Emanuel Derman

Shakespeare's Sonnets - Sonnet 145 | Folger Shakespeare Library Few collections of poems—indeed, few literary works in general—intrigue, challenge, tantalize, and reward as do Shakespeare's Sonnets. Almost all of them love poems, the Sonnets philosophize, celebrat...

Sonnet 145 - never saw it before

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Tough one.

At MOMA, Jack Whitten’s exhibition. Here are his notes to himself in 1972 about what to avoid in making his abstract art.

It made me go back and listen to “Dixie flyer“ in “land of dreams“ from 1988, which I really liked. Not sarcastic, just very touching.

I recall that. It’s fantastic

I like that line you quoted, it struck me too

What about Kempton?

He died in 2007

David Denby · Colony, Aviary and Zoo: New York Intellectuals The house style of the early Partisan Review was hard-headed, truculent, dismissive of religiosity (‘mystification...

Terrifically perceptive article by David Denby about the NY intellectuals of the 30s 40s 50s 60s from Howe Trilling Mccarthy Sontag … www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“America likes to think Every one can recover from every thing, But about this, Especially, America is wrong.” - Liam Rector

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"Death to America" This is the True Meaning of "MAGA"

On Banishment by @lionel_trolling open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde--Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde-Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop [Hoberman, J] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde-Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop

Looking forward to getting this
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Thanks!

You must be reading me wrong or I am expressing myself wrong. I have no distaste for the English at all.. Quite the reverse.

Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian

Native-born Americans! See what it’s like to grow up in an immigrant family:

“Brief Hours and Weeks awakes many memories of Cape Town, as it was half a century ago. The chapter on the lonely Mrs Gold is a triumph." - J M Coetzee, Nobel Laureate

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The unconscious has neither a clock or a calendar

Never heard about that, will check it out thanks.
I agree, those things are gross

The Barefoot Edition On proprioception and running.

On barefoot running and proprioception

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South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h...

"While missiles were flying in the Middle East and Minnesota police were searching for an armed political assassin, the US president celebrated his 79th birthday by saluting a bunch of military vehicles and thousands of servicemen and women dressed in historical costumes." -- swampnotes

Alphabet Soup | Etgar Keret | Substack Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering. Click to read Alphabet Soup, by Etgar Keret, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Alphabet Soup
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Unless you were just trying to sound very macho with a bit of wrong grammar

WHOM I have a crush on.
Hope she didn’t read this or you’re definitely finished

Rand Paul: "I've never liked the idea of the parade. I grew up in the '70s and '80s, and the only parades I can remember are Soviet parades for the most part or North Korean parades. The parades I remember from our history were different...we never glorified weapons so much...then there is the cost"

YouTube video by Clown Jewels Here he comes to the save the day 🐭 #andykaufman #mightymouse #comedy

Andy Kaufman acting the mighty mouse theme song

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Die, (Russian) imperialist dogs.

What matters isn't whether something is conscious or not, but whether you hold it responsible in some way for its actions.

What fascinated me about English was what I later recognized as its hybrid etymology: blunt Anglo-Saxon concreteness, sleek Norman French urbanity, and polysyllabic Greco-Roman abstraction.
—- Camille Paglia in the introduction to Break Blow Burn

Summer book edition, part 2 I decided to go through my shelves to highlight new and older books that are related to the things I write about. Have a great summer! Here's Part 2.

Free for all today with mentions of new books by @roxanegay.bsky.social @hildur.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @emanuelderman.bsky.social @swordsjew.bsky.social and more! open.substack.com/pub/thedig/p...

department of what now? voices from the beehive, part 4

"almost always, the cost of doing something is so much less important than the thing that’s getting done"
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