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I wrote an essay about rocks, stones, and statues. It goes from Pliny to Anne Carson & from Cyprus to Japan to Notre Dame.
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anna
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anna
@moonbeeaam
I plan to live forever in a skylit room surrounded by my friends
Joined May 2018
- i schedule my emails to send at 9:17 or 8:34 or whatever so it seems more authentic. everyone knows what's up with a 9:00 email
- why did feminism get replaced with whatever this “girlhood” thing is
- he’s there for the tote bagJames Joyce with Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Co, Paris, 1920
- when i started uni i had an existential crisis bc i wanted to read everything. i tried biology, anthropology books etc & not just philosophy, but didn’t get far. i had a meeting w my tutor where i said i wanted to be like berger or sontag & he told me about plath’s fig tree story
- i’m an unapologetic double, triple, quadruple-texter. i am a scrapbook texter: i will send unrelated messages at any time during the day of thoughts and pictures, anything i found interesting
- it’s interesting that memes are no longer jokes. they’re just ways of signalling various cultural allegiances
- just people living in the moment … not a single research proposal or grant application in sight
- my dream is to write so consciously and deliberately that my essays imperceptibly become poetry
- 1. it’s a shame that when we grow up we often lose or dismiss our ability to talk about art so casually and curiously like this 2. it’s interesting how comfortable these children are with the idea of ambiguous genderJohn Berger discussing Caravaggio with some school kids [from 'Ways of Seeing', 1972]
00:00 - it unfortunately seems to be a common sentiment today, whether presented in terms of race or gender or some interpretation of “intersectionality”, that fundamentally we just can’t understand one another
- i saw the lighthouse which inspired virginia woolf’s “to the lighthouse”
- Walter Benjamin died by suicide 84 years ago today while trying to escape fascism. I think this quotation exemplifies his most important idea: that we must direct our future towards a redemption of the past, and that revolution is the means to that redemption.
