James Knight Burroughs never thought of using a cat.

A remixed visual poem

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Eliot complained that Milton’s work was a “solemn game.” I’d make the same criticism of a lot of contemporary poetry.

There can be no better illustration of the psychology of these people.

They don't see Palestinians as humans.

They wipe Gaza off the face of the earth, exterminate tens of thousands, many of them kids, and then they speak like this.

This is the mentality of genocide.

Liz Truss The Spectator CPAC Matt Schlapp ّ Donald J. Trump

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Labour now describes the situation in Gaza, correctly, as apocalyptic, without holding Israel to account for war crimes, or demanding even an end to arms sales.

Just hot air designed to deceive.

A depiction of Sigmund Freud in Tudor dress.

'One always writes with a view to being read. This word I am writing is intended for a gaze, even if it is my own. The very act of writing implies an audience ...'

— Michel Butor (tr. Mathilde Merouani)

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Liz Truss, a woman as bereft of intellect as she is of vision; believer in the mythical Deep State; unthinking adherent to the principles of free-market fundamentalism; supporter of far-right thugs and nutters. Liz Truss

The Critic and Their Readers — Michel Butor (tr. Mathilde Merouani)

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The intense drama of consumerism

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Arshile Gorky

Salman Rushdie is right. It’s got to the stage where I’m terrified to engage in friendly Socratic discussion, for fear of being wilfully misunderstood or denounced as a heretic.