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Human • Hungry • Asleep.

[President-Elect Toguro @PresidentToguro]

Definitely an oversimplification of Pynchon. In The Crying of Lot 49, he writes about maxwells demon, postal service in the holy Roman empire (and after), Jung, Freud, and the John Birch Society. All of this and more in a very short novel mind you. Yes, he did include some pop culture references such as The Beatles and The Roadrunner, but the appeal is that he's a well read guy in both obscure history, science and pop culture and he is able to weave that together to form a coherent story.

He studied engineering physics at Cornell and later English lit. He took a class by Nabokov. He's just proof that an "intellectual" can appreciate the greatness of looney tunes.

[🧃🐦‍⬛🧃 @jusdcanneberge]

The reason people are incapable of being normal about this is that everyone’s brains have been fried by social media polarizationslop and think they need to take sides on everything instead of just being sad about a tragic incident

[v.g @insufficentfund]

There's a certain subset of people who caricaturize Pynchon as just a stoner who watched TV and read trashy paperbacks and comicbooks; They ignore the part where he's also an extremely well read/researched man and that clash of culture is what makes it pop.

[Thoka🧑🏿‍🚀 @thoka_2]

People are really disingenuous about legend of korra… it objectively looks better than ATLA

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@markruffaloTD Goodreads is the most popular

[Goodreads @goodreads]

THE (HALF) STARS HAVE ALIGNED!

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

You cannot be a leftist- or in any event a decent human being- and walk away from the university humanities. This is class war; making these fields only available to an aristocracy is the opposite of using literacy, critical thinking, and the spread of ideas to better the world.

[ISA @isatron123]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but reading the textbook is the easiest way to study ever

[jon repetti @pourfairelevide]

Seems to me that a lot of trendy education theory & practice is just not ready to admit that the vast majority of kids do not “naturally” want to learn what they are being taught.

Learning is often boring & frustrating. You have to teach kids to tolerate boredom & frustration.

[hima ⊙⊝⊜ @tomorrow_413]

Can this generation do activism outside liking or disliking celebs 😭😭 please 😭😭😭

[tyler @walletcheck]

the most commonly heard argument for reading great books is that they develop empathy. maybe that's true. but i think it's less appreciated that they also teach you humility: that you're not that smart, you're not that special, and someone has had all your ideas before

[Cogito @cogito_yuri]

Evil characters don't need a backstory because no character needs a backstory. Demanding a backstory for everyone is terminal lore brain. What's important is the character be written with complexity.

[kyle @Caol_MacCormaic]

I really don't want to harp on this person but I really need my English teacher friends to hammer home to their students the idea that you are the Reader, a particular and vital role in the literary world, and not the Author nor the Characters.

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@FabrizioART @riemaennchen Lifesteal

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@ShermanMad42259 @3kingvisions Sounds like you care

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@MurdocksMother @Rof33S 3 episodes btw

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@BTtjb1 @EdifiedMetsFan @EthanEAJ @x0Starlight John isn't "just better." Being a perfect soldier is a recipe for disaster. They both need to figure things out

[ETHOS @DevEthos]

I NEED TO KNOW WHO AT @bitreactor WORKED ON THESE BLACK HAIRSTYLES!!?!?! YA COOKED!!! WE APPRECIATE IT! 🔥

[🧛🏿‍♀️🧟‍♂️IT WAS A GRAVEYARD SMASH!!🧟‍♂️🧛🏿‍♀️ @astro_v4mp]

The current state of Fandom has done unfathomable things to storytelling. No one wants to engage with stories anymore they just wanna kill the author and insert their headcanons from jump and I have to ask once again why dont yall make your own shit

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@SpicyOFA @ElPibeVioleta @IrishLiam7 @sandwicchhh keep circling, eventually you'll figure it out