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Elysium

A moment's respite

Oranjese lit

What is beauty

This was all our last generation managed

The logic of the system is totalizing

The most working class way to go

K - "Looks like one of the locals..."

YOU - "We know who this is. It's the working class woman's missing husband -- dead on the boardwalk."

K - "The woman you met at the bookstand?... why do you think it's her husband?"

YOU - "[Because] this is the most working class way to go -- completely alienated and forgotten."

Mass murderer

"You can live *entirely* outside of that suspicion. Billions of people go about not being guilty of mass murder." He nods up. "Just not her."

The greatest innocence

Shipwrecked

"I was born healthy in the arms of a dying civilisation, and throughout my existence, I have had the feeling of surviving ... while so many things around me were falling apart; like characters in a film who are crossing streets where all the walls are crumbling, and who come out somehow unscathed, shaking the dust off their clothes, while behind them the entire city is no more than a pile of rubble."

Covid-19 in America

humming

The heart asks pleasure first

"A moth flaps its wings. There is a cold breeze."

Quality of the 'Economist'

‘Cosmo’ for Capitalists

"It was always a dull stupid paper even when it was honest. But to read sophistical arguments in no better style than Wilson’s is a task I would not condemn a dog to."

Another age of ignorance

Facts don't matter. Lies don't matter. Deaths don't matter. Lives don't matter.

Footsteps of the sun

Revolution? How novel.

The LRB at 40

Origins of the LRB: 0:00
Editing:  21:10
Form of the essay: 37:11
Escalators: 40:21
Proportion of female writers: 1:18:38

1:22:57
"I've observed it recently and I've observed it and I am observing it now myself I guess that the book reviews in the paper... very often don't address the books a great deal..."

Hic sunt dracones