18 April, 1939 Letters To Véra By Vladimir Nabokov

alex consani 2025 met gala

what do you mean, my comments are not cruel, they are honest

writer's block struck. i can't-

gonna take my mind of writing by actually writing an actual original series i've been reviewing with @sincerelycrescent (your comments are cruel but appreciated) (hey i've been coming to the conclusion that i am too kind) so...might make it an original series on here-

and then i may or may not have found out that i have a thing for age gaps don't look at me like that why are you looking at me like that no

i could still write today but then i started losing my motivation for like everything and i'm just like -_- i don't wanna do anything

can’t i just give up

in my mind francis is fashion obsessed

sometimes a teenage girl is franz kafka

Clearly written by a mathematics prodigy. Reads like a series of lemmas on the question of 21st century quality of life. It's easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out. He was a violent individual - rightfully imprisoned - who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary. A take I found online that I think is interesting: "Had the balls to recognize that peaceful protest has gotten us absolutely nowhere and at the end of the day, he's probably right. Oil barons haven't listened to any environmentalists, but they feared him. When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism, it's war and revolution. Fossil fuel companies actively suppress anything that stands in their way and within a generation or two, it will begin costing human lives by greater and greater magnitudes until the earth is just a flaming ball orbiting third from the sun. Peaceful protest is outright ignored, economic protest isn't possible in the current system, so how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is justified as self-defense. These companies don't care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids. They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive? We're animals just like everything else on this planet, except we've forgotten the law of the jungle and bend over for our overlords when any other animal would recognize the threat and fight to the death for their survival. 'Violence never solved anything' is a statement uttered by cowards and predators."

A review from Luigi Mangione's Goodreads account, published Jan 31, 2024

what the fuck

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"To forget, to forget ...", Vahan Teryan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

operating entirely on caffeine and spite

move over brat summer it's time for richard papen winter