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Irresponsible
Writers talk about writing what you know. “Good writing is true writing,” says Hemingway. “If a man[!] is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would…
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With, Next-To
I was listening to an old talk given by Žižek in which he mentions a by now very tired joke of a cafeteria waiter who upon being asked for a coffee without cream is forced to tell his patron that he can only offer him coffee without milk. Without getting into the Hegelo-Lacanianism which the…
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Nostalgia
I was searching for music to listen to while I wrote and I came across this: https://youtu.be/3qoBqdkNeXo It’s called “Sovietwave.” As soon as I tapped on the thumbnail (this was on my smartphone) of a purple-hazy photo of the Russian White House (after being shelled in 1991), I was captivated by the aesthetic oddity of…
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UFOthers
I wanted to go back to this blog (after years of not writing anything on it!) to write about something that caught my attention in a Netflix docuseries called Unsolved Mysteries. As of July 5, 2020, it is the #1 most popular show on Netflix in the US. It’s a crime documentary series which details…
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Elision
I woke to a stone Irish cross each morning. It stood stark against silver skies, and because it was on the higher bank of the Lee from my perspective against the coursing clouds, it seemed to mark the passage of time like the hand of a grand Celtic clock. Over time, brief seconds of contemplation…
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