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Schiele and the Seagull
On Friday I went with some friends to the first of the Re-Enchantment Readings events in London, which, despite being cut short by a disruption halfway…
Mar 30, 2025
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Exhausting Beauty
Beauty struggles with privacy.
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Here is one hand, and here is another
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Schiele and the Seagull
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Why Anna Karenina had to die
Feb 28, 2024
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Fantastic Reminiscence
Jan 6, 2025
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Idiocy and Irony
Feb 22, 2023
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Fantastic Reminiscence
(A set of digressions on listening to Morton Feldman)
Jan 6, 2025
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Here is one hand, and here is another
Instead of working on my writing, I decided spontaneously to go to the National Gallery. Because it was the middle of a weekday, there was only a short…
Jun 24, 2024
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A Breath of Fresh Air
About Wes Anderson, theatricality, and fate
Jun 4, 2024
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Why Anna Karenina had to die
Character, criticism, idiots and unprofessionals, and moral philosophy
Feb 28, 2024
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Closeness and curation: at a Mark Rothko exhibition
A few days ago I went to see the Mark Rothko exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. I was on my own, so I could go through as slowly as I…
Dec 20, 2023
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Feeling something, being someone
On Ben Lerner's 'Leaving the Atocha Station'
Oct 13, 2023
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On Being Tickled by Insects
Mark but this flea.
Jun 27, 2023
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Echo's Curse: Finding a Voice
When I first started university, I was surprised by how seriously they talked about plagiarism; I remember in the first few weeks there were multiple…
Apr 20, 2023
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Idiocy and Irony
At the end of his first term at Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein supposedly asked Bertrand Russell: ‘am I a complete idiot?’ If he was not a complete…
Feb 22, 2023
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