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This is the big one! My essay on art, poetic knowledge, and the scientific image of mind, language, and nature:
Peli Grietzer
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Peli Grietzer
@peligrietzer
Mathematized philosophy of literature
- Took me literally this long to realize he meant 'coverage'8 years ago right now. A simpler time.
- The French dub of Emily in Paris rewrites the whole show so that instead of not knowing French Emily knows French but has a bad accent
- The sitcom Malcolm in the Middle ends with Malcolm's mom telling him that she made his childhood painful on purpose so that when he grows up to become president of the United States his memories of suffering will stop him from betraying the working class
- The greatest trick the devil ever played was taking the yolks out of six hard boiled eggs, mixing them with mustard and paprika, and spooning the mixture back in
- I feel like pillows stopped working
- But also this is unironically why art is possible at all[Me at age thirteen listening to Trent Reznor scream about the violent self-destruction and bottomless despair of heroin addiction] god this is just like going to middle school
- Everything about Severance people think is a reference to scientology is a reference to Amazon's corporate cultureseverance is a bold critique of, uh, scientology
- I am so easily impressed by trees
- Straight up one of the worst humans alive rn
- Am I missing something plausibly controversial from the campus protests or are people literally just mad that there are protests
- You gotta respect Italy inventing all these perfect recipes 70 years ago then lying to everyone that they're hundreds of years old so that nobody fucks with them
- Apparently the term for migraine-sufferer is 'migraneur.' Nice getting recognition as a kind of artisan of suffering
- Replying to @peligrietzerAlso she can't understand when French people talk very fast, so the English parts are dubbed to slow French and the French parts are dubbed to extra-fast French
