Tom White

the career begins not with ambition but with attention.

Sorry I was so glum. I’m in a cursed mood and can’t bear the human face.

Virginia Woolf

Letter to Ethel Smyth

10th February 1933

rage against the beige

Jason Koebler of the tech news site 404 Media believes the trend represents what he calls the “zombie internet”. The rise of slop, he says, has turned the social network into a space where “a mix of bots, humans and accounts that were once humans but aren’t any more mix together to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection... See more

“A poem will not stop a bullet. A novel cannot defuse a bomb. Not all our satirists are heroes.

But we are not helpless. Even after Orpheus was torn to pieces, his severed head, floating down the river Hebrus, went on singing, reminding us that the song is stronger than death.

We can sing the truth and name the liars, we can join in solidarity

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Uncertainty is our basic state of existence, not something to be got through to the certainty beyond.

the morass of maddening tasks that swallow modern life.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? — T.S. Eliot