Mom just referred to a couple visiting the bear exhibit at the zoo as “not here for the right reasons”

Blame it on the ruler 💀

Do math every day, even if it's something very simple 😎

leibnizianism is not a philosophical system it is a personal relationship with the supreme monad

I’ve been reading Charlotte Mandell’s translation of Proust and everyone who follows me knows I’m a Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright lifer but it’s so very good, renders the oceanic drift of accumulating words so beautifully. it’s the real deal.

Nothing Ever Happens is a much more complete theory than one may imagine. In the short-term, Things can appear to Happen, economic indicators can flash red, atrocities may be committed, but all of these things ultimately fade into Nothing Happening. Nothing is a trendline.

Nawe Elon leave me alone I'm not paying for your things.

Everyone needs to let go of their cognitive behavioral therapist & get a psychoanalyst. Imagine a therapist who instead of affirming your delusions at all times either says nothing or asks you a question so revelatory and upsetting you're forced to either change or kill yourself

Apropos of everything.

Stop getting your book suggestions from TikTok and try Lithub, The New Yorker or The Times and you'll never have this problem again.

For the longest time I read “californication” not as “California + fornication” but as “the process of becoming California”

Her name is Annie Ernaux and she won a Nobel Prize in 2022, but by all means continue doing the stereotypical misogyny about life writing that we’ve all seen a million times before.

(gesturing vaguely) this is emblematic of a lot of the stuff i've been talking about

where do the emdashes even come from. what corpus has that many emdashes

whoa (me, finally reading a book i cited 4 years ago)

“yes socrates” “certainly socrates”

"The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped away all superstition about the past." - Karl Marx

Casually posting omens online that Roman historians would’ve written about right before an invasion by Gauls.

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