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J.N. Nagel

@PiousArtist

Musings of a sensitive young Norwegian man. «He is dressed in a striking yellow suit and has a small bottle of prussic acid hidden in his vest pocket…»

Joined December 2020
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Logging off for some time.
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La Rochefoucauld. Damn.
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Doubling down.
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Expanding my Fosse collection.
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@AmericanGwynSep 7
Karl Ove Knausgaard in his home library over the years.
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The Book Land (@the_book_land) profile pictureThe Book Land
@the_book_landSep 6
If you see this tweet, share one of your favourite paintings.
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Turgenev was the first Russian author to win a European reputation:
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Stéphane Mallarmé and Edgar Degas
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Mallarmé on reading
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“Sight isolates, sound incorporates. Whereas sight situates the observer outside what he views, at a distance, sound pours into the hearer.” Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy
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"But Dostoevsky is only for adolescents!!!"
Dylan O'Sullivan (@DylanoA4) profile pictureDylan O'Sullivan
@DylanoA4Sep 3
Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I’ve anything to learn. ― Friedrich Nietzsche Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss. ― Albert Einstein The real nineteenth century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx. ― Albert Camus
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@realKalosSep 3
This one hurt so good...
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Yama Pain@yama_painSep 2
Twitter's life advice is worthless. Read La Rochefoucauld instead. The wretched flicker of your self-esteem will not survive him.
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About 100 pages in currently. The peculiar thing about writing a novel is that you never know where it takes you. Sudden impulses have to be followed and suddenly your whole story is vastly different from what you originally planned. It’s crucial to not ignore the daimones.
J.N. Nagel (@PiousArtist) profile pictureJ.N. Nagel@PiousArtistJul 26
Writing a novel that’s currently ripping apart long repressed wounds. I feel nauseous.
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@BretVDBMay 5
“It seems to be a law of literature that the more strictly limited its environment is, the more universal its appeal. Faulkner writes of his unpronounceable county in Mississippi and gets the Nobel Prize in Sweden, while novelists writing of the dilemma of modern man would get nowhere.” —Northrop Frye, “Criticism and Environment”
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George MacDonald’s masterpiece—
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M. H. Huisman (@MHHuisman) profile pictureM. H. Huisman@MHHuismanAug 30
Is there any better feeling than coming home after a summer of travel?
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Rest gently, King
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La Rochefoucauld on great souls
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