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what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.comIn adulthood, finding community is really hard and requires effort. It tends to have cost attached to it (book clubs, cafes, bars, even now the silly little Eventbrite events specific to meet people)
The group’s unanimity is simply an echo of my selection criterion. It’s easy to forget how carefully pre-screened the members are, how epistemically groomed social media circles might be.
C Thi Nguyen • Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays
Is your romantic (monogamous) partner the biggest choice you make in life?
What this means for me is starting over with the stories. I have to re-vision them, publicly, all over again; I have to grope furtively into my imagination till I brush the curls of the stories’ salt-stiffened fur; I have to stumble and leap and generally make myself exceedingly vulnerable. But for an authentic encounter, this is the only way.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
on writing
The term deformation has multiple definitions in science. In the life of a well—a structure underground to access water—the process of deformation is often unseen on the surface. Pipe deformations—when a pipe becomes dented and distorted—can occur due to the conditions of a geographic location. “Wellbore deformation” events are often discovered... See more
Stories of Our Moral Deformation
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Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
vocabulary
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
A Guide to the Gothic
17 Pamela Gerrish Nunn (1987), Victorian W omen A rtists. London: The Women's Press, 45. 18 Deborah Cherry (1993), Painting Women. Victorian Women Artists, London: Routledge, 21 & 103