“Gothic” literatures: Southern, Puritan, Victorian, Russian, Latin American/magical realist to some extent, Bengali, post-Mughal, what are some others?
People talk about Reddit countries (Japan, Norway etc.) but I think the UK is the clearest example of a twitter country.
Miserable, cynical population that is never happy with anything but is still rather witty and creative. Everyone despises the place for different reasons too.
if there was an “entry riff” that every person had i like to think mine would be a Hindustani classical composition on tabla and harmonium that fades into garish jungle beats
"Why do they do this? It must be some deep spiritual thing right?"
Spanish priest who has to deal with the unbelievable stink of pilgrims every year: "Um yeah its a spiritual thing"
the great tragedy for American urbanists is not simply the fact that America’s urban environments are riddled with seemingly intractable issues it’s that we had the raw material to be a genuinely great urban culture. to attain the greatest form of human urban life yet
i may be boiled alive for this take but i do think America’s cities are very very beautiful
this country was for good and bad founded with a bit of a green thumb and it shows in the urban environments
So just to be clear the (Chicago-born) editor in chief of the Jerusalem Post is explicitly rejecting the American model of individual freedom. He is demanding a Lebanon-style republic where people are classified by race and religion.
What a joke! Also, access to Indian material is far easier outside India where archives & libraries don’t gate keep & have proper updated catalogs. They employ professional archivists & staff, allow photographing manuscripts & also provide high res digital copies, mostly for free
@normalmaxxedaj indeed, and i am not helping by describing “maybe being like 20% less sexually repressed than before” as “becoming a demented gooner” lmao
i have long been very prim and prudish, and all the while being a trans woman was mostly about being a demented gooner. i am only *now* becoming something of a demented gooner, when trans women are kind of collectively deciding that the demented gooner thing is lame