John Darnielle writes that The Recognition Scene is about learning your life story is a tragedy (I suspect he's probably thinking of words like hamartia and anagnorisis because of his classics background)
February 6, 2026 at 2:26 AM
John Darnielle writes that The Recognition Scene is about learning your life story is a tragedy (I suspect he's probably thinking of words like hamartia and anagnorisis because of his classics background)
This was wr to reflect similar concerns
February 1, 2026 at 10:42 AM
This was wr to reflect similar concerns
Architecture’s unnecessary when you have your finger on the (shared) hamartia of so many…
bsky.app/profile/kjhe...
bsky.app/profile/kjhe...
As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
![That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women.
Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreidpuxbx764xh7vobavcnvs3v2lo5fnfi6dukfrmk3ygxmseznkyxi@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Architecture’s unnecessary when you have your finger on the (shared) hamartia of so many…
bsky.app/profile/kjhe...
bsky.app/profile/kjhe...
D’you ever put on 5 minutes of a podcast to fill the air while brushing your teeth and get handed the first key for an essay you’ve been thinking about assembling for the best part of two decades?
GSSB’s discussion of Ensslin’s “Literary Gaming” use of hamartia is just what I needed
GSSB’s discussion of Ensslin’s “Literary Gaming” use of hamartia is just what I needed
January 26, 2026 at 4:25 PM
D’you ever put on 5 minutes of a podcast to fill the air while brushing your teeth and get handed the first key for an essay you’ve been thinking about assembling for the best part of two decades?
GSSB’s discussion of Ensslin’s “Literary Gaming” use of hamartia is just what I needed
GSSB’s discussion of Ensslin’s “Literary Gaming” use of hamartia is just what I needed
Your republic cannot be saved and must instead be razed to the ground. Salt the earth. Learn from the failures.
It had an essential hamartia ('all men created equal') that's led to this moment, and it is not an aberration so much as a realization.
Don't try to rise again until you can do better.
It had an essential hamartia ('all men created equal') that's led to this moment, and it is not an aberration so much as a realization.
Don't try to rise again until you can do better.
January 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Your republic cannot be saved and must instead be razed to the ground. Salt the earth. Learn from the failures.
It had an essential hamartia ('all men created equal') that's led to this moment, and it is not an aberration so much as a realization.
Don't try to rise again until you can do better.
It had an essential hamartia ('all men created equal') that's led to this moment, and it is not an aberration so much as a realization.
Don't try to rise again until you can do better.
The low-maintenance makeup of a stainless steak cutting board comes with a fatal hamartia: Stainless steel cutting boards wreak havoc on your knives.
The Major Downside Of Using A Stainless Steel Cutting Board - Tasting Table
www.tastingtable.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:03 AM
The low-maintenance makeup of a stainless steak cutting board comes with a fatal hamartia: Stainless steel cutting boards wreak havoc on your knives.
The low-maintenance makeup of a stainless steak cutting board comes with a fatal hamartia: Stainless steel cutting boards wreak havoc on your knives.
The Major Downside Of Using A Stainless Steel Cutting Board - Tasting Table
www.tastingtable.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
The low-maintenance makeup of a stainless steak cutting board comes with a fatal hamartia: Stainless steel cutting boards wreak havoc on your knives.
parce que l'anglais est mouvant et éminemment locuteur-centré.
No need to pernoctate over this, though. Your malobservation stemmed not from hamartia, but rather an ill-informed evagation. Hope you'll forgive my haphazard macrologie. 😏
No need to pernoctate over this, though. Your malobservation stemmed not from hamartia, but rather an ill-informed evagation. Hope you'll forgive my haphazard macrologie. 😏
October 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
parce que l'anglais est mouvant et éminemment locuteur-centré.
No need to pernoctate over this, though. Your malobservation stemmed not from hamartia, but rather an ill-informed evagation. Hope you'll forgive my haphazard macrologie. 😏
No need to pernoctate over this, though. Your malobservation stemmed not from hamartia, but rather an ill-informed evagation. Hope you'll forgive my haphazard macrologie. 😏
Sun Worship Does Nothing To Fill Bank Accounts -
When One Tries Hard To Be Honest,
Truthful To Fault To Hamartia.
Achilles Injury Eased Up Hill,
Runners,
Not Flip Flops,
Black Bear Bangers,
As Norm.
If They Could Work To 70,
Why Can't I?
Your Neck & Spine & Joints Are Shot.
So?
Jury-Rig.
But-
Nah.
When One Tries Hard To Be Honest,
Truthful To Fault To Hamartia.
Achilles Injury Eased Up Hill,
Runners,
Not Flip Flops,
Black Bear Bangers,
As Norm.
If They Could Work To 70,
Why Can't I?
Your Neck & Spine & Joints Are Shot.
So?
Jury-Rig.
But-
Nah.
September 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Sun Worship Does Nothing To Fill Bank Accounts -
When One Tries Hard To Be Honest,
Truthful To Fault To Hamartia.
Achilles Injury Eased Up Hill,
Runners,
Not Flip Flops,
Black Bear Bangers,
As Norm.
If They Could Work To 70,
Why Can't I?
Your Neck & Spine & Joints Are Shot.
So?
Jury-Rig.
But-
Nah.
When One Tries Hard To Be Honest,
Truthful To Fault To Hamartia.
Achilles Injury Eased Up Hill,
Runners,
Not Flip Flops,
Black Bear Bangers,
As Norm.
If They Could Work To 70,
Why Can't I?
Your Neck & Spine & Joints Are Shot.
So?
Jury-Rig.
But-
Nah.
Many a tradgedy is
born from that
devil known as ambition
that great hamartia
that can drag you down
when seek to win a long lost love
or build a business empire
bigger than your parent's stockpile
a palace gilded in gold
a statement of wealth
bright and bold
#RetroArtPrompt
#Ambition
born from that
devil known as ambition
that great hamartia
that can drag you down
when seek to win a long lost love
or build a business empire
bigger than your parent's stockpile
a palace gilded in gold
a statement of wealth
bright and bold
#RetroArtPrompt
#Ambition
September 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Many a tradgedy is
born from that
devil known as ambition
that great hamartia
that can drag you down
when seek to win a long lost love
or build a business empire
bigger than your parent's stockpile
a palace gilded in gold
a statement of wealth
bright and bold
#RetroArtPrompt
#Ambition
born from that
devil known as ambition
that great hamartia
that can drag you down
when seek to win a long lost love
or build a business empire
bigger than your parent's stockpile
a palace gilded in gold
a statement of wealth
bright and bold
#RetroArtPrompt
#Ambition
There are now 20 years old reviews to be found on the Rate Your Music site. This kind of blows my mind. Have we really been doing this online shit for so long now?
August 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
There are now 20 years old reviews to be found on the Rate Your Music site. This kind of blows my mind. Have we really been doing this online shit for so long now?
"Afta sum soul searchin, I think I've discovered ma #hamartia," Riz said, crawling onto my shoulder.
"I don't know what that means?" I replied.
"It means fatal flaw in Greek, only us intellectuals know dat."
"Well, clearly your flaw isn't being humble."
#vss365 #riztherogue
"I don't know what that means?" I replied.
"It means fatal flaw in Greek, only us intellectuals know dat."
"Well, clearly your flaw isn't being humble."
#vss365 #riztherogue
July 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"Afta sum soul searchin, I think I've discovered ma #hamartia," Riz said, crawling onto my shoulder.
"I don't know what that means?" I replied.
"It means fatal flaw in Greek, only us intellectuals know dat."
"Well, clearly your flaw isn't being humble."
#vss365 #riztherogue
"I don't know what that means?" I replied.
"It means fatal flaw in Greek, only us intellectuals know dat."
"Well, clearly your flaw isn't being humble."
#vss365 #riztherogue
" #Hamartia ?” Ginnes said and wondered what it even meant and why did she start to talk to him. “It ain’t right that a father leaves his flesh for others to raise. It ain’t right. I know of your son. It ain’t right.” Ginnes shook his head and climbed the stairs faster. #vss365
July 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"Loneliness was your #hamartia," Rob Roy to Cosmo. "The love songs you sang, being a bratty diva freak..." He lifted his brows. "It was the perfect prey for the government."
Cosmo rolled his eyes. "That wasn't my downfall. The deck was stacked."
"And you added to it." #vss365
Cosmo rolled his eyes. "That wasn't my downfall. The deck was stacked."
"And you added to it." #vss365
a man in a white shirt is standing next to a red car
ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing next to a red car
media.tenor.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
~
Your eyes—my hamartia—
where I buried soft parts of me.
Don’t leave, my love.
Even angels burn at the cookout
of your leaving.
You fall like autumn,
bruise like winter,
make my hands bleed—
I worship where you walked
In your silence,
the screams seduce
Let me die a little—
but with you
Your eyes—my hamartia—
where I buried soft parts of me.
Don’t leave, my love.
Even angels burn at the cookout
of your leaving.
You fall like autumn,
bruise like winter,
make my hands bleed—
I worship where you walked
In your silence,
the screams seduce
Let me die a little—
but with you
July 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
~
Your eyes—my hamartia—
where I buried soft parts of me.
Don’t leave, my love.
Even angels burn at the cookout
of your leaving.
You fall like autumn,
bruise like winter,
make my hands bleed—
I worship where you walked
In your silence,
the screams seduce
Let me die a little—
but with you
Your eyes—my hamartia—
where I buried soft parts of me.
Don’t leave, my love.
Even angels burn at the cookout
of your leaving.
You fall like autumn,
bruise like winter,
make my hands bleed—
I worship where you walked
In your silence,
the screams seduce
Let me die a little—
but with you
