Sydney Goldstein

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

@Nanditaa_K ... It’s my biggest personal philosophy so it was cool to hear the way he spoke about it and that he got the message to a group of ppl going out into the world #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

@Nanditaa_K I’m so glad that this was a central point of the speech. I feel communication is one of the hardest skills to learn for ppl, and that this type of empathy he brings up is a big step in the right direction....#laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

@LKoncsol ...I think he screwed up his delivery or something because I’m the video I could hear his audience laughing at parts that were supposed to be a bit jarring and not funny, but I think The speech was to call out this kind of behavior and warn against becoming part of it #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

@LKoncsol I agree to an extent with this. I agree the suicide bit went too far, but as for the rest of it I think his point was to show that this way of thinking is making people a whole bunch of asshats....#laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

In Aubade Larkin seems to have a negative tone towards religion and other ways of ignoring that death is inevitable. But do u think that things like religion or hope that there’s something beyond death are such a bad thing? Is it so bad to live in hope rather than fear? #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

I would have thought that death is more of a subject mulled over before sleep because it could come with a fear of not waking up the next day, but instead the narrator contemplates at dawn. Thoughts on this? #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

Aubade touches on the one thing that every human being fears at the very least for a brief moment in their life: death. I find it interesting that it’s title means it’s a “poem appropriate to the early morning.”

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

This story of Vonnegut’s gave me lots of Black Mirror vibes. He gave us a world in which technology solved a problem that sounded great in theory, but when actually used it turned out to have a negative impact. Very similar to the Arkangel episode. #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

@youareasaucyboy @litwithlayton #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

@youareasaucyboy @litwithlayton ... But Gay repeats the word “perhaps” to encourage ppl to see more than the dangerous stereotype we’ve created for big, black men like Garner Bc he was wrongly judged and was actually a gentle man who allows others to breathe even after his own breath has been unjustly taken.

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

Barzov could also be HD Bc he saw himself as above the likes of Kelly, but when Kelly beat him his resolve cracked and he didn’t kill the Americans Bc killing all of Kelly’s men would not change the fact that he had been bested by an American #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

The title “All the King’s Horses” puts an emphasis Kelly’s sons to hone in on the moral dilemma at hand, but it also reminds me of the story “Humpty-Dumpty.” Do u think there was a subtle connection to that story Vonnegut was making? If so, who in the story is HD? #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

I think Pi Ying could be HD Bc he was sitting on his high perch thinking he was above it all but all of the death he caused the Americans couldn’t save him from the failure he made to recognize the young woman’s adversity to what he was doing which ultimately killed him #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

What is the point of the anti-aging shots? I find them very ironic since the main reason people want to look young is to be more desirable to other people, and the whole point of this society is to NOT act on desire. #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

@LKoncsol Another possible motive could be that the numbness and lack of the kind of passion in life that would come with sex could help encourage people to go to the Suicide Parlors. Their lives sound so monotonous and bleak that it could motivate suicide to decrease the pop #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

Why is she pulling an Anna from frozen and marrying a man she barely even knows? #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

Is it just me or does Catherine not seem to know to much about her fiancé? She’s extremely vague about the “many, many, many things” that are good about Henry, and says how there are “probably” many bad things too.

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

Real footage of Newt and Catherine #laylit20 :

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She’s been nagging him that it’s wrong, failing as she finds they keep continuing their walk, and by the end she surrenders to her feelings for him. #laylit20

[Sydney Goldstein @sydnopsis]

When Catherine falls asleep she hears an automobile that “nagged ans failed, nagged ans failed, fell still.” That is kind of how she has been doing the entire day, trying to get away from Newt.