another breaks through somewhere else.”
(Ditlevsen, ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy’)
(Ditlevsen, ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy’)
November 23, 2024 at 8:17 PM
“The future is a monstrous, powerful colossus that will soon fall on me and crush me. My tattered childhood flaps around me, and no sooner have I patched one hole than another breaks through somewhere else.”
(Ditlevsen, ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy’)
(Ditlevsen, ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy’)
intro to close reading with the year elevens tomorrow, meaning I gotta smash that Hopkins button:
November 21, 2024 at 7:02 AM
intro to close reading with the year elevens tomorrow, meaning I gotta smash that Hopkins button:
respect to all of those in the northern hemisphere enjoying the new Mount Eerie album but it’s summer down here and I don’t have capacity for that right now
November 21, 2024 at 6:50 AM
respect to all of those in the northern hemisphere enjoying the new Mount Eerie album but it’s summer down here and I don’t have capacity for that right now
the face of a perfect angel who just looked me dead in the eye and vomited all over the Good Couch right before I left for work
November 19, 2024 at 8:06 PM
the face of a perfect angel who just looked me dead in the eye and vomited all over the Good Couch right before I left for work
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I am a simple man. If I read “first two parts of wildly acclaimed Danish speculative septology from New Directions incoming” then I immediately pre-order
November 19, 2024 at 8:26 AM
I am a simple man. If I read “first two parts of wildly acclaimed Danish speculative septology from New Directions incoming” then I immediately pre-order
my wife is making fun of me for taking notes while watching a YouTube lecture on Hegel, and she’s right to do it
November 18, 2024 at 5:46 AM
my wife is making fun of me for taking notes while watching a YouTube lecture on Hegel, and she’s right to do it
Next up, thanks to a recent @yoonkim.bsky.social post:
November 17, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Next up, thanks to a recent @yoonkim.bsky.social post:
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Out of The Collected Poems of Marguerite Young, edited by Phil Bevis, Joshua Rothes, and Jacob Siefring (@jsief.bsky.social) (Chatwin Books, Sublunary Editions, 2022). Young, in a short Introduction, talks of the poetry/prose continuum and the practice of “drag” in prose:
November 16, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Out of The Collected Poems of Marguerite Young, edited by Phil Bevis, Joshua Rothes, and Jacob Siefring (@jsief.bsky.social) (Chatwin Books, Sublunary Editions, 2022). Young, in a short Introduction, talks of the poetry/prose continuum and the practice of “drag” in prose:
Finally got around to watching “Noroi: The Curse,” and am still living with its crushingly grim vibes. A movie almost exclusively made up of cursed images and droning doom sounds. Extremely sick.
November 16, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Finally got around to watching “Noroi: The Curse,” and am still living with its crushingly grim vibes. A movie almost exclusively made up of cursed images and droning doom sounds. Extremely sick.
Is the general consensus that Knausgaard’s “Morning Star” series has eclipsed “My Struggle”? Three books in and everything is clicking so satisfyingly into place. Feels like a refinement of everything he did previously.
November 15, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Is the general consensus that Knausgaard’s “Morning Star” series has eclipsed “My Struggle”? Three books in and everything is clicking so satisfyingly into place. Feels like a refinement of everything he did previously.
Clarice Lispector, “Near To The Wild Heart”
November 2, 2023 at 9:48 AM
Clarice Lispector, “Near To The Wild Heart”
I’m on the home stretch of this incredible novel. It’s as good as everyone says, and vastly superior to BLINDING, which was also outstanding. An insane maelstrom of the banal and the grotesque, structured like consciousness repeatedly dilating and contracting.
November 1, 2023 at 10:35 AM
I’m on the home stretch of this incredible novel. It’s as good as everyone says, and vastly superior to BLINDING, which was also outstanding. An insane maelstrom of the banal and the grotesque, structured like consciousness repeatedly dilating and contracting.
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I keep having to break the bad news to students in my writing class: "having trouble finding the words" is not a problem that's going to go away! And you can't wait for that miracle before starting to write. All you can do is learn how to power through until you *have* some words you can work on.
October 11, 2023 at 4:23 PM
I keep having to break the bad news to students in my writing class: "having trouble finding the words" is not a problem that's going to go away! And you can't wait for that miracle before starting to write. All you can do is learn how to power through until you *have* some words you can work on.
October 2022 - July 2023. Defining experience of my reading life
July 31, 2023 at 11:29 AM
October 2022 - July 2023. Defining experience of my reading life
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William Blake, ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’: ‘Spring’, 1794
July 15, 2023 at 6:42 AM
William Blake, ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’: ‘Spring’, 1794
Driving down the to Geelong to watch football with the boys, and you better believe I’m packing the hard stuff for later tonight
July 14, 2023 at 11:54 PM
Driving down the to Geelong to watch football with the boys, and you better believe I’m packing the hard stuff for later tonight
been teaching Maxine Beneba Clarke’s “Foreign Soil” to my year eleven mainstream English class for the past few weeks and none of them really seemed to vibe with it until today when we looked at the history of refugee policy and offshore detention in Australia
July 14, 2023 at 7:42 AM
been teaching Maxine Beneba Clarke’s “Foreign Soil” to my year eleven mainstream English class for the past few weeks and none of them really seemed to vibe with it until today when we looked at the history of refugee policy and offshore detention in Australia
Waited five volumes for this moment.
July 10, 2023 at 10:35 AM
Waited five volumes for this moment.