Honestly, when the DTMF first came out…my tik-tok feed was full of everyone from the Balkans to SE Asia to Latin America to Africa posting their own neighbourhood, photos of their own “white chairs”, their own community parties, their own beautiful fields and seas.
"And what does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity."
- William S. Burroughs
Men should always remember that if you dress modestly, limit your ambitions, and learn how to submit, a good woman will marry you and make your life complete.
What makes Annie Ernaux interesting is that she waits like 40 years to write about her messy and insane feelings with a degree of perspective and remove, always triangulating who she is now in relation to who she was then. Some of you are just saying “here is what I did today”