“This extract from ‘Under Milk Wood’ by Dylan Thomas was created by members of the Company spanning the 45 years of its history.” → ► wgytc 1975-lockdown ※ More about it: ‘Lulled and dumbfound’: lockdown version of Under Milk Wood released Thanks, Reader B.!
steamed hams but it’s take on me
Withheld: July 12, 2020
In the zeitgeist, but not here → The Harpers letter whingeing about cancel culture (because it doesn’t exist) ☡ The NYT and others now capitalizing Black when describing people (because duh…and the more interesting question is, should we capitalize White?) ☡ Coronavirus (because who needs more?) ☡ Trump’s Mask (because which one?) ☡ Kanye (because come on) ☡ TiKTok.
Responses: July 12, 2020
- Reader B.: “Here is a link to a web page of poems that I have written around George Floyd’s murder, and the personal examination that the movement across this country has inspired in all white people.
- Reader A.: “I wish I had something clever or witty to say about this serving of katexic, but just want to say how nourishing it is for my brain to wander through the links (spent longest time learning more and looking at the work of Milton Glaser, but also humbled how little I new of Arthur Ashe beyond my tv memories of seeing him win with class against that arrogant Jimmy Connors).”
- Reader J.: “I’m glad you’re back l with your signature style of #flamflacockadoodle and feisty reality.” — I need to create something named #flamflacockadoodle!
- A different Reader J.: “The idea that ‘Reality’ is constructed by your brain is false because it is a gross oversimplification. See this series of conversations about consciousness between novelist, essayist, and translatorTim Parks and philosopher, psychologist, and robotics engineer Riccardo Manzotti.”
Newsletter! July 12, 2020
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from Eating the Dinosaur (Chuck Klosterman)
But the deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naïve. How do we know how we feel? I’m likely much closer to Žižek’s aforementioned description of Titanic: There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.
—Chuck Klosterman
—found in Eating the Dinosaur (2009
hokum
hokum · /HOH-kəm/ · /ˈhəʊkəm/. noun. Nonsense. Rubbish. Originally theater slang for bombastic, melodramatic, sentimental or sensationalized dialogue done for applause. Most likely a combination of hocus-pocus + buncombe (AKA bunkum). See also: claptrap, piffle, poppycock, cobblers, tripe, twaddle, etc.
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