Elliot

Writer + editor, South London. Likes: grand narratives, white hot prose, toilet graffiti

[donald boat @laserboat999]

If your parents won't leave you alone during a period of extended unemployment just keep telling them that you're building "soft power"

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feel like a rockstar tbh

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Have suddenly started blowing up on substack. This is the most validating thing that's ever happened to me

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That's fucking right

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dear twitter follower, hi! you may remember me, surprise! I'm a very good writer and you should read this funny clever story I wrote about flouted ambition at Shakespeare & Company bookshop in Paris

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penned a real crowdpleaser. link, bio

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everyone wants a job in a bookstore till the biggest bookselling corporation in the UK fires you for ill-defined reasons that obviously have a lot to do with the impact of your disability on your work

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@bartlebytaco Also Joyce in Proteus -- "illstarred heresiarch"

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

Soviet mosaic "Exploring deep space", 1980. Tajikistan, Dushanbe, on the facade of a residential building.

[lolt64🕵️ @lolt64]

(watching crops burn) My yield!

[dolo @doloyeung]

Me: Bring out the waitress who called me a gamer freak yesterday. I want her to apologize again

Long John Silver's manager: Sir, she's not back there

Tutorial voice in my head: Close one eye to enable pirate vision. By enabling pirate vision you can see scallywags through walls

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penned a real crowdpleaser. link, bio

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@JeremyDLytle73 @beyond_capital sorry actually I decided this is boring

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@JeremyDLytle73 @beyond_capital ...so it's not just voluntary exchange, then?

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@JeremyDLytle73 @beyond_capital I think a working definition of "capitalism" should probably mention the "capital" aspect, hence it must be more than just voluntary exchange

[Lyra Sieradzka @lyrasie]

being the wokest person in the room is bad enough, but have you tried being in a room full of very unwoke people who *think* they're woker than you?

[Elliot @BurrNotice]

Sometimes you have trouble getting there

[Kristin M. Collier, MD @HSRdirector]

my favorite detail of Homer’s Odyssey didn’t make it into the film

the night when Odysseus reunites with Penelope is described as being miraculously prolonged

After Odysseus reveals himself to Penelope, Athena “held back the dawn” allowing Odysseus & Penelope more time together

[Gale Na @poisonjr]

i knew there was good shit. they never show us the good shit

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He's just like me

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

Adorno to his parents (New York, 1940):

“In these immeasurably horrific times… I am now unable to regain my balance even to a moderate degree, am barely sleeping at all, and stare as if paralysed into the black abyss sucking everything into its eddies and destroying it. [+]

[Morow Jävis Kærdenax @IneluctableQuak]

I often mock contemporary American fiction for being boring & provincial

but here’s a small sample of stellar contemporary American novels that aren’t either

(missing THE ORGANS OF SENSE by Adam Ehrlich Sachs from the photo because I can’t find my copy!)

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@EmmettStinson @sstrangio @aisiantonas @humanfranklin alright man

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@EmmettStinson @sstrangio @aisiantonas @humanfranklin Dude just read Time's Arrow you can knock it off in an afternoon