@saturnalreturn

by thinking of things you could understand them

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The problem is to get money #TheProblemIsToGetMoney
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Idk what it means for people online to identify as communists other than that their hearts are in the right place. But some of them seem stuck in an early 20th century that they never even experienced
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Everyone whose heart is in the right place is locked in a big room with everyone else whose heart is in the right place and all of the important decisions are being made in some other place by people without hearts
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I sorta think that intellectual movements can't be political movements and vice versa. People won't fight and die for correct ideas. They need an idea of something bigger than themselves to identify with and die for. That's a religious idea, and it won't be rigorous
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It's horrible to see a distinguished salt-and-pepper type man in brogues play freemium mobile games on the train. Shouldn't you be reading a John Updike novel? Why do they even print them anymore if you won't?
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2026: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih How It Is by Samuel Beckett
birds' hell@saturnalreturn20 Jan 2025
2025 reading: Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
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The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
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Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
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Remember the episode where a portal to hell was opened in Kramer's apartment and he elaborated to Jerry for hours upon its devils and their exquisite torments?
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The flesh suffers, Jerry [his head wobbles zanily] but the mind delights
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the more i think about it the more video games as a concept the more they horrify me. just a machine for totalizing disassociation which consumes days or years and leaves you with nothing
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Guy whose special interest is marketing and he listens to podcasts just to hear the ad reads
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Impeccable cover design
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From 1982. It's impressive that they knew enough to give Foucault the leather scene treatment. Most of the covers he's been given are far less daring, even stupid
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The Basque people want autonomy from Spain but they can't even make a cheesecake without burning it
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Type of shit Philip Marlowe would say after getting sapped
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i miss the guy i dated 2 months ago who would wake up so hungover in the morning he would say stuff like “i need a fucking rocket ship to the moon”
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#PipeDownYaBigDope
Daily Nancy Comic Strips.@Callicutt5JohnOct 18
July 01,1952
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One technique of authority figures is Baiting. They say "there are no stupid questions" to bait you into asking a question so they can make you feel stupid. They ask you for an explanation and when you explain they tell you not to make excuses. This is done in order to humiliate
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Above all they want you to feel, deep in your bones, that there is no escape. This is what Kafka's novels are about: the impossibility of communication or understanding along the gradient of power
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I gotta do another reread soon
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I live here
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The Houthis are alright with me
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