the very first semester i taught i had a russian student with a thick accent who was prone to saying outlandish things that would make the other students laugh. i thought he enjoyed this but one day under his breath he said “everyone always laughing at ivan”
sebastian castillo
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the glass eye that stares at me in amazement from the bronze mantel, and will never be appeased
- my father and i found the aquarium underwhelming and depressing. “i hate this experience,” he saystomorrow i am going to the aquarium with my father to investigate the mystery and wonder of marine life
- what's great about kafka is that this basically happens in the story—the first thought gregor has, after discovering he's become a bug, isn't "oh no i'm a bug now," but "can i take a later train and still make it to work on time?"
- beating a dead horse but maybe one of the most pathetic men in history, painful to even think about his existence
- didn’t even know there was an election going on. as a registered voter in the state of pennsylvania, i wish someone could text me 12-15 times a day in an increasingly desperate tone about this upcoming event, which i had forgotten about
- they make an appalling $40k a year, which means that a 24% bump would get them a little shy of $50k, which is still underpaid for the labor sanitation workers doThe trash men wanting a 24% raise for a job they don’t need clearances, certifications or a degree for is crazy🫣everybody else I understand but come on now
- being an american writer 60-70 years ago must have ruled. esquire pays you for five months to explore a small town somewhere and write an article about it. a year later you write a book about how you were depressed the whole time. incredible
- for anyone keeping tabs on me ever since likes went private i’ve been liking stuff like this 15-20 times a day
- if you say this to your students they need to put you in the cube
- something i’ve always found surprising when i’ve read letters written by average people from only 150-200 years ago is how mellifluous and deep their prose often sounds. i’m not talking about writers, but random people with grade-school educations
- very funny that joe rogan was elvishly beautiful as a young man. now he is merely a coal briquette spiritually, to say nothing of his aspectJoe Rogan doing stand-up comedy in the early 90s.
00:00 - it’s catholic canon that in the garden of gethsemane jesus christ saw every sin committed by human beings which means that he watched a guy blasting rope to waluigi hentai and still decided to sacrifice himself for humanity. absolute legend














