Siobhan Brier Aguilar

Writer. YouTube channel @siobhanbrieraguilar

[Siobhan Brier Aguilar @sioauthor]

I wrote this piece about a young woman in my program who passed away when I was studying abroad in Spain. Thank you @gabriellen_vega for your help with it. Please share this article if you get something out of it.
https://t.co/bIF0dSVjqw

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Nothing goes harder than Anne Carson's translation of Euripides.

[gigi @ptriiichor]

unfortunately i fuck heavily with the pope’s new encyclical

[✮ راينر براون @dondawastaken]

Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Ok, so I learned that these are called phonesthemes :)

[Siobhan Brier Aguilar @sioauthor]

@marcosalvarado_ Oh these are 🔥🔥🔥

[mila @dadubiouschunk]

I guess they want me to read out loud

[Siobhan Brier Aguilar @sioauthor]

@1fenlon Hope you dont have a weak stomach reading this book.

[homoyuri @crosshairlvr]

finding out the artemis ii astronauts talked with poets and studied poetry so they knew how to properly convey what they were seeing in words and saying that the arts played a huge role in their time in space. oh my god

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Scraping websites and having AI summarize them, so that no one visits the websites, is theft.

Training AI on videos, so that it can make new videos that compete with them, is theft.

We are witnessing the largest theft of creative work in history.

[Siobhan Brier Aguilar @sioauthor]

@KaliYugaSurfCo My fav contrapasto is Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass

[alex peysakhovich @alex_peys]

got a framed copy to hang by the ai team

[Siobhan Brier Aguilar @sioauthor]

@gabydvj It exceeded my expectations but my expectations were very low to begin with. Not a Bad book but sloppy and rushed with a rich father-in-law playing deus ex machina, leading to plot holes.

[Eduardo García-Molina @eduardo_garcmol]

“The Odyssey teaser trailer”? You mean the Iliad?

[Paul Heron @Paul_Heron_]

Not that I knew anything about Borges when I bought this toward the end of ‘99.

Remains the best collection of short fiction I’ve read.

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

By far, the best writing I’ve ever done felt more like reading than composing, like I was taking dictation, like a voice was speaking somewhere inside me and I was just trying to get the words on paper before they disappeared.

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded.

At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him.

It worked. He had a seizure on the spot.

They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing.

When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline.

He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later.

Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language.

The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief.

That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness."

He earned the right to say it.

its never over. never give up fren.

[Gazetory @gazetory]

Panama'da yüzlerce yaşında olduğu düşünülen dev bir deniz kaplumbağası görüntülendi.

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

Literature is humanity’s longest conversation with itself about what it means to be alive. It has been going on for thousands of years. You are not late, you are not unqualified, you are not too much or too little or too broken. Pull up a chair. This conversation was always about you.