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Apr 24, 2024
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gracedo taking a quick look at my ebook app library I have so many dog training protocol manuals, a PDF from a government think tank about coercion and control, Nabokov’s lecture on The Metamorphosis, Sontag’s essay Against Interpretation, Cosmic Death Fungus: A Primer to an Ancient Enemy, Bloodlines of Illuminati (LOL), The Female Dating Strategy Handbook, So Fake, So Real: Josephine and the Voice of Death (about Josephine the Mouse Singer by Kafka), and The Amygdala Theory of Autism… just to name a few
Apr 24, 2024
gracedo oh my god imagine if Sascha Baron Cohen was secretly an autism researcher this whole time… DEFINITELY Nabokov’s Metamorphosis lecture I go back to it every few years. I love it because he approaches it from his perspective as a hobbyist entomologist and brilliant artist and rejects the common Freudian or psychoanalytic analysis… “There is no rational answer to ’so what.‘ We can take the story apart, we can find out how the bits fit, how one part of the pattern responds to the other; but you have to have in you some cell, some gene, some germ that will vibrate in answer to sensations that you can neither define, nor dismiss. Beauty plus pity—that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.“ I discussed it very briefly on an upcoming episode of my podcast where I also talk about Tavi Gevinson’s new Taylor Swift zine…
