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Giving Ulysses a crack. Got stuck on the Shakespeare library dialogue a week ago and haven't picked it up since.

All our countryside is cultivated land. Bureaucratic landscape. Mondrian nightmare land. Really making me insane the more I think about it. What you want, ideally, is a binary of total city and total nature. The feeling of an inside and an outside.

I'm increasingly convinced that as a cultural site, music has lost its relevance. It doesn't feel essential anymore. The meaning of what it communicated--something once self-evident and immediate, something that always acted as an internal guiding principle--has dissipated. Leaving us with an...

Bresson's notebooks. Pretty good. Has these great out of context lines like "The ejaculatory force of the eye."

what did you think?

that's probably an obvious observation but i can't seem to get over it

the problem with money is it has become too absurd. it's always been absurd but it's now getting shoved in your face 24/7 how the worst most stupid people you can imagine are raking in money on generic schemes while normal people are killing themselves over not having enough. it simultaneously...

apparently there is a new breed of tik tok influencers showing young enterprising men how to make easy bucks online. they say if you're over 20 and have less then 10k in the bank then you're a pathetic loser

SLow Horses is decent

well yes that's true

I think it's getting more difficult to pull off being poor. There's this ambient sense of bourgeois cultural dominance that I didn't feel 5-10 years ago. It's working on us between the lines.

The book is a great. He's got a great writing style when it comes to art, I think. Quite unlike any other I've read. Writes in these pithy, declarative sentences that are also stange and riddling. Then moves on. Very determined to keep language at a distance to the sphere of art, yet still able...

One thing I'm seeing a lot is this sort of exchange: a: it was worse than any other thing in history. they mass raped all the women and children they got their hands on. b: well there are records of rape but nothing to suggest that it was carried out wide scale or in systematic fashion. a/c...

What was the verdict on the new Scorsese on here? Personally I thought it was fantastic

Well I don't know but I don't think they're planning for Ancelotti to stick around another season.