Something something spectacle, something something capitalist realism etc etc. you know the lines, we all do. This shit is our Homeric verses, passed down through history by the dumbest people alive.
"wanting to go die in Peking and not being able to is something that weighs on me like the idea of some imminent cataclysm" when Pessoa gets it, he gets it
That really is how it feels. He hit the nail on the head.
If I ever did a Colonel Chaubert film I'd end it with a post credit scene where he gets invited to join the Thirteen along with Petrov's ghost from Nabokov's Dozen
Fascinating that Balzacs Odyssey riff is so much more tragic. What if Odyessius got back after the wedding is a wonderful twist on it.
Oh workers don't have enough time in the day to read theory? Wow, if only there was a political orientation which has always fought for a reduction of working time to its minimum possible without loss of wage
If this paper I'm reading is even half right then half of the authors in this field are straight up Orientalist racists.
Do any of you have film recommendations for like "an intro to watching older films"?
I'm in charge of part of the programme for my unis film society for the next semester and I may as well use it to throw on classics.
Isak's done miracles on my fpl team, Balzac, Calvino and Brecht in the used book store for cheap, hairdresser has shaped me up nicely. On top of that my social event for tonight is cancelled so I work on my diss instead.
Life can't get better till I grab a tea back at the house.
"Kilpatrick was murdered in a theatre; English police never apprehended the assassin. Historians claim that this failure does not tarnish the good name of the police, since it is possible that the police themselves had Kilpatrick murdered" -Borges
