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he’s not a dork I’m sorry I said that

I agree that the domesticating/foreignizing/exoticizing trichotomy is moralizing, but you cant argue that language is not intrinsically tied to culture. Arguing against SapirWhorf isn’t sufficient to prove that language and culture are in some way distinct. Give me a single example of a cultural form that is not bound up in language! All engagement between people is filtered through language. Fuckin dork.

I wanna move to nyc soooooooo bad it’s so cool it’s so cool it’s so cool it’s so cool

the spirit of Jacques Lacan is alive and well in, early Tamil Christian mysticism?

Look I love the word ‘avuncular’ as much as the next guy but it’s used too much. You’re allowed one avuncular every 500 pages. Come on man

So far this is just old European men reading Cicero and studying medicine

My coworker Reagan showed me some Star Wars fan fiction a few weeks ago that had better dialogue than this.

“‘And he’d be right,’ I said under my breath. ‘And he’d be right’”

I don’t want this book to end I am going slow to make it last

I guess I’ve been a closet physicalist my whole life, but most of this stuff is obvious. The bit about topographic neural maps is pretty cool tho, it’s cool that the bits that respond to the left arm are to the left of the bits that respond to the right arm

it feels pretty intellectually lazy and dishonest to say that Israel “bought land from Arabs”

I feel like it is a bit disingenuous and reductive to say that Africa is trapped in poverty because the rivers have waterfalls and are thus unnavigable. Totally has nothing to do with violent resource extraction or the slave trade.

I’m very happy that this book is short

ugh

Woooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo gimme all the SuperSalamander info I wanna know everything about em give me all that you’ve got

Holy shit

This book is so good I don’t know why it has taken me so long

im gonna take a break from this and read some Dr Seuss books. This book is too fucked up

Re: my last update, why do they all talk about pedophilia too??? Why is this a common topic?

What is with Latin American authors and writing scenes of very brutal violence towards women? Cortázar, Donoso, Bolaño, they’re all creeps. The book is fucking awesome so far tho

This book started out so good but now is so repetitive. Oh my god move on we’ve been talking about this for 4 chapters I get your point

Re-reading for the bajillionth time. I’m always shocked that a human was able to create this.
“It is my soul that calls upon my name.
How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears!” Are you kidding me how did someone write that? I love Billy Shakespeare so, so, so much

The linguistic ambiguity in the cease fire is fascinating. Free Palestine