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Writing is What Happens While You’re Busy Making Other Plans

Making beauty, or deriving pleasure (two expressions of the same thing), where one shouldn’t: that’s what makes the beauty, brings the pleasure. I do my best work when I shouldn’t.

Anything Not Saved Will Be Lost

This kind of place feels almost inevitable, doesn’t it? After all, what could be more natural than this pursuit, than to try and catch memories falling from the sky? We clutch at nostalgia, tie it to technology, let our yearning find purchase on wires and bytes. It doesn’t matter that each piece of data is as mortal as we are.

A struggle to get past the first chapter: Are university students really forgetting how to read? 

Universities are supposed to be a bastion of high learning and enlightened thinking; the fact that many people turn up to these respected institutions without the ability to meet lofty challenges suggests something is very wrong with the state of education. 

Review: Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. Mark Polizzotti

The novella moves between storytellers and versions of history, delivering a story that could never fit into a single truth or archive box.

Say My Name, Say My Name

My name belongs to me, but I’m seldom it.

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It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified

– Friedrich Nietzsche,

Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik

Recent Supplements

 

148.1

Time needs a watcher, and when you close your eyes / the voices sound the same.

 

148.2

returns to the cave / rolls back the stone / remembers again / what it is to die

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