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Miriam

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Extraordinary chart of antitheses depicting the “Dualism of Experience in This World” composed by W.H. Auden for a seminar he was teaching at Swarthmore.

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Moving out of one of the most beautiful apartments in Philadelphia today and feeling incredibly sad about it. Steinbeck must have been wrong about Americans overrating roots as a psychic need.

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I am fully at peace with God’s will only during those golden five minutes right after drinking morning coffee

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philosophizing.. (unemployed)

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Un court extrait où Ernst Jünger parle de ce qu'il a lu pendant la guerre - notamment Gide, Huysmans et "Léon Bloy, beaucoup de Léon Bloy" ( !) - et répond à la question de savoir comment on peut être un esthète en temps de guerre.

Europe of Cultures - Ernst Jünger - Ina.fr

Ernst Jünger, 86 years old, answers Bernard Pivot's questions regarding his Journal Parisien which he ran during the Occupation while working in Paris. Bernard Pivot asks him about being and appear...

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@dramaticirony Interesting advice from a guy whose life revolves around dating twenty year olds, smoking weed, and churning out a single piece a week

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every man has one ratty backpack they have been using for over a decade and refuse to throw away

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1 year ago today

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@providenceluvr My take is if you’re that beautiful (which you are) and they still can’t overcome their discomfort and disdain, then they are just homosexual and there’s no saving it.

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Miriam

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Slightly belated post, but I recently finished undergrad and will be attending graduate school at Uchicago divinity school in September. Any advice or counsel is welcome and appreciated, and I would be glad to meet anyone either living there or passing through.

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Rome, that reformed the world, accustomed was/Two suns to have, which one road and the other/ Of God and of the world, made manifest.

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Bizarre how some people think one of our biggest problems wrt writing & argument nowadays is an excess of rhetorical flourishes, and not an epidemic of restrained, sterilized stylists who seem to think that parsimony& recorded facts automatically make one’s writing worth reading

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Bloy and Amis on style as a moral instrument

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@iltimorediddio It is from the introduction to the 2005 reprint of Auden’s ‘The Sea and the Mirror,’ which is a commentary on Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest.’ He writes that it is his attempt at hammering out a theory of Christian art, which is the topic of a paper I’m in the middle of writing

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Rome, that reformed the world, accustomed was/Two suns to have, which one road and the other/ Of God and of the world, made manifest.

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somehow I won the Penn UG history thesis prize for intellectual and cultural history, despite my unhinged Acknowledgements section:

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Was given the gift of a Mussolini-era pottery bowl for my birthday..

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Auden, from ‘The Sea and the Mirror’

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I am once again on the Continent meditating on how the average European waiter is more competent than the average American Romance Languages PhD

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W.H. Auden; “The Frivolous and the Earnest”

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We are not computers, and we will never be. Argument benefits from beauty, it is not diminished by it.

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Latest sunlit mess

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From the Chicago Bellow archive, an interview (not sure of the date; can’t find traces online)— I am writing a long personal essay where I quote this because I find it strangely and uniquely encouraging. We can all make it— no descent into the nihilistic pit!

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Took a skirt to the tailor and the lady gave me a discount because she thought I was sixteen and that it was my high school uniform. I didn’t have the heart to tell her it was the one from that skirt suit set designed by Emily Ratajkowski to subvert propriety in the workplace

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The best female friend I ever made I met in a bar at 11 pm when I was just running in to use the restroom. She complimented me on my hair and introduced me to her buddy sitting next to her who she’d met the previous year in a mental hospital. We had like six tequila pineapples

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Do you ever ruin an artist’s entire discography for yourself by listening to them while you’re at rock bottom

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In honor of Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday falling on the same day, I wanted to share the most beautiful thing I’ve read related to love in the past year. It is from the letters of French writer Léon Bloy to his wife, Jeanne. My rough translation is on the right:

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This year I got accepted into my dream school, rejected by my dream man, and couldn’t afford either of them

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It is hilarious and absurd to me when Germans say “getriggered”— the language has bits of brilliance like “Schadenfreude” and “Verschlimbessern” and you’re settling for this American bastardization? Unmöglich.

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Why are so many literary critics miserable and antagonistic? S. Bellow was right about them being like deaf people who tune pianos.

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@TLiterarian It’s sort of like Dr. Seuss, but for demented adults

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Saul Bellow; 1994

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I am trying to be nicer— for example, “what the f*ck were you thinking?” I am rephrasing as “what role did prescience play in this?”

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Aquinas ‘On Charity’ : “To love that good [in which the blessed participate] for its own sake in order that it might remain and be made wide-spread, and that nothing might act against that good, this does dispose man well toward that society of the blessed.”

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I think almost every conservative public intellectual should be sent to a sort of internment camp where instead of role-playing as Joseph de Maistre or whatever they should be forced to work a minimum wage job & read something other than Dostoevsky or bad translations of Homer

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“The technical is not just the machinery; the technical is a disposition to life.” The internet has severely inhibited our capacity for humility by aggravating our predisposition towards self-deception, and this in turn makes us even more uncharitable and nasty in debate.

mary beard

@wmarybeard

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'is it time for your nap ?' (recent post). I've tried to engage with this pile in. As anyone who's read what I've written knows, I cherish disagreement & debate. Noone knows that they're right. It'd be great & good to debate without the ageism (crone, witch, coffin dodging). Eh?

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Philadelphia

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W.H. Auden: “When someone..says..I know what I like,'he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu', because, between twenty and forty, the surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”

Zena Hitz

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What many academics do not seem to get is that taste is deeply relevant to how we judge the work of others. Are we interested in it? Do we care about it? 1/x

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Going to bring back sumptuary laws and bourgeois reading culture

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Next stop is a shoebox in Chicago for the same price

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God created mental illness so we could have saints

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@_belalugosisdad My problem is not with valid, substantive critiques whatsoever. In fact, I think they should be welcomed. My issue is simply with academics who see women sincerely engaging with philosophy on the internet and immediately assume they are shallow bimbos.

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buonanotte tra il mare e la pioggia la tristezza passerà domattina e l'anello resterà sulla spiaggia

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Baudelaire

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Translating my memoir and realizing it’s better in French 💀

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from Lewis’s “The Four Loves”

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Was on the phone with my mother about my romantic trials earlier, & instead of consoling me she goes: “You ended a relationship with an investment banker, had a dalliance with an ex-alcoholic painter, & are now being courted by a Harvard lawyer—stop complaining and write a book!”

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Miriam

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American universities are so damn uptight.. They have to make up for their dilettantism and lack of effortless genius with endless bureaucracy and neurotic punctuality. The muse doesn’t always sing on command! Sometimes ‘eureka’ is five pints in!

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Can any of these conservatives who moan about Beauty explain what they mean by it? Do they all concur on one definition, do they have any knowledge of aesthetics— or does the term simply evoke some Abstract Thing they believe they possess privileged knowledge of

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The best thing I ever did in college was become best friends with this (now retired) Penn History professor who beat Amy Gutmann for the title of Harvard Valedictorian in ‘69. He sends me a mad text just about every day:

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Le seul avantage d'être une jolie femme est que les hommes font semblant de s'intéresser à votre carrière et à vos talents et parfois les soutiennent (la plupart du temps accidentellement/incidemment)

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Odilon Redon; Calvary (1897)

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famous last words from my professor

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One of worst things about midwit conservatism is the distortion of the virtue of simplicity. You do not have to be stupid to be simple, and yet…

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Being part Indian and part German you really can’t win either way .. :’)

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The extraordinary Saul Bellow on madness in ‘Mr. Sammler’s Planet,’— “Madness is the attempted liberty of people who feel themselves overwhelmed by giant forces of organized control. Seeking the magic of extremes. Madness is a base form of the religious life..”

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Miriam

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@sharghzadeh I don’t think it’s accurate to imply that “white” = observant Christian, especially in NY(C). It would be a more apt observation if you stated that people who were actively practicing their faith were the ones having children. Catholics and Mormons have more than the natl average

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Sonntag

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flirting

EVA

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What is it called when a perfect stranger recognizes your brilliance but people in your everyday life can't see or hear you...

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Miriam

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In memory of Martin Amis, here are excerpts from my favorite essay of his, a piece on Saul Bellow from “The Moronic Inferno”

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@m_s_1964

4 months

This sort of thing is the reason the conservative movement is dying

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Why are the elite college protestors so unattractive? No really, why? Some musings.🧵

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Happy 109th birthday to Saul Bellow

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Do comment so I know I’m not alone. I’ll go first: The Velvet Underground; The Smiths; Pulp

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@TLiterarian Haha I know; this is my —normally fairly modest and refined—boyfriend who sent this message as a joke, I posted it here (also as a joke + with his permission) not thinking anything would happen and here we go 😆 🤷‍♀️

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Mary Beard’s grace and patience in response to insufferable—mostly American—academics using her tweet as a soapbox to masturbate and virtue signal is further proof of her intellectual superiority

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MS, Jongleur

@panthichumanist

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Images of the Sun captured by the Inouye Solar Telescope.

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Purposely not editing blemishes and dark circles out of my LinkedIn profile photo so viewers will be duped into thinking I am A Serious Scholar

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I hate to inform you all that being in the crucible of misery (single) is making me a creative genius

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David Mack

@davidmackau

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2023 almost over. show me your fav photo of you being haunted by the constant drumbeat of existential dread that comes with being alive

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my mom came to visit me and saw my cigarettes; she pretended to be angry for a few minutes and then put two in her pocket

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The idea that these mysterious notions of “taste” and “enthusiasm” have nothing to do with the interpreter’s identification with or (dis)approval of the producer’s class or cultural background is laughable-that is what “Taste” and “enthusiasm” are born of. This elitism is a rot.

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Miriam

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Sincere points made here. Notable philosophers of the past century (see: Jacques Maritain, Edith Stein, etc). also converted after reading novels and about the lives of the saints.

anna kw✨

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Catholics in my mentions acting like the solution to self-destructive nihilism in the culture today is just getting everybody to go to church… you realize that where you see God, others see nothing, right? These people need to be reached too. Only philosophy can bridge the gap

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A good bar is like a good man— it’s got to be exciting, yet predictable. Good conversation. Dim, but not too dim— and always giving you stuff for free

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wunderschön @sinnform

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SB’s Nobel Prize speech from 1976– fitting today and always.

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@jacques_trappe @dramaticirony It is in my book, and it’s certainly not the lifestyle of someone I’d take advice from

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Epigraph to Irving Howe’s “Politics and the Novel” ..

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If university newspapers were honest, they’d have headlines that read like tabloids, ex: “Female Student Realizes Greatest Allies are Aged Professors Nostalgic For When Their Wives Were Thin,” and not nonsense like “Future Venture Capitalist Discusses Passion for Women’s Rights”

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@m_s_1964

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I do this with books I steal from my father

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I love inscribing a used book exactly in the style of its previous author.

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I miss Armie Hammer. He was so good looking

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Miriam

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What no one ever told me about writing a thesis about a fairly tortured, complicated man, was that when you begin to inhabit said fellow in order to describe his situation the peculiar melancholy is very likely to bleed into your own life. A case of ‘method -writing’ maybe

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Giving up yearning for Lent.

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Philadelphia Art Museum yesterday evening. Though I have to say, all of these moved me less than the Rocky statue..

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Miriam

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11 months

It is always perplexing to me how many women lose their faith in college. Mine has never been stronger— is there any greater proof for the existence of God than a profusion of beautiful and clever men at their physical peak?

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Miriam

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Do you ever get to a point where you go to all the Catholic community events they offer? I am going to the Filipino mass and potluck this evening just to feel some human warmth

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Miriam

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Just got to my parents’ home and found my childhood journal. It has unfortunately confirmed to me that I was always absolutely off the wall, and that this isn’t a more recent development, as I was hoping.

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Victor Kumar

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Having children is the most meaningful thing you can do with your life. Intellectuals and creatives can't accept this because it means their vocations aren't supremely meaningful and any fool can have a more worthwhile life. But it's true and all the counterarguments are cope.

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aujourd’hui

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@providenceluvr nightmare + almost everyone doing graduate degrees at elite institutions is already so damn wealthy. are you telling me I have to while away my last few years of good looks & any free time I have working some minimum wage job just to be able to keep up.

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Miriam

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Thinking about how I put off buying AirPods until til five years after they came out because Leon Kass told me when I was sixteen that he believed they heralded the complete dissolution of our civilization

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Some of the pushback against this statement—on the grounds of insufficiency— is asinine. One has 280 characters maximum per tweet to make a few points in defense of the humanities. Do you want her to write a dissertation?

mary beard

@wmarybeard

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If you ask : what is the value of the humanities? I would say that it teaches you to read with acuity, to analyse wild claims, to argue responsibly to questions to which there are no right answers. Do we need the humanities? Let’s hear it for yes!!!

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asking real questions

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Miriam

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Watched four credit cards decline last night (this morning?) at the bar. Feeling very lucky to have a whole Benjamin in my bank account this Sunday. It's a good day when your net worth is 20+ beers. AMDG.

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