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I took a class like this in college but it was lowkey more swagged out and gayer than this book could ever be..

Really important London Lore(2) is that I read all two dozen Oz novels by LFrank Baum before even reading the Harry Potter series so it was incredibly formative and I still have dreams about dwarves mining for ore and queen Lurline. The novel is engrossing and very different from the screenplay, the politics/world-extending combo is exciting !!

Most normal person at an HWC

SO excited for this

[Bravely] .. instead of co-opting what the internet has to say about this book and making it my opinion I’m actually going to read it and think critically about it

Loving the chapter about Marosa Di Giorgio following Clarice Lispector following Simone Weil and I feel like women writers being so innately good with the grotesque and having such a handle on what makes things bone-chilling (I have a lot of opinions about her work but a man could never write any Ottessa Moshfegh text) and the interpretation/rewriting of the Eucharist as something horrific but still holy was so good

I thought reading in spanish would make it more interesting but at the end of the day you can be a supremely talented visionary, auteur, director etc. and you’re still a guy writing about his meditation practice. Yawn

Eros es el lugar donde las fuerzas se mezclan y se resuelven en vida. Mística es abstracción. Abstracción es el lenguaje del amor universal.

En la intimidad de su casa y de su cuerpo, la mujer veía. En la inmensidad del cosmos y en la pequeñez de su propia existencia, la mujer intuía; sin embargo, no le estaba permitido interpretar su experiencia, ni convertir sus vivencias en fuente de conocimiento. La labor de comprender fue tarea masculina… la mujer fue mística y el hombre teólogo… la mujer fue un animal sin lenguaje y el hombre, logos.

Gay guys ..

Rick Rubin was touched by God. Look up the songs he produced and you’ll gag. I can’t even list them it would be too much for an update

The horrors.

Feminist urban design!!!! Feminist Urban planning !!

PARTY GIRL (1995) MENTIONED

United health mentioned 🧍

(Tw) Pomona mentioned

Embarrassing that I forgot the connection but when the book started on about how Sackler began to collect artifacts from china my jaw actually dropped when I realized how many times I’ve been to the … Arthur sackler .. gallery… of Asian art . In dc

Every time the author tells us about the new drug being invented during the time he introduces them like it’s love island. A hot new bombshell (benzo) has entered the villa (the American marketplace and ads in medical journals). Her name —- Valium!

Big pharma meet your end (investigative journalist who I’m fond of after reading his book about the troubles)