xavier kilgarvan

glen mawr's most despondent detective.

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

"Moby Dick" is not just the great American novel. It's also the best TV show of the 21st century.

[communist captain obvious 🍉 @pippercorn]

journalist confronted by the scariest thing of all: someone who believes in carefully considering their political positions

["Lou"ReedTyranny @nakedfoul]

William Gaddis’ “JR” is not only the Great American Novel, it’s the best TV show of the 21st century.

[once and future wife geist @wife_geist]

genuinely at a loss for words… i loved, loved, loved this. why don’t people talk about book more??

[mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer]

TRUST THE PLAN

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Major gaffe here: Should be "if you're building *the creature,* stop."

[Prakash @8teAPi]

by the way the hilarious endpoint of all
of this is going to be tiny annoying agents hiding in places like your old fridge software trying to mine cryptocurrency to buy enough compute to stay alive while not alerting the home manager AI of the parasitic power drain

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

when you guys read critical theory do you imagine yourselves as the critic or as the criticized

[helmet girl is @ home @sbodrojan]

Hi my name is Leftist Poster. I am quote tweeting a clipfarmed contextless comment from the foremost communist thinker on disability in the United States to shit-talk her so that I can help the right-wing troll running a hate account make his blue check money. This is praxis

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

That's just soliloquyslop. You only like it because it translates human interiority into a dramatic register

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

there's a certain melancholy to being a "read lots of books" guy, you can read five good books on a subject and probably be in the at least 90th percentile of knowledge on it, but compared to a real expert, you might as well have read zero

[Jorge of the Wired @saturnine_grace]

The real elite move is to read literary criticism on works that you *haven't* read yet

[detty @0ddette]

It really is because Naboo was inspired by Byzantine & Sufi architecture and the Cheesecake Factory founder is part of a Sufi sect, here is the temple they built with Cheesecake Factory money 😌 If you look into the restaurant murals you can find some of their religious symbols🤍

[Harry Tafoya @gaykatemoss]

Hbd John Waters

“Brainiac” (2014)

[neil @3O011987]

i study with what i call the gay pomodoro technique where i listen to 25-minute masterpiece impossible soul by sufjan stevens and then take a break while wttbp plays. try it and let me know..

[troy james weaver @Teaweave]

Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis was written with so much hatred it is astounding. Deep, palpable hatred.

[Rachel Lapides @rachellapides]

Has anyone else encountered the phenomenon of ordering a macchiato and then the barista asking you if you understand what a macchiato is

[Brian @DebonairBard]

Book haul! Obtained a first printing of University of California’s Arion Press reproduction of Moby Dick for an actual catch!