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a blog by Paul Graham Raven
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09JAN23 / accessions
Moore & O’Neill’s League omnibus: somehow the institution never got around to acquiring this one, nor even reading it? It was mentioned at Eruditorium Press a few weeks back, it was there on the shelf, and the department did what the department does. Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time: because all sorts of people—including the sort of…
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you can never step in the same blog twice
I think I’ve known this for a while, and I dare say it’s been obvious to many others for even longer, but I finally hit on a concise formulation of it, and wanted to get it down for my own benefit as much as for any other reason: The reason it’s hard to (re)start and…
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tools for fools
Chased out of my own home today, like yesterday, but the sound of heavy powertools being applied to the apartment upstairs. 7:30am they started this morning, for fuck’s sake… who’s together by then? You can still taste the toothpaste. Those sorts of sounds always provoke in me a desire to cause harm to people and…
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beware and abjure, now and always, ideologies constructed around settlement
Quoting “for truth”, as we used to say—or, perhaps more truthfully, quoting for the almost adrenal relief of reading someone else say something you’ve been thinking/feeling for ages. Jake Casella Brookins takes an end-of-year turn on the mic at Ancillary Review, and it’s quite the blazer: Amidst much larger (and fatuous) claims about the moral…
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completing a thought
I feel I want to mark the end of the year here, particularly given I have left the blog fallow for a bunch of months, but I feel oddly resistant to doing a traditional end-of-year round-up of any sort. This first manifested as a resistance to doing a year-in-reading post, which I initially suspected was…
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”