Look, Middlemarch is a great novel. It complexly mediates class conflict, the commodification of all life, emerging ideological structures in Victorian capitalism. I just personally think it’s more impressive when a novel does that through a story about a guy who hates a weird fish.
Nate Wolff
okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go
I hate this slop aesthetic every restaurant around me is using now. I hate the little jazz spurts coming from words like
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Somehow I missed the charming detail that Lyndsey Fifield falsely claimed to have insider info that the Tufts student who was abducted and imprisoned solely for writing an op-ed in the student newspaper (as revealed in state dept’s own memos!) was a terrorist.
Shows how different the view is on here vs Maine. classic Chotiner mark is so deep in a bubble they've never been pushed. Platner's a gun-owning, pro immigrant & trans rights, anti-ICE, marine vet, dem soc doing nonstop town halls in a weird state. Fine to hate him ofc but he can answer a question.
Canvas is down, ye say? Aye lad hearken to me and I'll tell thee of a time when a man might say canvas was down! When the leviathan booms his bulk upon ye an' thy splintered masts surrender their sails to the foaming, merciless drink!! then, lad, ye say might say with some authority that can (1/135)
