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no matter how tired i get of all the ads, random men sharing their random opinions, the constant stream of garbage, the depressing breakdown of communication, and the fact that i often don’t know or care what’s going on, i’ll never stop reading ulysses

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James Schuyler on reading Shakespeare, in a 1956 letter to the painter Fairfield Porter

Preordered! Threw in a few bonus items to get me through until November

First page test

A visit to the bookstore (Selections inspired by Rachel Cohen’s A Chance Encounter, which I just finished)

Thought I may have watched the movie of the year, then thought I for sure watched the movie of the year, and now I don’t know what to think.

Elizabeth Bishop going off on Salinger in a letter to Pearl Kazin in 1959… “How can they let him do it?”

This is the speech that @Ruwa4Georgia and the Uncommitted National Movement 🌺 wants to give at the DNC. (Source: motherjones.com/politics/2024/…)

two favorite poems on dailiness, schuyler and berrigan—

Hammershoi

Schuyler's elegy for O'Hara, and one of the most beautiful poems I know: "new needles / on the spruce, new seaweed / on the low-tide rocks / other grass and other water / even the great gold lichen / on a granite boulder / even the boulder quite / literally is not the same"

John Ashbery

strong contender for best song of all time open.spotify.com/track/1XfGLgLH…

“Solitary music teachers, themselves bred on toil, leading the young by way of pain and discipline to their own honorable impasse, teaching in that way the scales of disappointment.” -Elizabeth Hardwick, SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

Jalen Hurts wouldn't allow himself to climb Philadelphia's famous "Rocky steps" until he won the Super Bowl. This was a powerful motivator, as he was dying to see Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even at the world-class Philadelphia Museum of Art.