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and isn't the poem more beautiful for it, for the difficulty, for the way we can't quite make sense of it, settled sense, I mean, for how it won't stay still; isn't the non-sense what makes it bottomless, what lets us pour and pour our attention into it, what makes it not just a message
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I would study the score later, in music school, and really it didn't help me understand what I had felt when I first heard it. How can I say what it did to me, it unmade me, unmade and remade me around itself somehow.
— Nov 02, 2026 01:11PM
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that weird intellectual weather we had taken to calling the Discourse, the amorphous impersonal sense of things that came from scrolling through social media, from watching fifteen-second video clips on YouTube. It was like we had outsourced consciousness, turned inwardness inside out, we thought now in other peoples' memes. It made me despair for my country, not just my country, for the endeavor of humanness
— Nov 02, 2026 12:39PM