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5/26 The artist as exemplary sufferer
how do you even write like this??? it's so lovely to read yet so dense with meaning and intention and she goes on many tangents yet it feels like it's all on topic. christianity views suffering as seriousness whereas classical culture viewed seriousness as the avoidance of suffering and pursuit of happiness,, what does that do to a culture????????? incredible
— Apr 12, 2026 05:37PM
how do you even write like this??? it's so lovely to read yet so dense with meaning and intention and she goes on many tangents yet it feels like it's all on topic. christianity views suffering as seriousness whereas classical culture viewed seriousness as the avoidance of suffering and pursuit of happiness,, what does that do to a culture????????? incredible
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Roemer Declercq
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4/26 Sartre's Saint Genet
omg this lady makes me want to read EVERYTHING i'm about to embark on a whole new journey of nerddom and hopefully my writing is also gonna be influenced (more inspired)..... can't stop thinking about (paraphrasing) 'it is the job of critics to show for an artwork how it is what it is is and even show that it is what it is, not to show what it means.' GRAAAAAAA
— Apr 12, 2026 12:04PM
omg this lady makes me want to read EVERYTHING i'm about to embark on a whole new journey of nerddom and hopefully my writing is also gonna be influenced (more inspired)..... can't stop thinking about (paraphrasing) 'it is the job of critics to show for an artwork how it is what it is is and even show that it is what it is, not to show what it means.' GRAAAAAAA
Roemer Declercq
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"The young Camus writes as a French Nietzsche, melancholy where Nietzsche is savage, stoical where Nietzsche is outraged, impersonal and objective in tone where Nietzsche is personal and subjective to the point of mania."
"Typically, writers' notebooks are crammed with statements about the will: the will to write, the will to love, ... the will to go on living. The journal is where a writer is heroic to himself."
— Apr 12, 2026 09:33AM
"Typically, writers' notebooks are crammed with statements about the will: the will to write, the will to love, ... the will to go on living. The journal is where a writer is heroic to himself."
Roemer Declercq
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2/26 against interpretation
OH MY GOD oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god this is so good
finally!!!
— Apr 12, 2026 06:03AM
OH MY GOD oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god this is so good
finally!!!
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1/26 -- Simone Weil
really interesting, especially because i'm reading weil right now. what makes us interested in these 'character' writers? who are not only known for their views, but also (and maybe more so)for their radical personalities, habits or lives; i think sontag has a point about insanity creating some sanity + truth in the reader. i also think that i like to read such things to /absorb\ some part of it
— Apr 11, 2026 11:49AM
really interesting, especially because i'm reading weil right now. what makes us interested in these 'character' writers? who are not only known for their views, but also (and maybe more so)for their radical personalities, habits or lives; i think sontag has a point about insanity creating some sanity + truth in the reader. i also think that i like to read such things to /absorb\ some part of it
