the first paragraph of clarice lispector’s first story. a miracle of economy and feast for the senses, i think we can tell why she became one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
@Cary_O_Cary Mid for me, it spends a lot of time contemplating its own deployment of literary devices in a way that didn’t feel particularly interesting or insightful. Imo when That Cohort starts doing its synchronised wagon circling thing about a new novel you can usually just ignore it
The Palantir merch guy becomes less of a lolcow when you find out that he's Lebanese, meaning there's a non-zero chance he has helped to kill his own relatives. He is a tragic figure who needs to be given grace
Cathy Horyn on Raf Simons' SS05:
'What Mr. Simons did in an instant was to render the day, and most of the previous one of the spring men’s collections, obsolete.'
תראו את מי מצאנו בארכיון שלנו! מזהים?
*צולם לאחר שהוא החליט שהוא מעכב סיור שלנו בדרום הר חברון בלי שום סיבה. "אין משטרה, אני הריבון". אמר ולא לגמרי טעה.
Tucker Carlson is probably the most talented political interviewer since Oriana Fallaci but with the tradeoff that for every Mike Huckabee or Ted Cruz he lands you have to watch him interview 100 kick streamers, LLM tradwives and exorcists
@graveair Increasingly bad aspect of modern life is having to hear about Anthropic all the time. The wideeyed quirk chungus selfdirected gasping, the doomsday prophetic high-pressure sales tactics, the unconcealed hostility to non-autistic modes of being
My parents warned me about one type of bad influences in life, which are the people who waste away their life in aimless hedonism (drugs, partying, sex, etc.), but another type of bad influences they didn't warn me about are what we could call *time-wasting friends*,