david

Hawthorne on real estate and thus American colonization:

"What we call real estate the solid ground to build a house on-is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests... He lays his own dead corpse beneath the underpinning"

watched McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Wages of Fear back-to-back, accidentally a double feature on life in the hinterlands of the American extractive empire and the violent social forms that arise to govern these outposts

just finished and now burning with the zealotry of the new convert

bookhaven in Philly

words from the final volume of Proust (trans mayor, kilmartin, enright)

lpeproject.org/blog/the-pol...

astounding, endlessly generative manifold map of Time (psychological, historical, social), journeyed by a fractal mechanism that constantly displaces the reader within the novel's pyschogeography at the level of the sentences, which strain, beautifully, toward a universal gestalt

looking to switch up my career, please let me know about any open positions for expatriate writer in the south of france during the 1950s. thanks!

astounding, endlessly generative manifold map of Time (psychological, historical, social), journeyed by a fractal mechanism that constantly displaces the reader within the novel's pyschogeography at the level of the sentences, which strain, beautifully, toward a universal gestalt

i think the new dem strategy should be elitism but for real, I don't believe true elitism has been tried they should be out here saying only people who speak 5 languages can vote. stuff like that.

we need to lower morale

storygraph is a totally infantilizing website that is now pivoting to AI...

"Flaws of characters a main focus?" good lord

Certain movements in the music corresponded to waves and pulses across the surface of the orchestra. Sliding my eyeglasses to the edge of my nose, looking out above the lenses, further abstracted the players into black-suited orbs, interrupted, like gems inset into a velvety surface, by gleaming reflections of polished wood and burnished metal, and by dramatic, chalky white bowslashes writing yet another language in the air. At times, the music seemed to slide from one end of the orchestra to another, propagating with a susurrating ripple, as if the musicians were scales on the back of a snake sinuously slithering along the garden floor.

wrote about my first trip to the symphony

daveposts.substack.com/p/my-first-t...

understanding the allure of the commune as a kind of managed retreat more and more these days

some recent photos

hey paul

some recent photos

acorns cracking like bombs on the roof of the outdoor dining hut provide an immersive element to proust's descriptions of Paris under aerial threat during ww1

understanding the allure of the commune as a kind of managed retreat more and more these days

welcome

silver lining that potentially the continuing tech realignment creates a dem coalition that goes after crypto, online gambling, AI chatbots, algo feeds?

the news from last week is I watched (or rewatched) two of the best American films

not the most important thing here by any means, but the Trumpian aesthetic is just so phenomenally ugly

it's so "funny" that the democrats completed their transition to a party of the college educated in the same moment they stepped aside while the right launched a full-scale attack on higher ed

Mods! MODS!

I lose respect for all "elno" users

and failed to mention that bloggers moving to twitter is mostly why RSS fell in popularity and not google axing reader (IMO).

there was that big hagiographic/oral history type thing about google reader on the verge last week which had some interesting bits about how reader came to be, why google killed it etc but the entire article was framed around how Reader was the only RSS client...

I mean, granted of course. But don't forget the peloton !

what movie?