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the bit of that book that always stuk with me was Williams' "escalator of pastoralism"—pages of quotes from British thinkers about how the generation right before them was this agrarian ideal, the untamed countryside only recently conquered. And that you can reliably trace these comments, in abundance, back across generations til you hit prehistory
 

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A bit heartwarming, actually, knowing that you can make relationships online wherein each one is perfectly willing to answer any easily googlable question the other poses. I've done it quite a bit here.
 

sus

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naw City & Country came first they owe me big on the trademark
 
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There's a few very ropey euro trance ones on towards the end. I've actually snipped out the best tracks, from this and Anna and eli's one, to make a single CD.
 

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Kaitlin Phillips piece on Cat Marnell's new memoir. It plays out the quasi-feminist televised fascination with women who defy norms, defy traditional ideas of adulthood— the kind of person who writes her "rent checks in highlighter." [...] Hers is a life lived—selfishly, wildly, and (mostly) unapologetically—without responsibility, or relationships burdened by traditional directive controls, like those with boyfriends or best friends... Marnell defies, consciously or not, the social structures that keep women behaving well in private.

The Dasha Nekrasova school of Woman Unshackled By Society is interesting because its spins this "it-girl under the influence" archetype in with heterosexual traditionalism—learned helplessness recast as abnegated obligations; an adderall addiction somewhere between '50s housewife and downtown party girl; a coke habit paired with lingerie and white wine for Mr. Breadwinner.
 
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