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Susan Sontag on letting go of her inhibitions and becoming a storyteller.
She also perfectly describes fiction’s capacity to teach about one’s self.
Renata Mosci Sanfourchesubstack.comThey are all other people’s children. Kids I don’t know and will never know. And still how keenly I want the world to be gentle with them, to unfold for them, to be careful and kind and bright with love. I hope their parents stay as they are tonight, hanging back just enough to let them explore the shore on their own. Present but not pressing.... See more
7 p.m. in L'Escala — Off Assignment
"[you fit into me]" by Margaret Atwood
you fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
you fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
Poets: January Newsletter
"To Be Alive" by Gregory Orr
To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but...
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?
To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but...
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?
Poets: January Newsletter
when a poet reaches out for ideal language to craft a poem, it is very much like trying to shape water or the wind: impossible; words are never perfect, and we seek to chase better ones. The love affair of the poet is a form of Eros, in the classical Greek sense: a desire shaped by lack.
Poets: January Newsletter
some micropoems strike me as being epiphanies without journeys: the work delivers some form of insight, but I read it having not enjoyed the journey towards that insight, and so come away less impacted than I want to be.
Poets: January Newsletter
Nonetheless, some short poems strike a balance of craft and epiphany—and the most successful, in my opinion, contain some sort of mystery. They reach for something spiritual, greater-than-us, grasping towards the cosmos on little legs.
Trust that as the year goes on, your clarity will arrive. As you collect, as you create, as you build; you are yourself created. And if anyone asks you to explain, say this:
Morgan Vogel • Stop Expressing Yourself and Put Your Damn Clothes On
In Gilles Lipovetsky’s The Empire of Fashion, he argues that fashion is not a superficial side effect of modern life but one of its main operating systems. Contrary to the idea that fashion controls people, Lipovetsky argues that fashion replaces social norms and rigidity with choice and liberalization. In essence, fashion is permissive, instead of... See more
Morgan Vogel • Stop Expressing Yourself and Put Your Damn Clothes On
The burnout of performing continues to fuel this normie trend however, it’s exhausting; to always have to be yourself. To think about who you are, what you are, why you are. I love philosophy, as you can hopefully tell, but my god is it insufferable to a certain point. Being “my best self” is really starting to cramp my style and take up far too... See more