I was reading Steinbeck's East of Eden and found a 2008 Walgreens receipt on which someone copied out the passage:
"A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?"
@thelaundrymat …in that the Young Lion narrator is holding on desperately to a mantra delivered to them by someone else, and Hope is the mantra not just gripped but formed by an understanding of your own, increasingly passé experience. love your take though, going to sit with that awhile!!
@thelaundrymat interesting connection b/w songs you’re drawing that I hadn’t considered before. agree they’re two albums deep into a maze of self-reference, but Hope seems more directly in conversation with Young Lion to me
mad men season 6 is so funky- there’s a deeply specific rhythm to how the narrative and photography highlight and then body slam the characters that got me faded as heck 💯. why can’t I just say I like somethin
I know these accounts are just for open-secret guerrilla marketing that it is unethical to engage with or be moved by but the use of the word “dude” here I am finding genuinely delightful
First look at Alexander Skarsgård as a dude made of wicker in ‘WICKER’.
The film follows an embarrassed fisherwoman who asks a basket maker to make her a husband out of wicker.
@bartlebytaco I read one by F.J. Sheed last year that was really rewarding. Second edition also has notes (from another scholar) that contextualize the cultural and biblical references in a way that enhanced the experience too
scared that I look like an idiot or coward shifting in my seat every 4 seconds while reading William Gass at the cafe but the prose does make you wanna dance a lil tbf