i'd be up for a Hardcore-mode of xitter discourse... one in which the user has to stake Followers or risk their account being deleted for being wrong, total neo-tribal warfare.
They always include a works cited. But I get the angsty teenage reaction posturing as erudition, insisting on the absolute untranslatability of sacred works to signal virtue to peers just as desperate and noxious
It should be common practice for translation "readers" to cite, not the name of the original author, but their translator. Instead of saying that they have read Cervantes or Homer, they should say "I have read Edith Grossman" or "I have read Wilson's Odyssey".
I cannot stand the smell of books or the forced nostalgia conjured by musk and mildew. I shall dunk no madeleine in my tea, for I crave the senseless, the cold edge.
TIME (OUR): Thunder against. Lament the fact that it is not poetical. Call it a time of transition, of decadence.
Dictionary of Platitudes, Gustave Flaubert
TIME (OUR): Thunder against. Lament the fact that it is not poetical. Call it a time of transition, of decadence.
Dictionary of Platitudes, Gustave Flaubert
Pessimism, if it truly existed, would hardly bother to speak. But it speaks. & in not wanting to STFU, it clings to life. If you take their sadness away, you also take away their joy.