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"I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
- Eugene V. Debs

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2024-08-19 16:53:27

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Grice's maxims are specifically derived from a study of *conversation*, and aren't intended to apply to all classes of utterance, fwiw.

2024-08-17 00:00:02

current mood: i am unreasonably angry about something on a web forum, please shoot me

2024-08-16 20:27:43

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oh ffs, what happened now?

2024-08-01 06:44:21

Does anyone know someone who lives near Koc University in Istanbul who would be willing to go take pictures of, like, 5 pages of a book for me? It's an American book but Worldcat lists ZERO copies of this specific edition closer than fucking Turkey.

2024-07-30 05:33:34

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Yeah, this quote from the Wikipedia article is pretty astonishing:
> In a 1968 essay titled "The Territories", Leibowitz postulated a hellish future:
> > The Arabs would be the working people and the Jews the administrators, inspectors, officials, and police—mainly secret police. A state ruling a hostile population of 1.5 to 2 million foreigners would necessarily become a secret-police state, with all that this implies for education, free speech and democratic institutions. The corruption characteristic of every colonial regime would also prevail in the State of Israel. The administration would suppress Arab insurgency on the one hand and acquire Arab Quislings on the other. There is also good reason to fear that the Israel Defense Forces, which has been until now a people's army, would, as a result of being transformed into an army of occupation, degenerate, and its commanders, who will have become military governors, resemble their colleagues in other nations.

2024-07-04 20:26:59

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And once they're dead, you can do whatever you'd like! (Pablo Picasso was a rapist, but nobody has to avoid giving cultural capital to *Guernica* because of it, you know?)

2024-07-04 20:07:49

I also want to remind everyone: It's PERFECTLY OKAY to still love art made by people who turn out to be terrible. It's good not to SUPPORT those people, once you know they've done horrible things, but the WORK ITSELF lives in your heart and you own it as much as anyone else does.
(It's also, of course, totally okay to feel like your relationship to a work has been changed or even ruined by a revelation that someone is terrible! But in my experience, LOTS of people will tell you that. I want to tell you that it's okay if your relationship to the work is NOT ruined.)
There are many books by terrible people that have been deeply, deeply formative for me. It's reasonable and fine to say, "Yes, the author is a shithead, but i refuse to cede the love and meaning this art has created in my life to a shithead."

2024-06-20 19:48:34

I regret to inform everyone that i blew my nose too hard and perforated my eardrum again.
(It's fine, i do this about once a year bc my eardrums are very scarred. Just irritating.)

2024-05-22 03:31:58

Every time i get reminded of Fleetwood Mac's RUMOURS, i end up pulling it up and listening to the whole thing. One of the best fucking albums of all time, seriously.

2024-05-07 01:07:45

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