alex angelosanto

“many a mystery holds sway in an apparently so obvious world and that strange silent powers are at work behind the world's loud chatter.”

Thomas Mann. Joseph in Egypt. 1933.

got an ad on YouTube that goes like: "many think it's off-putting to have a gun on your desk at work, so get this cool new case you can put your gun in and keep 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 on your desk!"

"...we’re allowing the sort of behavior that hollows out what it means to be a member of a political community.

Caesar broke the laws of Rome in Gaul well before he ever marched on the city itself. What would make you think we’re immune?"

I had the first cup of coffee in my life at 4:00 AM in Union Square. I was 21 years old and working on a terrible Nickelodeon show. I was mercifully a few blocks away from set, on firewatch duty with our gear at the Seafarers International House, chatting with hopeful extras until sunrise

Learned a new word from DH Lawrence

𝘗𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳: a course of action followed as a last resort

LLMs are a challenge to be more human

Fan Ho 何藩 (1931-2016)

wow these are amazing! I think the World Game could be really great! I guess Geography is the cool thing this year. thank you!

They'll be 10 in a few months

when did every toy suggestion become lego? I'm straight up searching for geography games and the first thing on google is a lego map. My nieces don't like that shit, move on!

This would be perfect if it was the first two extended cuts and the Return of the King theatrical cut 💅

This one HACK will get you out of any federal prison

get ready to learn to read, buddy

Henri Rousseau’s “Les Pêcheurs à la ligne” is the world’s first painting of an airplane

In my unemployment I will prove that Moses and Lycurgus are actually the same person

I think Olivia Nuzzi is actually referencing Ariosto, not Dante

Okay in the very next essay he’s going on an extended aside about how it makes no sense to love a baby because we don’t know their personality lol.

He’s throwing shit out there, not all of them are going to get on the board and that’s okay!

Montaigne says when it comes to honorary awards “the men who have least deserved this reward make the most show of disdaining it… to place themselves in the rank of those who have been wronged by the unworthy spread and debasement of this distinction”

which is so true!

Louis Anquetin (1861-1932)

Can the UK get a fucking grip already?

Child soldier recruited by an empire to fight a forever war in the provinces comes to the imperial core and kills two troops sent there to occupy a domestic city like a foreign imperial force.

The repressed isn’t staying repressed! It’s- returning??

Archeologist Manuel Esteve after discovering a Proto-Corinthian helmet in Jerez, Spain. 1938.

Reddit controlled government. In two weeks he’ll drop “die hard is a Christmas movie” in a speech

Freud makes the novel observation that many creatures on earth may have all ready evolved past the need for civilization, leaving humans in the dust

Sigmund Freud. Civilization and Its Discontents. 1930.

When getting gifts for loved ones this Christmas, remember that signed first editions of Richard Nixon's books are surprisingly affordable. And you'll learn something too!

Now that HBO’s made their Welcome to Derry series, how about a Remembrance of Lost Time prequel series about the Baron de Charlus and Charles Swann being boys together in school?

The nation has grown weary of the right wing chattering class droning on about race war and abolishing friendsgiving or whatever the fuck

That scroll word bubble is really beautiful

You can tell when thinking of the spirit of the Middle Ages that there was a lack of cumin.