it’s crazy interacting with new people in your late 20s/early 30s and realizing what experiences are universal
like thinking YMO was cheesy on first listen and later realizing they’re amazing
There's an old saying in Schelling—I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling—that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again
图1最左是1915年周恩来17岁时在南开学堂新剧团的女装形象。
Figure 1, leftmost, shows Zhou Enlai at age 17 in a female role costume for the Nankai School's new drama troupe in 1915.
i’m in traffic tallying where other cars are scratched or bumped so i can reinforce my OWN car in all the OTHER places in order to increase my chances of survivorship
think im gonna start riffing on the classic [asian ingredient] + [western coffee drink] formula…maybe like a doubanjiang cortado or a baijiu einspanner
Impressive... the sophisticated television-addict children have abandoned the tyranny of specificity and verisimilitude, and attempt instead to render the figure qua Figure, the body 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘦.