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Nate Wolff
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Nate Wolff
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Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology 🐳
- I think it would be a nice gesture if Harris would let us know which tweets specifically convinced her.
- I learn so much from novels. Types of knots, types of boats, types of whales, parts of whales, methods for processing whales, what can be made from whale, shape of whale, what the whale did, the whale's likely motivation, color of said whale, metaphysical ramifications of said coI don’t know what people learn from novels & poems that isn’t more rigorously exposited and defended in philosophy texts
- This was someone’s job when romance languages were invented.novels are girls, poems are girls, essays are girls. short stories are boys but linked story collections are girls. memoirs are girls. opinion pieces are boys, reviews are girls. nature writing is a girl
- ❌ I’m in a slough of despond ✅ I’m in a freshwater marsh of sadness
- As a scholar of Herman Melville I strongly believe our next VP should be someone with an animal nemesis.For the past few years I’ve not seen a turkey while hunting. Today they mock me.
- The movie trope of hitmen wearing finely-tailored suits always seemed a little odd, but now I’ve seen a real live assassin and well
- Ok this is pretty cool. I just found out I'm the only guy for whom reading is not performative but rather an authentic expression of an appealingly inclusive and non-reactionary cosmopolitan masculinity.
- Look I love Biden. Biden's a good guy. Long record of stupid obvious lies. Has always been quite racist. just me or is it creepy the way he talks about Obama. Very inconsistent on abortion. bad on immigration. Supported genocide in Gaza, boosted false narratives to silence dissen
- A weird genre is when the NYT runs stories that are like "challenging the false narrative we ourselves constantly peddle"
