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"The better we become acquainted with the world the more interested we are in leaving it. But once out of the world nothing but world seems to suffice. So we all become collectors of those things of the world that are least worldly, but also of those things out of the world that are hardest to distinguish from it. Our self-questionings become ( Read more... ) -
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Ozymandias -> Mending Wall
The two are one, in fact, even if Shelley is lone and level sands and Frost is apple orchard. -
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Really good shows: Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Leftovers, The Office (UK ( Read more... ) -
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Finally doing the very, very obviously right thing when you suddenly have nothing to lose isn't precisely heroic, but it's still nice to see. -
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Spicer is in over his head. Trump is a sick man and the product of abuse. Kushner has a giant silver spoon glued to his face. But Sessions is a bag of shit. Sacks are too classy for Sessions. He's a bag.
So more days like this please, life. -
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Were the earlier seasons of The Leftovers using bible stories as templates? The last one uses a lot.
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Finally got through season 1 of The Sopranos after trying for a literal decade. The finale was a mostly good episode. The others were not. That was also my opinion of Deadwood's first season, but this was much tougher going ( Read more... ) -
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"Funny how being humbled as often as I have hasn't lead to being humble," he said, assuming saying this would make it seem like he was humble enough to not think of himself as humble - and that the advertisement of his humiliations would make him seem like a person with an eventful and fascinating past. He also thought it was so cleverly phrased ( Read more... )
