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rien faire, comme une bête

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N.b. Paddy considered going with ‘Heartbreak,’ but that is (of course) not a boy’s name :/

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Songs where a father names his son after the concept of unbounded desire

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Songs where a father names his son after the concept of unbounded desire

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I actually don’t know if he’s still got it because I haven’t listened yet. But it’s a funny fucking title! Album art good too

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This is such a good title. Rob’s still got it…

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@chasingdogma54 I should have said ‘short of material constraints’ which includes all you’ve named, really. But I will cop to the fact that my assuming this referred to an emotional/psychic reality says more about me than your post lol

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@chasingdogma54 Love in the broadest sense. Short of actual physical constraints, how else is one set free or trapped by another person?

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@chasingdogma54 You were talking about love!

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@cfm121 Yar

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I had a great prof (the executor of Auden's lit. estate!) who was gently inducing me to be his mentee, but I rebuffed him bc I was a little shit, obsessed with Jameson, and dismissed prof as a 'liberal humanist,' a phrase I could NOT stop parroting my freshman year.

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Was lost but now am found yay

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@dinosaur_info I liked this just for Don's last line. 'Why are you cursing?' 🤨

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@nonchalantly_ @stevenwatts Theory of the Novel. 'The novel is the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God.' Maybe 'restore totality' doesn't appear exactly but that's the gist of the thing. And the word 'totality' obvi comes up a bunch just not in anything quite so punchy and so memorable

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And Terry Eagleton🤓

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I was skipping high school lunches to read so much bad queer theory man. Those routledges were so expensive, my dad was mad af. So yeah. I used to die bout this theory shit. Don't play with me...

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I had a great prof (the executor of Auden's lit. estate!) who was gently inducing me to be his mentee, but I rebuffed him bc I was a little shit, obsessed with Jameson, and dismissed prof as a 'liberal humanist,' a phrase I could NOT stop parroting my freshman year.

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@nonchalantly_ @stevenwatts oh sure, I hear the resonances, I'm just saying the op is straight up quoting Lukacs lol. more citations smh

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@dennismhogan I am PRO such a culture, btw 😍

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Were grown men really buying teddy bears after the release of Brideshead Revisited, the miniseries. This is what my British friend was told by his parents. I don't doubt silk scarves were purchased. And worn.

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@dennismhogan This is what happens when you produce a culture where being mincing is considered charming instead of contemptible

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@jobs_never https://t.co/qUufReHHcP

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For me, above all: sensitivity. And what comes right behind it: surprise. You can’t hear history, you can’t hear the unconscious, you can’t hear anything if you’re not sensitive, at the bare level of what gets said; if you can’t let yourself be surprised by this saying.

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I feel sorry for the grad student who can only see literary texts as dummies to ventriloquize their warmed-over philosophy or theory. To only see what one already knows, over and over again, in everything. Supremely sad.

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@nonchalantly_ @stevenwatts ya

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@nonchalantly_ @stevenwatts I thought it was Lukacs…