Solidarity with Virginia Woolf and her summer writing goals

Feeling this big time

has to be one of the most beautiful pictures I've clicked in bangalore

Reading Henry James, I'm struck by how often characters pause for "a minute" during conversations - as though the normal pace of conversation were much slower and more relaxed than now.

I have this idea for a performance of King Lear. The actor who plays Lear delivers all his lines in exactly the same tones in which Norm MacDonald delivers his Moth Joke. youtube.com/watch?v=1-MJy7…

Anne Carson

Austin Dobson, 1880.

Gecko

“Alleged” Christ. Find a single report where the BBC has called a Russian air strike on Ukraine “alleged”. Good luck. The way we report on Israeli government decisions is one of the stranger things I’ve seen in my life. It’s just strange.

Masculine Wave, by Katsushika Hokusai, early 19th century

From Ted Chiang's recent New Yorker essay about AI. I totally agree with this:

Tomorrow's the last day. Apply!

"AI isn’t a tool – it’s an agent. The biggest threat of AI is that we are summoning to Earth countless new powerful agents that are potentially more intelligent and imaginative than us, and that we don’t fully understand or control." —Thoroughly engrossing read: Excerpt from

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During the one and only meeting of Marcel Proust and James Joyce, both men spent the entire time complaining about their ailments

Introduction: I conclusively show Body: I tentatively explore Conclusion : I apologise

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audrey hepburn in ‘breakfast at tiffany’s’ (1961)

the internet itself had the potential, both as what it does and what it stood for as an entity, to be *about* information and history. the internet archive was proof that the internet could *be* an archive. but now, by law, it mustn't be. it is literally obligated to be worse.