Justin Boening

Author of Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last (@Milkweed_Books, 2016). Opinions are your own.

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How is it that the significance of a building can accrue as it falls apart?

Since Bannerman’s weapons warehouse burned in 1969, it became one of the Hudson’s most romantic ruins.

Check out the latest in Peacham. Story by @KeithYorkCity

https://t.co/DFOveMAxPj

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Poet folks, I want every single psychopath to own a copy of this book.

If you want a copy, or want to gift one, share your favorite Devon Walker-Figueroa poem below along with a description of why.

I’ll send a signed copy to the first 20 responses. https://t.co/DC503PBrOj

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The most densely populated place on Earth in the late 1800s had LOWER disease mortality rates than the Manhattan average.

Immigrants were blamed for spreading disease, but the housing built for them actually made NYC safer.

Full article in Peacham

https://t.co/N72K8eKJKS

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@Powell_DA Why force yourself to choose? Why not live in the vitalizing mystery of the question?

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Remember: in four years from now, he’ll be twelve years older than he is today.

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@remythequill @DeVonciFig I promise you the contents won’t compete with Kafka. But thanks for diving in.

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@DeVonciFig A poem must come from an ever. It must be capable of infuriating. And it must contain the with. According to Wallace Stevens, you’re doing pretty alright.

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@rtsupplee @InlibroV Exactly

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@rtsupplee @InlibroV Why expect a spontaneous overflow when the appearance of spontaneity can be equally enduring?

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@DeVonciFig That was me, losing my religion.

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@rtsupplee @InlibroV I’m discouraged that no one told me sooner. And yet I feel liberated by the discovery. What’s your reaction?

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Did you all know that Berryman was remixing Kafka? And if you did, why didn’t you tell me? Why don’t you want me to be happy?

[In Libro Veritas @InlibroV]

“I hate everything that does not relate to literature; conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the joys and sorrows of my relatives bore me to my soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.”

Franz Kafka
Diary, 1918

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@TomSnarsky @jej_sen Poetry is a destructive force.

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@nowarwarren You must be working out. Good for you.

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@MarcelRuzicka5 @DeVonciFig You bore me, Steve. I’ve know the whole time. And that’s why I’ve ignored your stupid game.

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Fatalism is strong in Kafka. And it always will be.

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

In the struggle between yourself and the world, you must side with the world.

- Franz Kafka

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Super looking forward to reading with these fine folks on the other side of the pond. If you plan to be in Glasgow, explain yourself. Also come to this reading.

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@kaicarlsonwee What about films by folks like: Yorgos Lanthimos, Lars von Trier, Valdimar Jóhannsson, Ruben Östlund? It’s admittedly much harder to find these film makers than it had been. But the film making is super exciting. And of course Malick and Tarantino are still making films (ish).

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@MikhailBazharov It’s good to be dead.