Brian Patrick Eha

"At night, this narrative, this drive for life, this gaze seeking to redeem the whole of history in its waters." —Christina Tudor-Sideri, "Schism Blue" @dreamsofbeing_ @sublunaryeds https://t.co/BNpRK2kShu

RT @Tyler_A_Harper: It can’t be emphasized enough: wide swaths of the academy have given up re ChatGPT. Colleges have had since 2022 to fig…

Wise words, though it strikes me that this is also why literature, the arts, and other forms of envisioning and in some measure experiencing the unknown, unlived life are vital. We aren't meant for such narrow finitude.

Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy

The great thing is not to say I have succeeded, because no one succeeds. It’s rather to say I have now had sufficient. What has happened to me including my little triumphs and bigger defects is not only acceptable to me now but loved. And, in the last analysis, I in fact can’t

RT @brianeha: I find myself in the odd position of accepting that *most* people, in order to live well, require social norms, firm guidelin…

Young men should be reading Italo Calvino, Ernst Jünger, and Yukio Mishima. They should become regulars at a martial arts school that attracts strong silent types and drunken masters. They should listen to Untrue by Burial. They'll be a little weird at first, but they'll make it.

Alex Perez @Perez_Writes

Young men should be reading Ray Carver, Richard Ford, and Denis Johnson. They should become regulars at a bar that attracts working class dudes and disaffected lawyers. They should listen to Love and Theft by Dylan. They'll be a little cliché at first, but they'll make it.

RT @BretVDB: “All human beings engage in poesis in constituting an imagined world to live in; and the engagement in poesis is coterminous w…

Norman Mailer in "The Fight" devotes a memorable page or two to this exact piece of doggerel. For those who haven't read it, Mailer's book is as good as Ali's failed attempts at poetry are not. https://t.co/xgCRKJZWkh

AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives

Muhammad Ali Recites His Poem 'TRUTH' https://t.co/LkiMVN9t51

RT @olivertraldi: I love this kind of "politics", entirely about cultural symbols, class signifiers, and consumption choices, obsessed with…

Gang, are there no truths in writing?

The Believer @believermag

"There are no truths in writing." —George Saunders, interviewed by Alec Niedenthal https://t.co/58JBjuclNz

That isn't what "reclaiming" means. Butler Library never belonged to these people or their cause in the first place. They aren't "reclaiming" anything; they are illegitimately claiming a space in an antisocial way, to the detriment of students and the wider university community.

ايدن 🔻 @allegedlyaidan

May the student movement for Palestine never end— regardless of repression. All power to the Columbia students for reclaiming butler library in the name of Basel al-Araj. All power to all the students fighting imperialism in genocide.

Clearly, AI already *has* taken away Wendy's "critical-thinking part." These people are pathetic, there really isn't another way to say it. And they should be put on academic probation if not expelled.

nxthompson @nxthompson

Lol, this is an amazing paragraph in the NY Mag story about all the ways that students are using AI to cheat their way through college. https://t.co/JrlCopvlFA https://t.co/3jMS55yhFs

At Columbia University, public safety officers counted on most students to heed their instructions to clear out of the occupied library. So people who are studious and compliant have to leave, while the antisocial agitators get to stay. That's what we call a perverse incentive.

I find myself in the odd position of accepting that *most* people, in order to live well, require social norms, firm guidelines, an imposed telos, while being myself on the side of the loners, the artistic freaks, hermit poets, desert monks, and philosophers committed unto death. https://t.co/0R4ozQPMfU

RT @hedgehogreview: A new book aims to free us from thinking about humanity’s origins. But we need to know where we come from as much as wh…

Some experts are now saying that it's actually not okay for an entire demographic of talented strivers to have its dreams ground into dust beneath a totalizing ideology's bootheel.

I have Harold Bloom to thank for introducing me to these extraordinary poems by D. H. Lawrence years ago.

Interintellect 🧭 @interintellect_

Explore D.H. Lawrence's lesser-known poetry, including "Shadows," "The Ship of Death," and "Bavarian Gentians," from Last Poems and Birds, Beasts and Flowers with @plfrnz. https://t.co/dC4RNsaEBC

Woe betide he who reads Faulkner's work aloud to the opposite sex.

C. Sandbatch @CSandbatch

@NotMeNotYouAlso Every time I have ever read from that book to a woman she has dumped in less than a month. Also you're a long ass way from home.